French term (edited): maisonnette en r�sidence

it seems the word maisonnette is used in english and refers to something fairly similar, ie a small house, a floor of a house as a whole, therefore i would leave it like that and it could be OK...couldn't it?

French term (edited): maisonnette en r�sidence

condos with full amenities - urban
cabin, well, admittedly it may be a more Canadian term :-)
But we do have them at nearly every campsite or provincial or national park

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(my profile pic, soon to change to reflect the season, shows my dogs and me at a cabin`s locale in Québec)

French term (edited): maisonnette en r�sidence

Another possibility often used in tourist brochures.
I agree that maisonnette is now commonly used as a substitute.

French term (edited): maisonnette en r�sidence

I know you've already got villas in the list, but I think villa complexes conveys a sense of lots of smaller villas close together, as I've experienced in Spain. Cottages, for me, are too rural, whilst maisonettes convey an image of council-type accommodation - or is that just me?!

French term (edited): maisonnette en r�sidence

I suspect the same distinction is being made in the French as in English here: a maisonette is probably a small 2-storey building --- like terraced [BE] / row [AE] houses.

I think you might be safest going for 'maisonettes in complex', to maintain the same ambiguity of meaning; I would avoid 'bungalow', as that clearly implies a single-storey building, which i feel is a lower likelihood here (or else they might have said 'pavillon') --- and do watch out for that faux ami of the 'bungalow' in French, won't you?! :-)

Personally, I would avoid any solutions that sound too specific about the style or construction...

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To respond more fully to Writeaway\'s very valid comment on the seeming illogicality of my giving a \'neutral\' to a suggestion above that bears some resemblance to my own suggestion:

Yes, I think that \'maisonette\' is an appropriate word to use, but I would disagree with Tradl\'s definition of the word: traditionally, in BE at least, \'maisonette\' was reserved for an apartment that extended over more than one floor --- what is now, in AE at least, I believe, referred to as a duplex or split-level apartment.

In my experience, in BE, it is NOT used to refer to EITHER a small house OR a flat that occupied one whole floor of a house; the usage is quite specific, as I have stated. Here\'s the relevant definition from OED:

A part of a residential building which is occupied separately, usu. on more than one floor.

Also, I disagree with the use of the weak word \'group\' to translate \'résidence\', with all the positive connotations that has.

My understanding of the original text would be that the word \'maisonnette\' has been used quite specifically to differentiate from a villa or pavillon or bungalow (all more usually single-storey), and is referring to the kind of small 2-storey \'housing units\' often found in such holiday locations.