Grand Hôtel du Midi can host meetings, training days and small seminars for up to 35 people in two equipped rooms, with 44 bedrooms upstairs for participants who stay overnight. The four-star hotel stands on Place de la Comédie, in the historic center of Montpellier, opposite the Opéra Comédie and 300 meters from Saint-Roch station.
Seminars and company events
The hotel takes seminars all year, and its meeting rooms are also open to groups that do not stay at the hotel. Two rooms are available: Comédie, of 50 square meters, and Opéra, of 44 square meters. The largest layout seats 35 in theater style, 30 in classroom style or about 20 in a U-shape. Each room comes with a flipchart, a video projector, markers, notepads, pens, mineral water and Wi-Fi. A dedicated seminar team handles requests and builds the package around the format you choose.
For very small meetings, a work room on the bar side can be booked for 2 to 6 people, Monday to Friday from 2 pm to 6 pm. It suits interviews, a client meeting or a short working session between two trains.
Rooms and capacities
Comédie (50 square meters) and Opéra (44 square meters) are the two meeting rooms. The published figures are 35 in theater layout, 30 in classroom layout and 18 to 20 in a U-shape. The hotel does not list a ballroom or a large reception space, so it fits a committee, a training session or a sales meeting rather than a conference or a gala dinner.
Accommodation
The hotel has 44 rooms in five categories: 29 classic rooms, 9 superior rooms, 2 deluxe rooms facing the Comédie, 1 deluxe room with a terrace facing the Comédie, and 3 family suites. Some rooms look directly onto the square and the opera house. All rooms are air-conditioned and have a safe, and Wi-Fi is free. Reception is staffed 24 hours a day, and rooms for guests with reduced mobility are available on request. Pets are accepted.
Catering
Breakfast is served at Café Les Loges, the hotel's bar and lounge, from 7 am to 10:30 am, or 11 am on Sundays. Lunch and dinner are served next door at the Brasserie du Théâtre, which faces the opera house and has a terrace. The brasserie is an independent business that partners with the hotel and handles its own bookings, so group meals are arranged with it directly.
History and setting
The hotel occupies a Haussmann-style building put up by the Carlier family more than a century ago, overlooking Place de la Comédie and the Fountain of the Three Graces. The interior was renovated by the designer Julie Gauthron as a tribute to contemporary dance, one of Montpellier's signature art forms: rooms come in four color schemes, with patterned wallpapers, lacquered panels and black-and-white photographs of performances in the corridors. Since 2019 the hotel has been run by Xavier Lormand and Nicolas Fruchon, within the Roussillhotel group. The Musée Fabre, the Esplanade Charles de Gaulle and the Antigone district are a short walk away.
Getting there
Montpellier Saint-Roch station is 300 meters away, about five minutes on foot. TGV trains reach it in about 3 h 25 from Paris and 1 h 50 from Lyon. From Montpellier Sud de France station, tram line 1 reaches the city center in about 25 minutes. Montpellier Méditerranée airport is 10 km away, about 15 minutes by car, and a shuttle links it to the tram at Place de l'Europe. Drivers leave the A9 at exit 29 or 31 and park at the Comédie car park, two minutes on foot, at a preferential rate. A Crit'Air sticker is required to drive in the city.
