"Be charmed by the flower-filled fields of Darling at this Provencal-styled guesthouse. Maison de L’amour deliciously decadent décor and peaceful surroundings provide a romantic escape in this quiet corner of the Western Cape." Woman & Home Magazine April 2012
Maison de L’amour offers the experience of staying in a private country residence more like home from home.
Maison de L'amour has a very romantic feel and offers three double guest bedrooms all with bathrooms en- suite.
New to the house is a double luxury room called The Panama room and a double Luxury room is located inside the main house. Both of these rooms have doors leading out into the garden and the small splash pool.
The Gardener's Cottage also opens out into the garden and pool, but it has a small separate entrance to come and go, not having to come into the main house.
Maison de L’amour is located at 21 Mount Pleasant Street in Darling. The setting of Maison de L’amour is decorated in a French Provence country style and overlooks a garden which is picturesque and tranquil where our guests will have their breakfast and can unwind and feel completely relaxed.
We now own our own restaurant and pub, only a couple of roads away, and within walking distance from the house. We do advise a table to be booked, as weekends we are very busy. Either on a Friday or a Saturday we have live music.
If it is romance on your mind, and a bit of privacy, we have a delightful upstairs area in the restaurant where you can be alone. Just remember to book.
You can check out the website and reviews on TripAdvisor or the link above on the BIG BROTHER RESTAURANT AND BAR
We are
situated in the heart of Darling, and we are within an easy reach of the famous
Darling winery’s, such being Cloof Wine Estate,
Darling Cellars, Groote Post, Ormonde Vineyards. Guests can
explore the little village on foot, browse through antiques and collectibles! In season we are within easy distance of the most beautiful
flowers in the flower season.
Maison
de Lamour is owned and run by Nina and Derek, a couple full of fun and
laughter, and love entertaining their guests.
What Darling has to offer:
We have National Parks, The Darling Wine Experience, Art Galleries, Golf Course, The Atlantic Ocean only 15 mins away, Good Country Cooking, West Coast Wine Route, Olive tasting, Cheese and Toffee tasting, and of course not forgetting our beautiful Wild Flowers.
For dinner: You can come and join us at our BIG BROTHER RESTAUANT 1910 The Old Forge. www.1910theoldforge.com
A Review from Brain Berkman Business Day June 2017
For cosy romance, Nina Monda and Derek Poole’s Maison de L’amour is a perfect bolt hole. They are wonderfully generous hosts and if the candles, lace brocade and festooned four-poster brass bed don’t tickle your fancy, then the white ostrich feather left on the double bed, with a note quoting Milan Kundera: "Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s very beautiful", might.
We stayed in the intimate Gardener’s Cottage, which has its own entrance and en suite separated from the room with pub-style swing doors shaped like angel’s wings. If you subscribe to the less-is-more school, this spot isn’t for you but, if you’re after a place where you’d like nothing more than to curl up in each other’s arms, read a great book and listen to the birds, this is recommended.
A delicious cooked breakfast is included in your stay. Ask Nina to make her yogurt and mascarpone breakfast sundae. Although we didn’t have dinner there (by prior arrangement only), if breakfast is anything to go by, it will be sensational.
Nina is well known in PR circles and as an upscale event co-ordinator and the decor at Maison de L’amour reflects this.
She has created a warmly welcoming space from antique and junk-shop finds — an old Victorian bath keeps a stash of firewood and it is likely there are more candelabra than on a Liberace stage.
The Honeymoon Suite in the main house has the largest bed, a two-person bath and toilet and basins that are open to the room. There is another interior room available.
Highlights include the decor, the large garden table shielded from the heat by a roof and white cotton curtains and garden that, come sunset, is transformed with candle-lit nooks and crannies aflame. But it is Nina, Derek, their team and the food that stand out.
The Poole's recently bought a 100-year-old barn adjacent to the Darling Sweet that they have plans to convert into a bar and restaurant. - Brian Berkman - Business Day Online
You can also book at one of the following: 1910 The Old Forge is 60 meters down the road, Marmalade Cat, and Ciao who are all within walking distance from Maison de L'amour. We can book all of these on your behalf before you arrive.
