Domaine des Dryades hosts study days, residential seminars, company retreats, weddings and family banquets. Seminars are sold for groups of up to 120 people, and the largest room, Chopin, seats 150 in theatre style. The hotel stands on an estate of about 100 hectares with ponds, woods and a golf course at Pouligny-Notre-Dame, in the Indre, about 50 minutes from Châteauroux.
Seminars and company events
The sales team offers three formats: a study day, a full residential package and a half-residential package. Groups deal with a single contact from first request to departure, and the whole estate can be booked for exclusive use. Transfers can be arranged.
The five seminar rooms have daylight and can be set out in different layouts. Each has Wi-Fi, a video projector, a screen and a flipchart, with paper, pens, hot drinks through the day and a water fountain. Smaller rooms serve as breakout spaces.
Activities on site include the 9-hole golf course with lessons for beginners, tennis, table tennis, pétanque and running trails. Team building is run with partners: olympiads, survival-style challenges and collaborative fresco workshops. For evenings the hotel can book a DJ, a pianist, karaoke, a quiz, a mixology class, a magician or a photo booth.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel sells weddings, birthdays and family banquets. It offers room hire, in-house catering, accommodation for guests, coordination of suppliers and entertainment, with a dedicated contact for each event. Reception rooms, gardens and a terrace overlooking the golf course can be booked for exclusive use. The restaurant team also proposes outdoor formats such as a country dinner on hay bales, a marquee in the grounds, a brazier evening or a guinguette-style long table.
Rooms and capacities
Chopin is the plenary room: 185 m², 150 in theatre style, 80 in classroom style and 60 around a U-shaped table. Berlioz covers 60 m² and seats 30 in theatre style or 25 in U-shape or classroom. Liszt covers 40 m² and seats 25 in theatre style or 18 in U-shape or classroom. George Sand, at 29 m², takes 12 in theatre style or 10 around a table. Indiana covers 169 m²; its layouts are not published.
The estate also manages the Manoir des Dryades, a 17th-century manor with 14 bedrooms that can be rented on its own for weddings, seminars and family gatherings.
Accommodation
The hotel has 84 air-conditioned rooms: 80 rooms in Standard and Prestige categories and four junior suites. Every room has a separate bathroom and toilet and a private balcony or terrace overlooking the golf course. Reception is open around the clock.
Catering
Meals are prepared on site. Les Grands Chênes serves lunch and dinner every day with a view over the estate, and La Paillote, a seasonal bistro, opens in summer. The bar has a lounge area. Menus for weddings can be adapted, and the kitchen works with local and seasonal produce.
History and setting
The estate covers about 100 hectares of woods, fields and ponds in the south of the Indre, close to La Châtre and Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre. The wellness area covers 1,200 m², with a heated indoor pool open all year, an outdoor pool in summer, a hammam, a sauna, treatment rooms and a fitness room. Two motor racing circuits, La Châtre and Mornay, are nearby, and the hotel runs events for car clubs.
Getting there
By road, the hotel is 3 h 30 from Paris, 1 h 20 from Bourges, 1 h 30 from Limoges and 2 h from Tours and Orléans. The nearest station and airport are in Châteauroux. A large free car park with electric charging points is at the foot of the hotel.
