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About Vacation Rentals in “Etretat”

Étretat, best known for its alabaster cliffs, is located on the coast of the Pays de Caux area of France. Originally, the town was simply a pleasure resort in a great setting with beautiful architecture. Étretat features tunnels and arches including a famous natural arch that can be recognized in several brochures for tourists staying in Étretat vacation rentals. Old wooden market halles take up the main square of Étretat’s central place Foch, where the ground floor were converted to souvenir shops and the beams of the balcony and roof are bare and ancient. Étretat's tourist office is alongside the main road through the centre of town, on place M.-Guillard. Four Étretat vacation rentals, including the picturesque Hôtel la Résidence, are bunched onto the corners of place Foch, and are all significantly cheaper than the grand sea-view Étretat holiday rentals.

Get out of your Étretat holiday condo and see two of the three famous arches, the Porte d'Aval and the Porte d'Amont, which can be seen from town when you are on vacation in Étretat. The Manneporte is the third arch which can not be seen from the town. The Porte d’Aval has a walk leading up the crumbling side of the cliff, with lush lawns and pastures on the inland side and German fortifications on the shore side. You can see farther rock formations and possibly even Le Havre from the windswept top. Porte d’Amont, the other arch seen from the town and which Maupassant compared to an elephant dipping its trunk into the ocean, portrays an idyllic rural scene, with a light trail twisting up the green hillside to the little chapel of Notre-Dame.

Vacations in Étretat are not complete without a visit to the GR 21, a long-distance hiking path that passes through town and The White Bird (L'Oiseau Blanc) monument. Étretat is known as the last place in France from which the 1927 biplane was seen after two French WWI heroes attempted to make the first non-stop flight from Paris to New York. The plane disappeared somewhere over the Atlantic creating what is now considered one of the great unexplained mysteries of aviation.