When a vestibule becomes a bedroom

One of the potential extra bedrooms at Les Sources de Caudalie is a vestibule. The other is a boudoir. The hotel retains those names in its description of the Au Cœur des Sources apartment, even while offering them as supplementary sleeping places. They keep another use in view: the room has an identity before the bed arrives. The apartment’s published configuration.

That is a more revealing form of capacity than a bare bedroom count. The apartment has two principal bedrooms with bathrooms and is offered for four adults and two children. Its supplementary single-bed spaces extend that arrangement; they do not establish four equivalent en-suite rooms. A vestibule and a boudoir becoming bedrooms describe a change of function within a particular plan.

Sleep claims time as well as floor area. A room given over to a bed may need to withdraw from its other uses for the night. The added capacity is therefore an exchange: an existing space acquires a new purpose. The published material does not establish this apartment’s precise circulation or sound separation, but its room names keep that exchange visible.

The April 2025 renovation release credits Alice Tourbier and Auguri Studio’s Giovanna de Bosredon. It places a living room in the middle, with the principal sleeping accommodation on either side, a boudoir associated with one bedroom and a hallway beside the other. The composition retains different room roles around a common interior. April 2025 release.

That common room matters when ancillary spaces become bedrooms. It remains a place principally described for being together. The apartment expands its sleeping provision without turning every named room into a sleeping unit.

Its relation to the hotel is equally specific. The apartment sits above reception, with its own entrance from the gardens. A separate point of arrival and a position at the centre of hotel activity coexist. Inside, the published provision includes a dining area and a tea corner with microwave and minibar, alongside access to room service. These are precise components of a domestic arrangement supported by a hotel; they need not be enlarged into the specification of an independent house.

The names matter because a room’s possible uses do not all remain intact when they are activated. Converting a boudoir or vestibule for sleep may be exactly what a particular party wants. It is still a conversion, with a different claim on the space. A larger occupancy figure records the gain. The words “boudoir” and “vestibule” keep the exchange visible.