Hôtel Alchimy can host a study day for up to 35 people, a residential seminar for a team of up to 10, a group meal or a cocktail reception, with a meeting room, a brasserie and 10 bedrooms in the same building. The four-star hotel stands at 10 and 12 Place du Palais, in the historic center of Albi, in the Tarn, one hour from Toulouse.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells meetings, study days, group meals and residential or non-residential seminars. Its meeting room takes 16 to 35 people depending on the layout and is used both for working sessions and for private group meals. The team helps shape a program around the timetable of the day.
Three formats are listed. The study day uses a 50 square meter space for groups from 8 to 35 people. The private room hire uses a 40 square meter room set for 16 people theater style. The residential seminar is offered for groups of 4 to 10 people and combines the meeting space with bedrooms and meals.
The room is air-conditioned and comes with a television, Wi-Fi, a video projector, a flipchart, bottled water, paper and pens, and a coffee machine. Requests for group and seminar quotes go to a dedicated commercial contact at the hotel.
Weddings and receptions
The restaurant presents itself as a place for cocktails, receptions and private celebrations as well as seminars. Weddings are not listed as a service on the hotel website, and no capacity is published for a standing reception, so both points should be checked with the team.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting space covers 50 square meters in its study-day set-up and takes up to 35 people. In its private-hire format, a 40 square meter room is set for 16 people theater style. The room can be laid out for work or for a seated meal.
Accommodation
The hotel has 10 bedrooms and suites, from 17 to 44 square meters, all soundproofed. Each has air conditioning, a minibar, a coffee machine, bathrobes and slippers, an iron, satellite and cable television, and a hospitality tray. Breakfast is served from 7:30 to 10 a.m. Guests have access to a private swimming pool 150 meters from the hotel from May to September. For a larger group, the same owners run Hôtel Lapérouse, another four-star hotel in the historic center.
Catering
The brasserie serves lunch and dinner every day under a glass roof, in an Art Deco dining room with a Murano chandelier designed by the studio Les Héritiers. The cooking is homemade, seasonal and draws on produce from the Toulouse region. For seminars, the chef prepares set menus and breaks fitted to the working timetable. A terrace is used in fine weather, and the hotel also runs a bar called Le Speakeasy.
History and setting
The building at 10 and 12 Place du Palais was a notary's office left empty for twenty years. Laurent Miquel bought it in 2012 and opened Alchimy as a brasserie in September 2014, with his nephew Nicolas and niece Laura; the hotel followed a few months later. With a fourth partner, Adrien Cagnelle, they extended the restaurant and hotel and added the bar and seminar rooms. Sainte-Cécile Cathedral, the Toulouse-Lautrec Museum and the Saint-Salvi cloister are about 300 meters away on foot, within the UNESCO-listed episcopal city.
Getting there
From Toulouse, take the A68, then the Albi ring road and the RN88, exit Albi-Stadium. The hotel is a five-minute walk from the bus stop on Place Jean-Jaurès and about fifteen minutes from Albi-Ville station. Toulouse-Blagnac airport is 70 km away, Castres-Mazamet 43 km and Rodez-Aveyron 60 km. A private car park 50 meters from the hotel is available on reservation.
