Dihan Evasion hosts half-day and full-day meetings and residential seminars of one or more nights, for teams of 10 to about 80 people. Five named spaces range from a small room for 12 to a café lounge for 80 at a cocktail, and guests sleep in treehouses and other unusual lodgings on the estate. Dihan stands on 25 hectares of woods and meadows in Ploemel, in the Morbihan department of southern Brittany.
Seminars and company events
The team builds each seminar with the client: meeting rooms in several layouts, outdoor spaces on the pond, meadow and pine wood, meals and activities. The estate also suits management meetings and decision-making sessions, with calm and discretion as stated selling points. Group activities can include the slow tourism trail across the estate, the permaculture garden, the spa and the wooden swimming pool. The site is car-free, which keeps a group together for the length of the stay. Dihan holds the European Ecolabel and presents itself as the first unusual-lodging site to receive it, which can matter for companies with CSR targets.
Rooms and capacities
The Indezad room covers 42 square meters and takes 30 at a cocktail, 20 in classroom or U-shape and 40 in theater style. Its covered terrace adds 80 square meters for 50 at a cocktail, 30 in classroom or U-shape and 40 in theater style. The Breizhad room covers 18 square meters for 10 to 12 people. The Café Bar Lounge, the largest space at 200 square meters, takes 80 at a cocktail, 50 in classroom or theater style and 25 in a U. The small pond terrace covers 80 square meters for 50 at a cocktail and 70 in theater style. A Berber tent facing the meadow and the meadow itself serve for outdoor sessions and breaks.
Accommodation
Guests stay in treehouses, some perched up to ten meters high, and in other unusual lodgings: a star-gazing dome, a gypsy caravan, a Lapland chalet, a guest room, ecolodges and luxury cabins with a private wooden hot tub and Finnish bath. Most treehouses have no running water or electricity; dry toilets are provided, and bathrooms are in the guest lounge near the reception, 50 to 350 meters away on foot. The luxury cabins and ecolodges have their own bathrooms. The guest lounge is open around the clock with power, wifi and a work area.
Catering
Breakfast is delivered in a basket to each lodging around 9 a.m. Dinner baskets with a starter, a hot main course and dessert are prepared on site and can be eaten in the lodgings or in shared spaces such as the covered deck. Vegetarian, gluten-free and pork-free meals are available on request. In season, the café lounge by the pool serves house cocktails, organic juices, sharing boards and coffee. Meals for seminar groups are arranged with the team when you plan the program.
History and setting
Myriam and Arno created Dihan on their former family farm almost twenty years ago and were among the first in France to build perched cabins. The reception is in the old cowshed, and the Spa by Dihan occupies a 75-square-meter room in the old longhouse barn, with sauna, hammam and massage. In Breton, dihan means pause. The estate lies close to the Carnac megaliths, the cliffs of the Quiberon wild coast, the Gulf of Morbihan and the Ria d'Etel.
Getting there
The estate is about ten minutes by road from the ocean. Parking is reserved for guests, and the lodgings are reached on foot, with carts for luggage on longer stays. Check-in runs from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and check-out is before 11 a.m.; seminar timings are set with the team.
