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100% of the hotel’s electricity comes from renewable energy sources. Green petrol and low consumption light bulbs are used and each room is fitted with a key card which stops the electrical supply (except to the plugs marked by red spots, which allow you to re-charge mobiles and cameras) when you leave the room.
The whole park around our Poitou-Charente hotel has been graded LPO (League for bird protection) sanctuary. The hotel takes care to use only environmentally friendly products.
In order to conserve water there are discharge limits on valves, shower heads and flushes in all rooms. Meals are prepared using organic products from the eco-hotel’s vegetable gardens and farms in the neighbourhood. For recycling, our Poitou-Charente hotel uses a selective waste sorting system in the town and has a dedicated composting area in the garden. In addition the hotel use recycled paper and biodegradable cleaning products and have a sustainable purchasing policy.
We have referenced 15 food suppliers at an average distance of 22km from the hotel. Most of them are organic; the others use chemicals responsibly (agriculture raisonnée). Several suppliers also have a social aim (reinsertion) or work with the local farm school. We have a wide range of local drinks, and suggest organic aperitifs from the region, like Cognac or Pineau des Charentes.
Our suppliers of goods and services accompany us in our approach by trying to improve their environmental performance and are happy to help us teaching our staff and looking for innovative products with a high environmental performance. In return, we help them in their R&D activities, by testing their new products.
We help our guests to organise their stay, by recommending natural and touristic local sites and helping them to pick the most effective itinerary: for example, Saint Savin abbey and the Fresco Valley, classified UNESCO World Heritage, located 20km away from the hotel. We also recommend the visit of our local suppliers to our guests.
We are happy to sensitize local community to environmental issues whenever we can. In the frame of the National Waste Reduction Week (which took place from October 9th to the 15th 2006), we welcome pupils from both primary schools in the village, with a double aim:
- Raising children awareness about waste issues, by conducting edutainment activities on selective sorting.
- Accompany the setting up of the selective organic waste sorting at Lussac Les Châteaux.
- We also organized a projection of the film of Al Gore "An inconvenient truth", followed by a debate around responsible purchases, animated by a environmental journalist.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
