The 12 best destinations in France to disconnect

The right to disconnect is not just a beautiful formula! To make it concrete, we have selected for you the top 15 destinations in France to disconnect.

Can't you finish a conversation with your spouse without having to respond to a professional call? You are no longer looking at your children in the eyes, but are absorbed by your mobile phone screen? You can’t spend a meal without taking a picture of what you eat and post it on Instagram? You're in an earthquake if you don't answer an email, even in the weekend? Symptoms are clear, the diagnosis is uncalled: you are overworked and you suffer from digital addict ! We prescribe you a minimum three-day digital detox cure, urgently!

Are you ready to try the adventure of the disconnection? That's good! However, one thing blurs you. What are these strange and exotic places where it is still possible, today, to disconnect? If you don’t want to land at the bottom of the Amazon forest, exile yourself in the most remote corners of the Amazon forest altiplano Bolivian or turning to asceticism, what remains as options? Don’t worry, no need to do fifteen hours of aeroplane or eight days of walking to connect with yourself! There are many sites around France, perhaps close to you, that offer you a digital detox experience.

Ready to store your phone in your drawer and discover the best destinations in France to disconnect? There are for all tastes and prices. Pack your bags!

1. The Castle of the Gravière

When the grape replaces the screens. What if you lose in the middle of the vineyards could cure you? Located between Bordeaux and the Atlantic coast, south of the Gironde estuary, in the heart of the Médoc, this guest house is perfectly suited to a digital detox cure. On the programme of your stay: evaluation by coaches, board games, walks, tastings, massages or swimming pool, all in a pleasant setting and surrounded by a serious and positive team.

Rates : from € 210 per person for 3 days and 2 nights, without the cost of accommodation or restoration.

2. The Westin Hotel in Paris

Disconnect to Paris, do you think it's impossible? Get out of here! Since 2014, the famous The Westin Paris-Vendôme hotel has invited guests digital addicts like you to offer a window of disconnection. In order to help you resist temptation, you are required to deposit all gadgets, objects of your addiction in the hotel’s safe. Don't worry, everything is designed to make you forget your joujoux!

Prepare to be a subscriber! Drop your Skype session against a 30-minute irritating massage. Drop on the basket of pastries and sweets deposited in your room! Displace yourself in the hotel’s gym, in a complete New Balance outfit, lent by the hotel. Forget your emails and prefer reading a magazine in paper format.

Rates : from 450 € per night.

3. The islands of Morbihan

To live the experience of digital detox, so do not do things halfway! Out of Reach offers you to spend a day and a very special night by landing on a sailing ship. Enjoy pure air and salt water for nearly forty-eight hours and discover islands like Grois, Belle-Île, Houat or Hoëdic. The program: fishing, diving, navigation initiation, and disconnection! Beware you may not want to find your smartphone again, after having tasted silence and a life without attachment!

Rates : 205 € per person, in summer.

4. Vichy Célestins Spa Hotel

Vichy Spa has a digital detox formula since 2014. The hotel rooms are devoid of screens and offer coaching sessions to help overworked people preserve their health. You want to watch the news or a football game? Forget it! Go for a relaxing treatment or a relaxing moment on Zen music background. To best target your needs, you will be invited to meet a doctor and a nutritionist.

Rates : from 1 035 € per person, for 3 days and 3 nights. From 786 € without accommodation or restoration.

5. The mas de la Fouque, in Camargue

Go find the sun for your disconnection! Enjoy the superb setting of this exceptional place and give up. On the programme: gastronomic meals, two treatments, two fitness sessions, and unlimited access to the pool, jacuzzi, fitness room, sauna, ice stunt, etc.

Rates : Low Season : from 1 500 € for two people ; High season: from €1,620 for two people.

6. Riell Castle, in the Pyrenees

If you want to live your disconnection as you hear, without a program or a frame, come and spend a weekend at Riell Castle. The temptation will not be too strong to throw you on your phone or computer, because no network passes around! Once you enter this valley of Catalonia, you will be forced to cut! Rest in this enchanting setting and enjoy these few hours where you will do something foreign: nothing!

Rates : The "Study Spa and Relaxation" formula is 502 € per person for one night, a dinner, a breakfast, a 45 min modelling and access to the baths and the pool.

7. The cottages of the Grand Reflets, in the territory of Belfort

A hut, a pond, a natural reserve, calm, nature and you. You, without your screens! This is the description of what awaits you if you choose to spend a night or a few days in this unusual place, quite conducive to a digital detox. Many activities are offered: massages, yoga classes, hikes, cycling or horseback rides, cultural excursions, etc. Copious food baskets will make you forget your emails and posts!

Rates : from 160 € for a night in floating hut or in trees. Breakfast included. Various activities and benefits not included in the price.

8. The estate of Rochevilaine, in the Morbihan

Located on the coast is Morbihanese, this superb estate combines luxury, calm and character. All conditions are met so that your daily life digital addict is only a distant memory: the sea a few meters away, a refined cuisine, a balneotherapy center available, high-end comfort, a team available, etc.

Rates : from 1 618 € per person for 4 days and 4 nights, in full board, with twelve treatments included (Detox form). From 273 € per person, for one night, SPA package not included.

9. Le Moulin de Beltaine, in the Morbihan

Would you like to cut off world and technology? The Moulin de Beltaine is an ideal place. Hotel point, location. You will be alone or with the person of your choice, in a small hut, and enjoy all the strengths of the site. Located twenty-five minutes from Guingamp, on the Côte de Granit Rose, the estate also houses a naturopathy firm that will give you the best advice in nutrition and well-being. You can also enjoy massages or follow a detox fast.

Rates : For two people, 455 € per week in low season; 679 € in high season. Book at least two nights. Care and consultations of naturopathy not included.

10. The Bagnères de Bigorre baths in the Hautes Pyrenees.

Who doesn't know the Bigorre Bagnères? You? Make a stone two strokes and discover this region on the occasion of a digital detox cure. It is one of the best destinations in France to disconnect. The site combines elegant architecture, efficient equipment, ideal location and, cherry on the cake, the team offers a formula entirely dedicated to disconnection. Indeed, the "free hands week" will make you forget the technology! Ten treatments are on the program: relaxation, massage, watsu , gym, thermal bath, creative workshop, psychological interviews, etc.

Rates : The formula is 199 € per person, without accommodation. Between 371 and 717 € per person, with accommodation.

11. Relax Oceane Center, Morbihan

Don’t you feel like living the experience of digital detox solo? Relax Oceane offers break-out stays in small groups, on the island of Arz, Berder or on the seven islands. If you register, you commit to come without tablet, computer or mobile phone. This will allow you to focus on your yoga or meditation sessions.

Rates : from 90 € per day to 500 € for 4 days and 3 nights. From May to August.

12. And many other destinations

If you have not yet found your happiness among the eleven previous destinations, you should know that many people surf on the wave of disconnection. It will be easy to cut you from this infernal world by booking a chalet in the Cevennes, a cabanon in Corsica, a mill in Charente, a barn on the Spanish border, or any other accommodation that will offer you the ideal conditions to refocus and rediscover the essentials.

Ready to disconnect? You only have to choose from one of these destinations!