The Château d'Ayres can host small seminars, conferences, business days and private celebrations, with two meeting rooms, three dining rooms and a restaurant and terrace that each seat 80. With 29 bedrooms and suites, a group can work, eat and sleep in the same place. The hotel stands in the hamlet of Les Ayres, at Meyrueis, in the Lozère department.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells seminars, cocktails, conferences and meetings. Its two meeting rooms measure 30 and 50 square meters, which suits a board meeting, a training session or a team of a few dozen people. Standard equipment includes a flipchart, a telephone and unlimited Wi-Fi; other equipment can be requested. Three lounges, a billiard room, a covered table tennis area and a table football give a group somewhere to go between sessions.
A residential seminar is the natural format here: the meeting rooms, the restaurant and the 29 bedrooms sit inside the same estate, and the reception desk can arrange outings to the Gorges du Tarn and the Cévennes National Park. The 6-hectare enclosed park has walking and riding trails and a tennis court.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel organizes weddings, birthdays, christenings, communions and other family events. It offers a turnkey service that can cover room decoration, menus, service and music. The main dining room opens onto the terrace and the park, and the terrace seats 80 in fine weather around the main garden. Larger weddings should check the seated limit with the hotel early.
Rooms and capacities
The event spaces published by the hotel are two meeting rooms of 30 and 50 square meters, three restaurant rooms of 10, 20 and 40 square meters, three lounges and a billiard room. The restaurant seats 80 across its three dining rooms, and the terrace also seats 80. No theater or classroom figures are published for the meeting rooms.
Accommodation
The hotel has 29 rooms and suites in six categories: Standard, Comfort, Superior, Luxury, Suite and Apartment. Some sleep up to four people, which helps when colleagues or families share. Guests have an indoor pool kept at 29°C or more, an outdoor pool with a children's pool, a private spa and free Wi-Fi.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The restaurant serves cooking based on produce from Lozère, the Cévennes and the Causses, with a daily market menu and a menu named after Messire de Nogaret. Hélène de Montjou designs the dishes. The restaurant is open every day for lunch and dinner, and it takes groups and seminars.
History and setting
The château began as a Benedictine monastery and later became a lordly residence. It is run by Jean-François and Hélène de Montjou, the owners. The estate lies in open country close to the Gorges du Tarn, the Causses and the Cévennes National Park, a landscape of limestone plateaus and deep canyons.
Getting there
By road, leave the A75 at exit 44-1 toward Aguessac and Meyrueis. Millau is about 45 minutes away, Montpellier about two hours and Clermont-Ferrand about two and a half hours. The nearest railway station listed by the hotel is Millau, 44 km away, and the nearest airport is Rodez, 119 km away. A car or a coach transfer is the practical option for a group.
