The Dutch owners, Wilco and Sanne.
We welcome every guest to Château Doré les Tours as a friend. After all, the château is our family home. We live here with our two cats, Vos (Loup) and Wolf (Renard).
In 2021, we sold our house in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to completely change our lives and move to the French countryside to restore our magnificent Château Doré les Tours.
Since September 2021, we have renovated and restored two gîtes as spacious, independent holiday homes and our private residence on the ground floor of the château.
We carried out most of the renovation work ourselves, occasionally with the much-appreciated help of our loved ones.
We opened the gîtes in June and September 2024 after extensive renovations.
Our journey here to the château has opened many doors and created incredible adventures. For example, all the friends we’ve met, the tours, the publicity, and the support from the local community. And we were picked up by a private channel in the Netherlands for a new series following Dutch people who bought a beautiful house in France and renovated it all themselves. We’re waiting for the broadcasts to start at the end of 2025. The filming has been quite an adventure.
We have so many projects planned for our house, and you can follow the renovations on our Instagram page. Or, of course, you can come and see it all in person by booking a stay with us.