A château as a venue
A château kept for your seminar, one hour from Paris
Built between 1858 and 1863, equipped to work in 2026.
The real question
Is a château a serious place to work?
It is the objection we hear most often, and it is a fair one. Plenty of châteaux open to companies are magnificent houses where you work badly: no screen, Wi-Fi that stops at the first thick wall, bedrooms that are freezing in February, and a meeting room that is really a dining room.
We took the problem from the other end. The building gives you something no meeting room can manufacture, the sense of being somewhere else from the moment you pass the gate. Everything else was brought up to the standard of a workplace: 75-inch touchscreen and 85-inch screens with wireless casting, video-conferencing, high-speed Wi-Fi across the whole estate including the grounds, and heated bedrooms with proper bathrooms.
The lounges
Three meeting rooms in the château, a plenary at the Pavillon
The Pulligny lounge takes 18 in a U, 27 at round tables and up to 30 theatre-style. The Dumas lounge takes 14 and the Monet lounge 10, which lets three breakout groups work in parallel without leaving the building.
For wider formats, the Pavillon du Parc and its 350 m² go up to 200 people facing a stage and 150 for a seated dinner. The detail of every room and every layout.
Sleeping on site
10 bedrooms, a bed for each
A château that does not sleep its guests forces a daily round trip to a hotel, and that is exactly where a group scatters. Here, 15 people sleep on the estate, each in their own bed, with towels provided. Dinner runs long, the conversation carries on, and the next morning's session starts on time.
A little history, not too much
Alexandre Dumas passed through
The château was built between 1858 and 1863 in the neo-Gothic style. Alexandre Dumas stayed here, the architect's book and the visitors' book both record it, and one of the lounges carries his name. The cedar in the grounds is 250 years old, a century older than the house.
We tell that story on the first evening, for whoever is interested, and we do not turn it into a programme. You are here to work, not to tour a monument. But people leave with the feeling of having been somewhere, which remains the best definition of a seminar that worked.
Questions about hiring the château
Can we have the whole château to ourselves?
It is the only formula we offer. The château, the Pavillon du Parc, the bedrooms and the grounds are kept for one group at a time, Monday to Friday.
What does it cost to hire a château for a seminar?
We charge per person rather than by the day: 170 € excl. VAT per person for a one-day meeting, 410 € for two days and one night, 590 € for three days and two nights, meals included, with a minimum spend for exclusive use of 2,000 € excl. VAT per event.
Is a château comfortable in winter?
Yes. The bedrooms are heated and so are the meeting lounges. A January or February seminar gets the grounds under frost and an estate nobody else comes to.
Is there Wi-Fi and are there screens in the rooms?
High-speed Wi-Fi across the whole estate, 75-inch touchscreen and 85-inch screens with wireless casting, a video-conferencing system and a whiteboard.
How far from Paris is the château?
One hour and ten minutes from La Défense and from central Paris by the A14 and the A13. By train, 45 minutes from Saint-Lazare to Vernon-Giverny, then 15 minutes of shuttle.
Do you host weddings too?
Yes, at weekends, which never conflicts with seminars because those run during the week. It is also what pays for the upkeep of a house this size.
See the château on paper first
Tell us your dates and your headcount: you get a costed proposal within 24 hours, with no commitment.