History of the Bassin House
The charm of Cap-Ferret
The F.BEILLARD house (grocery store, central café) was created in the 1920s by a grass resin collector, Jean known as Achille Beillard, from the Landes, and his wife Francine, from the Basque Country, also a resin collector. It was taken over by their son Georges and his wife Hyacinthe; it was the sports café. The establishment probably owes its name, Le Bayonne, which she undoubtedly chose in memory of her origins.
The room was transformed into a cinema and then a nightclub.
If in the 1920s, one didn't get bored at Claouey, nor at Canon, Cap-Ferret was not left out: people danced at Bayonne, at the Forestière, at the Hôtel des Pins, at the Buissonnière, at the Pointe, carnival parades were organized from the Bayonne...
Bayonne becomes a local reference
In the pure local style of the village, with its cinema "Le moderne"!
The hotel restaurant was operated during the 1970s-90s by Eric, Jean-Marc Roland. In the 1980s, in place of the Cinema, the nightclub Le Mimbeau club was created in the left wing (with Messa as the first disc jockey).
In 1992 the establishment was taken over and transformed without any major fault of taste, but saddled with an American name "Le Show-Bizz", arousing strong disapproval which the owners took into account. It will become " l'Hotel d'Arguin ".
The Modern - Cinema at "Bayonne"
In the 70s and 80s, Bayonne was a key location in the life of the peninsula with its famous Le Moderne cinema. Here is a program of films from the summer of 1974.
The Bassin House since 1994
The new owners completely restructured the establishment in 1994 into a charming hotel, a "bistro" restaurant and a "colonial" bar, the Tchanqué.
“Cap-Ferret: magical House of the Basin”
G. PUDLOWSKI's blog, "Feet in the dish"
This charming inn is still the best-kept secret in Le Ferret. Even if the secret is a little outdated. We knew it at its beginnings, in 1998, created in place of an old-fashioned but charming hotel ("the Bayonne") right next to the lighthouse and the oyster-farming district by the Jouinau family, aesthetes, crazy about decoration, who had made it a love nest. The rooms were sometimes small, the place has grown and become more beautiful, with the addition of an annex house, with its balcony, its wisteria...
The press is talking about it...
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