Domaine de Manville hosts seminars, incentives, weddings and private celebrations, with the option to hire the whole estate. Its two meeting rooms take 80 and 20 people in theater layout, the restaurants can seat up to 240, and the hotel sleeps up to 140. The five-star hotel lies at the foot of the Alpilles in Les Baux-de-Provence, in the Alpilles regional nature park.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells complete packages that combine meeting rooms, accommodation, meals and activities. The two seminar rooms measure 90 and about 45 square meters, with wifi throughout, audio conferencing, a video projector and a flipchart. The larger room takes 80 people in theater layout and the smaller one 20.
For smaller groups, the nine hotel houses offer a different format. Each covers 220 square meters and has a lounge that works as a meeting room, with audio and video conferencing, a flipchart and a connected touch screen. A team can work in the lounge, then eat together on the terrace. Together the houses sleep 56 and seat 60 for meals.
Activities include golf lessons with the estate's professionals, a tour of the permaculture garden, wine tastings with the head sommelier, and team building workshops. A MICE brochure is available from the hotel.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings at Manville are held with the estate fully privatized. The hotel also hosts birthdays, bar mitzvahs and family events, and publishes a separate wedding brochure. With accommodation for up to 140 and dining for up to 240, guests can stay on site for the whole weekend.
Rooms and capacities
The main seminar room covers 90 square meters and takes 80 in theater layout. The second room is listed at 45 square meters on one line of the site and 50 on another, for 20 in theater. Each hotel house has a 220 square meter living space for meetings. Total dining capacity is 240 people.
Accommodation
The hotel has 30 rooms and suites and nine hotel houses in Deluxe, Deluxe four-bedroom and Prestige categories. Accommodation across the estate takes up to 140 guests. On site are an 18-hole golf course of 5,500 meters, a spa, a kids club and a concierge service.
Catering
Chef Lieven Van Aken, from Antwerp, runs the kitchens. He trained with Lionel Rigolet, Michel Guérard and Olivier Brulard. L'Aupiho is the gastronomic restaurant, with a plant-based menu built on organic vegetables from the estate's permaculture farm. Le Bistrot serves lunch, and the estate also has a bar, a garden restaurant, a cabin, a Sunday brunch and a breakfast room under a glass roof. Fish comes from the Grau-du-Roi auction and pork from Mont Ventoux.
History and setting
Manville was an agricultural property where Patrick Saut's grandfather, a beekeeper, kept his hives. When the farm came up for sale decades later, Edith and Patrick Saut, a family from Maussane-les-Alpilles, bought it and built a 100-hectare estate that keeps its farming past. The golf course was designed to protect the landscape, the local species and water resources. Every October it hosts the Manville Legends Cup, which brings former international football and rugby players together.
Getting there
Avignon airport and Avignon TGV station are each about 30 minutes away, Nîmes-Garons airport about 40 minutes and Montpellier airport about 1 hour. The hotel can organize transfers, and helicopters can land on the estate.
