The Auberge du Relais takes residential and day seminars, study days, general assemblies, team building and catered receptions for 20 to 100 people. It is a family hotel-restaurant in Bérenx, in the Béarn area of southwest France, between Orthez and Salies-de-Béarn, with 19 bedrooms upstairs and its own kitchen.
Seminars and company events
The inn sells residential and non-residential seminars, single study days, team building days and general assemblies, and its seminar rooms can be booked exclusively. The layout of the room, the menus and the breaks are set with the client for each event. Days usually combine a meeting room, sweet and savory breaks and lunch on site. The team states more than 30 years of experience with company events, and regional companies in insurance, banking and energy are among its clients.
Weddings and receptions
The kitchen also works as a caterer for receptions and weddings. It prepares banquets, cocktail receptions, buffets, welcome coffee and afternoon breaks, with or without service staff, and can deliver or prepare food for collection. Wedding workshops and group meals are part of the offer. The site does not name a reception room for weddings or give a capacity for one, so the format is confirmed with the inn.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting rooms take groups of 20 to 100 people. They are air-conditioned and equipped with audio and video equipment, including a large touchscreen, a projector and a flipchart. The site does not give room names or separate figures for each layout.
Accommodation
The hotel has 19 rooms and holds a three-star Logis Hôtels rating, which makes it practical for a residential seminar where the whole group stays on site. A heated outdoor pool is open in season.
Catering
The restaurant is run by chef Marie Larrouture, the third generation of the family at the inn. The cooking is regional and homemade, based on local produce with a modern touch. For groups, the kitchen covers breaks, seminar lunches and dinners, as well as off-site catering.
History and setting
The inn has been run by the same family for three generations. It sits on the main road through Bérenx, in a quiet area roughly halfway between Pau and Bayonne. The Atlantic coast and the Pyrenees are each about 45 minutes away, and the spa town of Salies-de-Béarn is about 8 km away.
Getting there
By car, the inn is on the RN117, about 10 minutes from the A64 motorway, with free parking on site. By train, the nearest station is Orthez, served by TGV. Pau Pyrénées Airport is about 50 minutes away and Biarritz Pays Basque Airport about 45 minutes.
