Au Colombier du Touron, a hotel and restaurant in Brax, five minutes from Agen in the Lot-et-Garonne, hosts seminars from 10 to 80 people and wedding or family meals for up to 120 guests. It has three seminar rooms, two bright dining rooms overlooking the park, 11 bedrooms and free parking, in a 19th-century house.
Seminars and company events
The hotel has three seminar rooms for 10 to 80 people, set in a park with old trees. Each is equipped with a projection screen, a video projector, a paperboard and Wi-Fi. The venue sells the seminar room on its own, by the half day or the full day, and also offers non-residential formulas for groups of 15 or more, running from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. A study-day formula covers the lunch of the day, a welcome coffee, pastries and fruit juice. A residential formula adds an overnight stay with dinner, and lunch the next day. Prices are listed on the official site.
Because the dining rooms are on the same property, a seminar can combine working sessions, meals and an overnight stay without leaving the park.
Weddings and receptions
The restaurant rooms are offered for birthday parties, weddings, christenings, communions and seminars. Two of them are large and bright, with a panoramic view of the park and the dovecote, and can hold up to 120 guests. For family meals and smaller groups, the hotel suggests other rooms and the terrace. The kitchen works with products from the region and from further away, and the site presents the restaurant as suited to group meals around Agen.
Rooms and capacities
The seminar rooms take between 10 and 80 people. The two large dining rooms take up to 120 guests. The official site does not give separate figures per seminar room or name them, so ask which room fits your group size and layout.
Accommodation
The three-star hotel has 11 air-conditioned rooms, each with a bathroom, toilet, flat-screen television and Wi-Fi. Beds measure 140 or 160 cm depending on the category: comfort rooms face the road and superior rooms face the park. A large private car park and a closed bicycle room are available, and pets are accepted. The hotel also offers a stopover evening formula. With 11 rooms, residential seminars suit small groups, and larger groups should plan other lodging nearby.
Catering
The restaurant serves homemade cooking built on products from the Lot-et-Garonne and other regions, with a selection of wines and Armagnac. Menus are published on the official site.
History and setting
The hotel occupies a bourgeois house from the 19th century, sheltered by a shaded park and an 18th-century dovecote. It lies in the Lot-et-Garonne, on the road toward Mont-de-Marsan and the Dordogne, between the Bordeaux vineyards and the Pyrenees. The hotel is run by Carine and Frédéric Roquet and their team.
Getting there
The address is 187 avenue des Landes, in Brax, about five minutes from Agen.
