Le Chateau Country Club ⭐️
The Le Chateau Country Club is the latest edition to the growing four sim Le Chateau Resort complex. As it’s a standalone area with its own group, and also hotel style suites, we’ve reviewed it separately.
Coming here will cost you a 2000L group joining fee, but that is money well spent.
You get access to a really well designed - and working - country club with a restaurant, golf course, tennis courts, swimming pool, hotel suites and a schedule of reglar live events. You also get into other parts of the complex, such as the Executive Club in the office tower.
As with the rest of the complex, owner and designer Victoire Sire Montagne has done an incredible job, and we recommend it highly.
All photos by Aria Christen (rights reserved), except for the Louis XV Suite.
Overall look and feel
The first thing to note is that the Country Club covers a whole sim. Meanwhile the suites are in skyboxes.
The club has a mixture between various different styles. As with the rest of Le Chateau, there is very much a 1980s theme.
Other than that, I’d describe it as Nice meets French Guiana (the overseas territory in South America) meets Florida. Then, some of the decor in the restaurant, as well as the two suites, is inspired by French Royal dynasties of the 18th and 19th centuries namely the Bonapartes and Bourbons.
But it works, and it all hangs together. It’s really imaginative. In fact, while there are other golf clubs and country clubs in SL, what has been done here is pretty unique. There is lots to do, and the facilities are spread out across the sim, so it doesn’t feel cramped.
Overall - 4.5 / 5
The rooms
We stayed in the Louis XV Suite, the other suite is the Napoleon III Suite.
You can book them from reception, and the cost is 1500L a night. In the Louis XV suite you get a bedroom, which is quite small, but with some amazing design details, and a bathroom.
There is also a quite innovative room service bot, where you can choose different room service styles from straightforward champagne to ‘narco’ (bundles of cash).
Overall - 4 /5
The facilities
This is where the Le Chateau Country Club really shines.
First of all, let’s talk about the Le Pompadour Restaurant. Aria & I actually had our anniversary dinner here, and we loved it.
In some SL restaurants the RP service can still be a bit hit and miss, but here it’s really well done. The food looks realistic, and the menu offers a good range of dishes without offering too much choice (again, a mistake some SL restaurants make).
The decor and ambience is super high end, this is definitely the kind of place you want to dress up for. Finally, the tables overlook the Golf Course. In that, it reminded me of some RL country clubs I have been to.
Then there is the golf course. You can rez clubs before the first hole along with a HUD that makes it simple for you to play. The different holes all have varying features and levels of difficulty and the whole thing feels pretty real.
Though we didn’t try them, the two sets of tennis courts also have rezzers where you can play tennis, while the swimming pool has loungers around the outside and separate swimming lanes.
Finally, the clubhouse has a bar and a gift shop where you can buy 1980s style tennis and golf gear.
Seriously impressive and well done
Overall - 5 / 5
Other considerations
Group membership is 2000L, but this also gives you access to the Plaza Office tower with luxury business lounges, and a conference room. Then there is another separate Executive Pool on the estate
Much like RL country clubs, there is a dress code in place. Swimwear is pemitted at the pools or designated areas. Otherwise the expectations are that you dress in either business attire, 80s Yuppy style outfts, or high end tennis or golf clothes.
Generally there are events every week with themed parties, and there’s a strong community within the wider resort. A lot of people now live there full time.
The club is ‘adult’, but again, much like in an RL Country Club, discretion is advised when it comes to non PG behaviour.
We did encounter a bit of lag.
Overall
A lot of places that Aria & I go to seem almost to be copies of each other (e.g. many beach resorts work in pretty much the same way). As with the rest of Le Chateau, the Country Club is really different. It’s imaginative, fun, really well laid out and designed and there is loads to do. Highly recommended.
