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Escapade Nordique "water front sur le bord de l'eau
Our home is newly built home spacious and comfortable, all in a peaceful location with amazing views. Its close to the village grocery store and gas station. There is a covered ice rink, toboggan hill, and ski hill in community called Mont Video. Youâll love the lakefront access, the scenery provides hours of delight. The heated floor will enhance your physical comfort and if you are looking for tranquility and soundproofing this is the place for you. Excellent reviews from guests, solo adventurers, business travellers. A family's delight and tons of stuff to do with kids.
We liked the house and the surrounding a lot. We had lot of fun in the snow, enjoyed the direct access to the lake, the huge sled track in La Corne, the wonderful skating trail in Val d'Or and the possibilities for cross country skiing in Amos.
The hosts were contactable at any time and answered all our questions. They set up a Christmas Tree for us, which was really great.
The house is new and perfect for 4. We were a bit irritated at the beginning that there was so much stuff left in the house (e.g. food, clothes), but we took the place we needed and everything was perfect.
Thanks for hosting us!!!
We really enjoy our time at the Escapade Nordique. This house is beautiful. In winter accessibility to the lake is pretty hard if you don't have a skidoo. that was the only , only down thing. Thank you so much.
Johanne , Maurice, Clement and Annie
The house itself is very nicely laid out and equipped, and is situated on - best guess - a couple acres of partially wooded land that backs up to the sloped and rocky shoreline of Lake LaMotte.
We lacked for nothing inside the house - it has all the conveniences of home. We happened to be visiting over several days that from all accounts were a bit unusually hot and humid, and the whole-house ventilation system did a pretty good job of keeping the inside temp in check.
The outside accommodations - a screened gazebo and large gas BBQ grill - were very nice, and we used both extensively. The one suggested addition for outside I would offer is a camping-style fire ring or one of those raised wood-burning fire "pits." Nothing beats sitting around a campfire (yes, the days we were visiting were pretty hot, but at night it cooled down nicely).
We very much enjoyed the Abitibi-Temiscamingue area and the outdoor opportunities it afforded. We kayaked and swam/snorkeled in L. LaMotte (right off the back property), explored the nearby cities of Val D'or and Amos, had a wonderful experience visiting a wildlife rehabilitation and education facility just East of Amos, hiked in a beautiful National Park Southwest of Amos and bicycled along the gravel road where Escapade Nordique is located, as well as in/around the close village of LaCorne. If we'd had some additional time I would have liked to kayak the numerous smallish rivers that one crosses when driving on nearby Route 111, and which I assume flow into L. LaMotte. I'm not sure, though, how accessible these are for "putting in."
In short, we found Escapade Nordique a very comfortable "base camp" for our outdoor activity-oriented 4-5 day exploration of a charming piece of Canada that we'd love to return to someday.
We spent a late August week here and it was every bit as relaxing as we had hoped. The house was wonderful, the yard and setting were quiet and virtually insect free, and while I typically find that I have forgotten to bring some little thing along, this wasn't a problem here because everything one could imagine needing was already there to be easily found. A tip of the hat to the owners for creating this wonderful space that we enjoyed very much.