Hôtel Albert 1er suits seminars, training sessions and small receptions of up to 30 people seated theatre-style or 37 at a standing cocktail, with five meeting rooms and 47 bedrooms in the same building. The three-star hotel is at 8 rue Rivals in the historic center of Toulouse, about 100 meters from Place du Capitole.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells meeting days, training sessions and residential seminars. Every room has high-speed wifi or a wired connection, a projection screen with a video projector, a flipchart, and notepads with pens. Because the five rooms are close in size, a group of 25 to 30 can hold a plenary in one and split into two or three workshops in the others without leaving the floor. The hotel also rents its rooms for pop-up stores, photo shoots, art openings and exhibitions. The Salon Nougaro, with daylight and its own entrance from rue Rivals, works well as a showroom or a training room that visitors reach without crossing the lobby.
Rooms and capacities
Salon Nougaro: about 50 square meters, large bay window, private street access; 30 theatre, 20 boardroom, U-shape or classroom, 20 in islands, 37 standing. Salon Guerlain: 42 square meters; 30 theatre, 20 U-shape, 18 boardroom, 15 classroom, 16 in islands, 35 standing. Salon Clémence Isaure: 47 square meters; 30 theatre, 12 U-shape, 35 standing; it is also the breakfast room. Salon Couleur, also called the salon des couleurs: 40 square meters; 30 theatre, 15 U-shape, 18 boardroom, 15 classroom, 16 in islands, 35 standing. Salon Occitane: 43 square meters in a vaulted brick cellar; 25 theatre, 18 U-shape, 20 boardroom, 16 classroom, 18 in islands, 30 standing.
Accommodation
The hotel has 47 rooms in five categories: single, classic, comfort, superior and family. A seminar group can therefore sleep most participants on site, which simplifies a two-day program and an early start. Reception is staffed 24 hours a day. The website also presents a second hotel in Toulouse, Hôtel d'Orsay, which can help when a group needs more rooms.
Catering
The kitchen works with short supply chains and fresh local produce. For groups, the hotel offers breakfast, coffee breaks, a table d'hôte lunch or dinner, a buffet lunch or dinner, an aperitif or a cocktail dinatoire, a brunch and a picnic, plus room service. Breakfast is served every day from 6 to 10 a.m., until 11 a.m. on weekends, in the Salon Clémence Isaure, and it can also be brought to the room.
History and setting
The rooms used for exhibitions are former artists' studios, and the Occitane room keeps the red brick vaults typical of old Toulouse. The hotel combines this period character with modern fittings. A few steps away, Place du Capitole, the city hall and the pedestrian streets of the old town give participants plenty of options for a dinner out after a working day.
Getting there
Capitole metro station on line A is a short walk away. Toulouse-Matabiau, the main railway station with TGV trains from Paris and Bordeaux, is about 1.5 kilometers to the northeast, reachable on foot or by metro. Toulouse-Blagnac airport is about 10 kilometers away by tram, shuttle or taxi. Drivers can leave their car at Parking Jeanne d'Arc, where hotel guests get a preferential rate by validating their ticket at reception; spaces cannot be reserved in advance.
