The hotel

The 16th-century Château des Ducs de Joyeuse is a four-star hotel with 34 air-conditioned rooms across five categories: Renaissance Standard, Chevalier Comfort, Family Duplex, Superior, and Prestige. Rooms are non-smoking and have private bathrooms. Views vary by room and may include the courtyard, garden, park, Aude River, or old village. The château has a restaurant, bar, wine cellar and local-products shop, reception and event spaces, and a coworking room with computer equipment. The grounds include a heated outdoor pool open May to October, tennis court, pétanque court, children's play area and access to the river. A closed parking area, three electric-vehicle charging points, bicycle garage and bicycles by reservation are available.