Aletti Palace can host seminars, conferences and receptions for up to 200 people in six rooms and salons covering about 1,000 square meters, with bedrooms and a restaurant in the same building. The hotel stands on Place Joseph Aletti in Vichy, France, directly across from the Vichy Congrès Opéra and a short walk from the thermal baths.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells seminars and business events and is open all year, with a reception staffed 24 hours a day. Its rooms have daylight, blackout curtains, a sound system and ceilings six meters high, which keeps a full-day session comfortable. Standard equipment includes a projector, a screen, a flipchart and message boards. The six spaces can be combined or used separately, so a plenary for 200 can break into smaller working groups in the neighbouring salons without changing floors. Lunch at La Véranda and an evening drink at Bar Ascot complete a residential seminar without leaving the building.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel hosts receptions, and its reception room can be set for a wedding dinner. With bedrooms upstairs, guests can stay where the party takes place, and the opera square and the parks of the spa town give a setting for photographs.
Rooms and capacities
The official site describes six rooms and salons over a total of about 1,000 square meters, with a maximum of 200 people. The spaces are modular, with period character in the salons, natural light and full blackout for projection. The site does not publish the name or capacity of each room, so the events team gives layouts and floor plans on request.
Accommodation
Bedrooms come in three main types: standard doubles of 18 square meters, Superior doubles of 30 square meters with a double or twin beds, and connecting rooms of 50 square meters for up to four guests with two bathrooms. The Belle Époque decor runs through the public areas.
Catering
La Véranda, the hotel restaurant, serves inventive cooking, diet-friendly menus and buffets, which suits seminar lunches. Bar Ascot is fitted with stained-glass windows from Londonderry House in London and period woodwork.
History and setting
The site traces the house back to 1844, when the Villa Maussant opened. It became the Hôtel des Thermes in 1861 and was rebuilt in 1911 as the Thermal Palace, with 300 rooms at the time. During the Second World War the building housed services of several ministries and was badly damaged. It took the name Aletti Palace in 1992. Vichy itself is a spa town of the Allier, built around its springs and parks.
Getting there
The hotel is about two minutes from the town center. Vichy railway station has direct trains to Paris, and Clermont-Ferrand airport is about an hour away by road.
