The Domaine du Grand Bec hosts executive committees, study days and residential seminars for up to 30 people in its sea-view Neptune room, with 18 bedrooms on site and the option to hire the whole estate. Run by its owners, Catherine and Eric, the domain combines guest rooms and cottages above the sea at Villerville, on the Côte Fleurie, five minutes from Deauville.
Seminars and company events
The estate describes itself as a place of human scale, suited to team meetings and management committees. It sells study days, semi-residential and residential seminars, and can be privatized in full for a professional event. Catherine acts as the single contact and handles the details from the first request to departure.
Breakout work is easy to arrange. When the estate is privatized, the living areas of the five cottages become sub-committee rooms for four to six people, and the park, the terrace and the pool area serve for informal exchanges in good weather.
Team activities on site include an 18-hole mini-golf course, a pétanque court, table football, billiards and a heated outdoor pool facing the sea, open from May to October. Nearby, the estate and its partners can arrange tours of Normandy, Deauville or Honfleur by 2CV, buggy, Segway, bike or boat, as well as sand yachting, karting, sulky initiation, a car circuit, a treetop course, a cooking workshop, a murder party, an escape game or beach games.
Rooms and capacities
The Neptune room covers 68 square meters and seats up to 30 people. Large bay windows give it daylight and a view of the sea. It can be set in theater or boardroom layout and is equipped with a large interactive Speechi screen, video conferencing, free high-speed wifi and a second connected TV screen. The room includes a coffee corner and a relaxation corner with table football and billiards.
Accommodation
The estate has 18 bedrooms, almost all with a sea view, and 12 of them can be set as twins. That gives 18 people in single occupancy, or up to 30 with some rooms shared. Guest rooms carry names such as Bourgeoise, Baccarat, Clairefontaine, Marine and Océane, with the Suite Normandy and the Suite Calypso, which has a private spa. The cottages include the Maison de Jacky, the Loft, the Pêcheur, the Showroom and the Tennis.
Catering
Meals are made to order with producers and shops near Deauville. Groups can choose two or three courses with or without wine, seafood platters or a barbecue. Meals are served in the sea-view dining room or, in good weather, on the terrace facing the sea, with an open fireplace in autumn and winter. Breakfast uses local produce.
History and setting
The estate sits at the end of a small lane, in a landscaped park above the sea, with a mini farm and a path down to a wild beach below the domain. The resorts of Deauville, Trouville, Honfleur and Cabourg are a few minutes away, and the coast offers events such as the American film festival in Deauville, horse racing and the casino.
Getting there
The domain is at Villerville, in the Calvados, five minutes from Deauville by road, between Trouville and Honfleur. Guests park in a car park reserved for them.
