• 12 fully equipped meeting rooms for 4 to 120 persons, • 4 of which are boardrooms • 5 flexible rooms • 1 39-seat auditorium • 8 lounges • 5 dining rooms, one of which can be used to have lunch in and hold meetings without having to change rooms • 1 80m² covered courtyard with a beautiful Art Deco style staircase • 1 90m² cocktail room • 1 100m² press conference room with en-suite lounge • Bars, lounges and a business corner on each floor • 3 metro stations (Villiers, Monceau and Courcelles) and 4 car parks (Villiers, Bergson, Etoile-Hoche and Haussmann-Berri) to make access for your participants easy.
To find out more or to book : Châteauform’ “sur le pouce” Floriane Chanalet-Quercy on +33 1 40 74 50 32 or by email fchanaletquercy@chateauform.com lepouce@chateauform.com
After France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and Belgium, Châteauform’ continues to show you around Europe with its first house in Germany : The Schloss Ahrenthal castle near Cologne. With 60 rooms, 6 meeting rooms (including 1 auditorium and 1 boardroom) and 9 syndicate rooms, this castle which dates back to the middle ages is located in the heart of the Rhineland forest, close to the Rhine and the Rhineland vineyards. Steeped in nature, the castle is surrounded by moats deep in the heart of a park where you can enjoy forest walks, jogging, mountain biking, Nordic Walking, archery or even horse riding. And from Linz on the Rhine, take your participants on a cruise where they’ll discover one of Germany’s most wine-rich regions. The castle is 35 minutes from Cologne-Bonn International Airport and 60 minutes from Frankfurt airport. It will be welcoming its first participants in autumn/winter 2010. To find out more or to book, contact one of our seminar advisors on +33 1 30 28 69 69 or by email contact@chateauform.com
It is just half an hour from the hustle and bustle of Paris and the Roissy CDG and Orly airports, and as the crow flies, it’s only 5 minutes from Marne la Vallée ! The château’s setting evokes the finery of the age of enlightenment - a “human scale Versailles which is warm and welcoming. This fabulous site has 66 rooms, a large number of discretely furnished meeting areas with high tech facilities, and beautiful period lounges. Steeped in history, the chateau is the perfect setting for inspiring changes in perspective, innovation and reflection, and to ensure your seminar is a resounding success. The Château de Guermantes
When moments of informal conversation and relaxation combine with a location that’s rich in history and culture… For your breaks in between activities, to meet up at the end of the day before sitting down to eat, to finish the evening together and to continue putting the world to rights…A warm welcome in the château’s lounges is guaranteed where their interior designs will take you back to another era. In the pavilions which surround the château, the walls of the Chambre Violle have been magnificently decorated and preserved since 1633. The Chambre à l’italienne, with its dome and its frescos, dates back to 1645. Guermantes was home to a young Louis XIV during the French civil war : in the Salon du Roi, you can take a look at the two portraits that Louis XV offered the chateau as a token of his gratitude. One of himself, and one of Marie Leczynska, Princess of Poland who later became Queen of France. The beauty of a typically French art of living will be with you at all times during your seminar. How can you resist the charm of the “Belle Inutile” ? This 31 metre-long gallery was designed based on the famous hall of mirrors in Versailles ! Listed as a historic monument, the Belle Inutile is a fantastic sight. With its beautiful ceiling painted by Andrieu, student and colleague of Delacroix, the hall can be fitted out according to your needs. Go from one lounge to the next as and when you please to unwind ; plus, there’s a fantastic reception room for up to 150 people ; it can even be turned into a plenary room for 100 participants if you wish !
81 hectares of greenery to inspire you The heritage of Guermantes - it’s also the haven of peace that surrounds the château. The listed gardens designed by André Le Nôtre and his park with its grand lawns, Medicis vases, rose-lined paths and bucolic undergrowth. Time for a “walk and talk” - your participants will get the chance to recharge their batteries along the forest paths around the 81 hectares where freshwater streams run through. In the fully equipped multi-sports area, your teams can battle it out in a volley ball or five-a-side football tournament. By the side of the large lake, you could organise an informal meeting on the grass overlooking the chateau’s admirable brick and stone facade. A château like a closely guarded jewel for inspiring seminars in historic surroundings.
