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41 rue Haute

Hôtel · Honfleur The Printed Home Rue Haute since 1893
Attic room under sloping pine boards, a long window at the gable end

Third floor, under the main roof

The Attic Rooms

Three rooms under the pine boards that the family put up in 1902.

These were the children's rooms when the printers lived here, and later a store for unsold almanacs. The roof was opened up and insulated in 2018, and the boards went back exactly where they came from.

Sleeps
Two
Size
18 to 22 m²
Bed
A double, 160 cm
Faces
Rue Haute and the estuary

Each room has a gable window at its end, set low because the people who first slept here were small. Sit on the window seat and you can see the tops of the harbour masts over the roofs opposite, and on a clear evening the lights of Le Havre across the water.

The ceiling slopes on both sides. You can stand up straight down the middle of the room, and the bed is placed so that you do not wake up under the low part. Tall guests usually prefer the Street Rooms, and the desk will say so if you ask.

Plan of an Attic Room: shower room by the door, the bed down the middle under the ridge, a desk below the skylight and the gable window at the far end. GABLE WINDOW BED, 160 CM DESK, SKYLIGHT LOW CEILING SHOWER DOOR
Between the dashed lines you can stand upright; outside them the roof comes down to the knee wall.

What is in the room

Getting there means three flights of the main stair, the last one narrow and turning. It is the climb people mention when they leave, and the view they mention first.

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