La Manade des Baumelles — Restaurant in Arles

The Manade des Baumelles is a traditional Carmarguese establishment for cattle breeding, which offers some newly renovated rooms and one apartment for overnight stays. It is located in the quite and picturesque back-country of Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer. Me and my boyfriend stayed here for three nights.||||Due to some confusion at our arrival we spent our first night in the Pandora Room. This is a basic room, but it was nice and clean, so we did not mind. The next two nights we spent in the stylishly furnished Garlan Apartment - a real highlight of our holiday. The apartment is located on the first floor of the building offering a great view over the Carmargue.||||As for the food - breakfast is included: specialties made of bull meat, freshly baked bread, cheese, home-made jam and fruits are delicious. The restaurant also serves lunch that has to be paid separately (but if you take the manade tour, it is included). The à la carte menu includes local specialties e.g. bull steak and is absolutely worth a try. The restaurant closes for dinner, so you either have to go grab something to eat in Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer or ask the really friendly and forthcoming staff for some cold cuts, vegetables or fruits ;-)||||Additionally to overnight accommodation, the Manade des Baumelles offers the opportunity for visitors and guests to take part in different activities related to the work with bulls and horses. We took the manade tour where Guillaume, the manadier, explained us a lot about raising bulls for the traditional Carmarguese bull fights. We also got to see the cattle herds and also Garlan - the retired star bull of the Manade whose statue is exposed in front of the Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer bull fighting arena. ||||We were very happy that we chose to stay at the manade and would recommend it to anyone who is visiting the Carmargue, to spend some...

The Manade des Baumelles is a traditional Carmarguese establishment for cattle breeding, which offers some newly renovated rooms and one apartment for overnight stays. It is located in the quite and picturesque back-country of Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer. Me and my boyfriend stayed here for three nights.||||Due to some confusion at our arrival we spent our first night in the Pandora Room. This is a basic room, but it was nice and clean, so we did not mind. The next two nights we spent in the stylishly furnished Garlan Apartment - a real highlight of our holiday. The apartment is located on the first floor of the building offering a great view over the Carmargue.||||As for the food - breakfast is included: specialties made of bull meat, freshly baked bread, cheese, home-made jam and fruits are delicious. The restaurant also serves lunch that has to be paid separately (but if you take the manade tour, it is included). The à la carte menu includes local specialties e.g. bull steak and is absolutely worth a try. The restaurant closes for dinner, so you either have to go grab something to eat in Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer or ask the really friendly and forthcoming staff for some cold cuts, vegetables or fruits ;-)||||Additionally to overnight accommodation, the Manade des Baumelles offers the opportunity for visitors and guests to take part in different activities related to the work with bulls and horses. We took the manade tour where Guillaume, the manadier, explained us a lot about raising bulls for the traditional Carmarguese bull fights. We also got to see the cattle herds and also Garlan - the retired star bull of the Manade whose statue is exposed in front of the Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer bull fighting arena. ||||We were very happy that we chose to stay at the manade and would recommend it to anyone who is visiting the Carmargue, to spend some...

We stayed one night with an induction of the life on the manade and lunch.||We were upgraded from the Pandora and Rodin rooms to the fantastic Garlan 2 beds gite (newly refurbished with Jacuzzi bath, air conditioning, lounge and kitchen.||The deco and furniture are made out of floated woods of the upmost quality.||The breakfast was a feast of bull charcuteries, homemade jams, fresh bread and viennoiserie and fresh fruits in plenty.||Then our host Guillaume gave us the induction. There were supposed to be other people with us, but they cancelled at the last minute.||The induction was only for the 3 of us, but Guillaume didn't mind. He did a fantastic job passing on his passionate knowledge of the manade and the bulls to us.||Then he took us on a ride thought the fields of bulls on a trailer attached to his tractor.||He explained the life of the bull from its birth to its death, as Camargue bulls are not killed in the corrida games (unlike the Spanish ones)||He has a real affection for his champions which shows in the care he gives them.||We ended our visite with a delicious lunch made of some of the Camargue specialities : carpaccio of bull, saucisson of bull, anchoiade with its raw veg for starters and a gardiane de taureau for main course, which is a delicious bull stew, served with the wine of the property.||Thanks again Guillaume for this unique...