Ideal to take care of itself, this haven of serenity Zen was also intended as a source of conviviality and exchange, enabling the emergence of ideas and decisions ...
In the land of the Rising Sun, Bath is an ancestral tradition of Zen, a hymn to the purity of body and spirit, is also seeking an opportunity to recharge for a moment forgetting the realities of everyday life ... When you seminar, this soothing space can also exchange in these informal moments when creative ideas arise unexpectedly.
Zen atmosphere, soft music, whispers of falling water, fragrances and essential oils for the garden ... In Bellinglise, participants relax in a hot water bath for 35 to 40 ° C. A pool of water cooler (25 ° C) allows to pass from one to another in order to invigorate the body or cool. After your bath, you can if you want to eat right next to a tea tea bar (as T !), Relax on the tatami in the rest room, unless the steam room does allow you to complete your gentle relaxing journey. And other innovations in other houses will be added to space Balneae de Mello, the hydro-massage beds of Ramee, the range within nearly Ecoublay able to spoil you even better. For Mesnuls in Yvelines, The Cloister of the park is converted into wellness area with steam bath and hydro massage beds, all under one roof plant integrates seamlessly with the surrounding nature and a 14m swimming pool, where we between inside and in one stroke, we found out in the middle of nature. In Nointel in the Val d’Oise, participants will begin next spring enjoy a steam bath and hydro massage beds. At Château de Guermantes, which is scheduled to open next April, a huge building that served as a water reservoir at the castle, his firm and its dependencies became a spa of 500 m2 ! An indoor swimming pool 15 m long to relax after a day’s work. Two steam to vent your frustrations of the day and fresh start. Massage beds for you in 10 minutes to be massaged from head to foot, without having to undress. A gym ... and again to evoke relaxation : a Zen meditation hall.
Memories of that first day experienced by Patricia & Anthony, the host couple, their team and participants GSK ...
8:45 : "Everything is ready, I tap the last time a cushion on the chair of the home already and I see our very first participants arrive. As opening day, we get two teams of GlaxoSmithKline. This is not the first time I open a home Châteauform ’but I’m again a little ball of emotion in the pit of the stomach leaving the host. "
"Coffee, tea, pastries prepared by the chef ... then I discovered that their home, listening to their reactions. They reassure me. I accompanied them to their rooms, their meeting rooms ... "
11:00 : "This is already the snacks. Participants meet in the lounge. Everything is fine, everything works, they seem happy. If they had seen the site, even if that day !! I spend a head by the door to see if everything goes well and there ... what a surprise ! "
"I contemplate the participants comfortably seated in armchairs and sofas, nestled in cozy covers, to discuss them. I have this feeling that they have always been there, I feel truly at home. Just 2 hours that the house was opened and it has a soul ! ... Rendezvous is set for noon tapante for a ceremony a bit special. "
13h : "Oliver & Frances, the two organizers are joining us. A red carpet has been installed to the main entrance of the castle. We go back and we come to a very ceremonial red ribbon. Snap ! A pair of scissors and the castle doors open onto the team home of the Tales in full force to welcome all participants ! "
"The surprise is palpable. Everybody enters in procession, two by two, to go find the bright colors of the buffet that we have prepared Jean-Luc, the chef and his team. The emotion came over me, I feel we are at a wedding ... and the first tears are not immediate. "
20.30 : "A magician comes on stage and surprised everyone during the evening. There’s a trick ! for sure ! But impossible to penetrate the mystery, as always ! Discussions will be moving around the subject during dinner. "
"As an aperitif, the doors of the wine cellar are wide open. Everyone took the opportunity to discover new wines. This evening, returning to their room, participants will be surprised to discover a bottle of Cuvée de Montelu the vineyard surrounding La maison de contes, offered a welcome gift and remember their first day with us ... "
