Domaine de Bassilour hosts residential seminars for groups of up to 40 people, team-building days, family celebrations and country weddings. The four-star hotel has a 150 m² meeting and reception room, three smaller rooms and lodging spread over a farm, a villa and a manor. It stands at 1562 Rue Bassilour in Bidart, on the Basque coast, close to Biarritz and less than five minutes from the beaches of Bidart.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells seminars for groups of up to 40 people, with single, twin and double rooms. The meeting package includes a projector, a screen, a paperboard, fiber Wi-Fi, notepads, pens and detox water, and the team encourages paperless meetings. Coffee breaks use homemade cakes and fresh fruit, with service and cleanup included. Lunch can be a buffet, a cocktail dinner or a meal outdoors, and tents are available if the weather turns. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and lactose-free options are offered on request.
Team building is run on site: a cooking class with a chef using produce from the market and the garden, a wine workshop with blind tasting, a quiz evening, and slow activities such as yoga, meditation, forest bathing, herbal workshops, beehive visits and planting in the permaculture garden.
Weddings and receptions
A wedding at Bassilour follows a simple sequence. The ceremony, civil-style or religious, takes place on the lawns of the manor park under old trees. The cocktail is served in the gardens, with buffets, cooking stations or a bar. Dinner and dancing move to the reception hall in the renovated farm, about 150 m², with a DJ area, lighting and an outdoor area for breaks. Dancing can run until 4 a.m. A brunch on the terrace can follow the next day. The hotel works with local caterers. Hiring the hall requires booking the ten farm rooms.
Rooms and capacities
Behereko Etxea, in the farm building, covers 150 m² and holds up to 40 people for meetings, with large glass walls onto the garden. La Rhune, on the second floor of the villa, covers 80 m², with views of the Basque hills and the Rhune; it can be set in a U, in workshop style or as a yoga room. Argia, on the ground floor of the villa, covers 53 m² and opens onto a private terrace. Bi and Bat, about 20 m² each, take two to four people.
Accommodation
The hotel lists 16 rooms and suites, from a small double to four suites. The annex villa has seven bedrooms for up to 15 people, with a heated pool, a tennis court and a boules area, and is rented for at least two nights. Apartments are set in the Second Empire manor house.
Catering
The hotel serves breakfast and coffee breaks itself and relies on local caterers for wedding meals. Seminar meals use local, seasonal products from short supply chains.
History and setting
The farm, Behereko-Etchea, is recorded in 1562 and is the only 16th-century building left on the estate. A villa built in 1870 was enlarged in 1900 and became the manor. The Vachet family has owned the property since 1989 and turned it into a hotel. Renovation used lime walls, geothermal heating and triple glazing, and the hotel holds the EU Ecolabel. In 2024 it won a sustainable tourism award that funded a new seminar room.
Getting there
The estate is in Bidart, between Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a short drive from Biarritz.
