Our villa accommodation is situated approximately 500m from the beach which offers 4 kilometers of fine, clean sand with patrolled bathing areas during the season as well as beach activities such as sailing, volleyball, swings and zip-wire to entertain children. To ensure cleanliness dogs are not allowed on the beach.
At the mouth of the river Orb you will find Valras Plage harbour, a safe haven for small leisure and commercial craft. Around the harbour and along the promenade in Valras are many fine bars and restaurants. These can offer a full range from morning coffee, lunch of gallettes or crepes, ice creams, moules frites or just about anything else you might fancy for lunch or evening meal. Some also have live music during the evening. While in the harbour area why not sample one of the 70+ flavours of ice-cream from the parlour there.
Various seasonal excursions are available from the harbour either for fishing or sight seeing.
There is also an open air market on Monday and Friday mornings, at the Theatre de Mer near the harbour in the summer or town centre off-season, offering local food produce (vegetables, sausage, cheese etc.) as well as the local brightly coloured Mediteranean ceramics and other general homewares.
Situated at the other end of the beach about 8 minutes' walk from the villa is the casino which, as well as one arm bandits offers poker, roulette and black-jack. On Saturday evenings during the season, and less regularly out of season, it hosts regular cabaret spectaculars which are accompanied by diner.
In town you will find the usual selection of shops, restaurants, banks (with ATMs), an internet café, a post-office and a well staffed tourist office which can give advice on local attractions and activities. See their web-site http://www.valras-plage.net. The fish market is also located in town and operates in the late afternons with the fresh catch.
As well as the local shops in the town Valras Plage, the area is serviced by a large Hyper-U at Sérignan, just 2 mins drive out of the town towards Beziers.
