Gîtes & cottages · Calais
Best Gites and Cottage Stays in Calais
Gites and cottage stays in Calais are thin on the ground, and anyone planning a Pas-de-Calais holiday around a stone farmhouse should look inland towards the Caps et Marais d'Opale rather than at the port itself. Within the town, one address carries the idea: Logis Hotel and Restaurant Le Cottage on rue de Tunis, a Logis property with a garden, a sun terrace and a kitchen serving regional cooking. It sits eight hundred metres from the town centre and nine kilometres from the chalk headland of Cap Blanc-Nez, on the edge of the Caps et Marais d'Opale regional park where the true cottage stock of the region begins.
Calais is a port with a countryside behind it, and the gap between the two is smaller than it looks. Nine kilometres west, the Parc naturel regional des Caps et Marais d'Opale begins at Cap Blanc-Nez, and the villages there hold the region's real self-catering stock. The town itself stays practical: free buses, an A16 junction at the edge of the built-up area, and hotels shaped by the traffic. The Cottage sits on that boundary, close enough to both to be useful.
Updated July 25, 2026
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Stays in Calais
Where does the cottage idea actually live on this part of the Opal Coast? Mostly outside Calais, in the villages behind the Deux Caps where the farm buildings survived the war. Inside the town the closest equivalent is a family-run Logis with its own garden, terrace and dining room, which delivers the two things travellers usually want from a gite: space that is not a corridor, and food cooked on site. What it does not deliver is a kitchen of your own.
In the Pas-de-Calais the Logis network is the closest thing a town centre offers to a country address, and Le Cottage on rue de Tunis is the Calais example. It stands eight hundred metres from the town centre and from Calais-Ville station, nine kilometres from Cap Blanc-Nez, with free WiFi throughout. Rooms carry a simple decor with satellite television, tea and coffee making facilities and a private bathroom. Regional cuisine and a buffet breakfast are served daily in a spacious dining area or out on the terrace, and there is a bar and a 24-hour front desk with a free newspaper.
Its practical geography suits the Opal Coast rather than the town alone. The property sits three hundred metres from exit 43 of the A16 and one kilometre from the Eurotunnel terminal exit, with free parking under video surveillance, which makes it a natural first or last night for anyone driving the coast road towards Wissant and the Deux Caps. It accepts pets and lists family rooms, a garden, a sun terrace and facilities for disabled guests, and the dining room means arrivals after dark are not left hunting for a table in the centre.
A second Calais address earns a mention for anyone set on self-catering along this coast. Hotel Residence du Golf on the Digue Gaston Berthe fits its rooms with a microwave, a fridge and an electric hotplate, sleeps up to four, and can hire out crockery and cooking equipment for an extra charge. It is a seafront residence rather than a cottage, and the difference matters, but it is the only address in Calais where guests can genuinely cook. Travellers wanting stone walls and a garden gate will do better in the villages behind Cap Blanc-Nez.
A traveler's take
Drivers touring the Opal Coast get the most from Le Cottage, which works as a comfortable staging post between the A16 and the cliffs at Cap Blanc-Nez, with parking, a garden and a dining room that removes the evening decision. Families and pet owners are well served too. The honest limitation is straightforward: this is a hotel with cottage character, not a gite, and nobody staying here will be cooking their own dinner.
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Local tips
- 1Book the dining room at Le Cottage for the evening you arrive, the kitchen serves regional cooking and the alternative is driving back into the centre.
- 2Ask for a room facing the garden rather than rue de Tunis, the property sits three hundred metres from an A16 junction and the road side is busier.
- 3Drive out to Cap Blanc-Nez the next morning, it is nine kilometres away and the chalk cliffs mark the start of the Caps et Marais d'Opale park.
- 4Choose Hotel Residence du Golf instead if you genuinely need to cook, its rooms carry a hotplate, microwave and fridge, and equipment can be hired.
- 5Use the free video-surveilled parking at Le Cottage for an early shuttle, the Eurotunnel terminal exit is one kilometre from the property.
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Frequently asked questions
Gîtes & cottages · Calais
Not in the town itself. Calais is a port with hotel stock built around crossings, and the genuine gite country of the Pas-de-Calais lies inland and west, in the villages of the Caps et Marais d'Opale behind Cap Blanc-Nez and Wissant.