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This lovingly restored former priory does not reveal its age until you get inside. Some of the comfortable bedrooms are in the building next door. In the smart dining room, the owner Stéphane Pugnat’s food is a highlight.

This classically proportioned town house is an efficiently run bed-and-breakfast. Rooms vary in size, but are all decorated in quite good taste with, for the most part, larger-than-average bathrooms. Guests can use the smart, light, drawing room and the garden. There is off-street parking.

The 15th-century auberge is one of a handful of hotels at the foot of Mont St-Michel and close to the causeway (useful, since all cars have to be left outside its walls). There is a large, busy restaurant at street level, while on the first floor, a pleasantly rustic calm takes over.

Honfleur’s latest hotel is an old building with a contemporary interior: quarry-tiled floors, pale cream walls, black-and-white photographs; and in the breakfast room, black iron tables, black wicker chairs and modern lighting. Bedrooms, in a separate building across a courtyard, are very quiet.

An inexpensive, endearing hotel overlooking a quiet, tree-filled square. The owner is an artist; her paintings and sculptures decorate the ground floor, while the bedrooms are being redecorated in bright colours with her frescoes on the ceilings.

This handsome old stone-built inn has a highly recommended restaurant. In summer, meals are served in the attractive garden. There is a fine view from the front across wooded countryside and park.

This 17th-century coaching inn in the centre of Vernon started life as a manor house of the count of Evreux. Its excellent restaurant, Le Relais Normand, has a romantic courtyard where you can dine in summer. The pleasant rooms have a pleasingly rustic feel.

This long-established hostelry on the banks of the Iton has characterful bedrooms, and a welcoming restaurant.

A traditional stone-built inn in the centre of this unspoilt market town.

This 17th-century relais de poste has an excellent restaurant and brasserie, a fine wood-panelled salon, and bedrooms that blend old with new.