Practical info

Check-in is between 5 and 8 pm, so you have time to settle in before dark. Check-out is before 11 am. In summer, when the sun sets late, we suggest arriving around 7 pm.

The (fictional) site is a few minutes from Sault, in the Vaucluse, at the end of a drivable dirt track. Allow about an hour's drive from Avignon or Carpentras. There is no public transport to the site: plan on a car, or a taxi from the station.

Warm clothes, even in summer: at more than 700 metres, the nights are cool. A red-light head torch (we lend them), a swimsuit for the Nordic bath and good shoes for walking in the garrigue.

The Sault plateau has many clear nights, but none is guaranteed. If the sky is overcast during a telescope evening, it becomes an indoor star-chart workshop, and you can move the observing to another night of your stay.

The nights around new moon are the darkest: that is when the Milky Way shows best. The booking calendar shows the phase of the Moon for every night. The full moon has its charm too: it is the best time to observe… the Moon.

Your eyes take about twenty minutes to adapt to the dark, and a white light is enough to lose it all. Red light disturbs that adaptation much less. On the site, outdoor lighting is kept to a minimum and pointed at the ground.

Yes, in the Observatory Dome (one child) and the Oak Dome (two children). The bubbles are designed for two adults.

No. The bubbles and domes are too small, and wildlife crosses the site at night.

The Oak Dome is on one level, reached from the car park by a firm path. The bubbles stand on terraces, with a few steps. Write to us before booking so we can talk it through.

No. Nuits de Provence is a demonstration website: the place, the prices, the availability and the reviews are made up. The booking flow goes all the way through, then tells you that nothing was booked.