Alliance Lille - Couvent des Minimes takes residential seminars, study days, conferences, banquets and cocktail receptions for up to 300 people. It has seven meeting rooms, four of them modular, on 300 square meters, plus a 200-square-meter glass-roofed courtyard for receptions. The hotel fills a former convent of the Minim friars on the Quai du Wault, in Vieux-Lille, and has 75 rooms and 8 suites.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells two formats: a residential seminar that combines room hire, meals and accommodation, and a study day with lunch, an equipped room and breaks. Every meeting room has daylight, air conditioning and high-speed Wi-Fi. Each comes with a paperboard, a video projector, water and sweets, notepads and pens, and technical assistance. A stage, a lectern, confidence monitors and a sound system with wired or wireless microphones are available on request. Banquets and cocktails take place under the glass roof, at the center of the building.
Rooms and capacities
Faidherbe 1 and 2 combined form the plenary room: 150 square meters for 150 theatre-style, 70 classroom, 45 U-shape or 130 at a banquet. Each half, 75 square meters, seats 60 theatre-style or 50 for a banquet. Watteau 1 and 2 together cover 95 square meters for 72 theatre-style or 70 at a banquet; Watteau 2 alone takes 45 theatre-style and Watteau 1 takes 20. Vauban, 35 square meters, seats 27 theatre-style. Lienart, on the first floor, takes 20. Rihour, a 15-square-meter room on the second floor, suits a meeting of 6. The Espace Verrière, 200 square meters, and the Espace Bar, 80 square meters, host receptions.
Accommodation
The hotel has 75 rooms and 8 suites, arranged around the cloister and the inner courtyard. A seminar of several days can sleep on site.
Catering
The hotel runs its own restaurant and bar. Seminar lunches, breaks, banquets and cocktail dinners are served in house, with receptions held under the glass roof.
History and setting
The convent was built between 1622 and 1638 for the Minim order. Its brick and stone buildings have been listed as a historic monument since 1977, and the building opened as a hotel in 1990. The former cloister courtyard is now covered by a glass pyramid, which brings daylight into the heart of the hotel and gives it its main reception space. The Quai du Wault sits on the western edge of Vieux-Lille, a few minutes on foot from the Grand Place and the old town's streets of Flemish façades.
Getting there
The hotel is at 17 Quai du Wault, 59800 Lille. Lille Flandres and Lille Europe stations, with TGV and Eurostar connections to Paris, Brussels and London, are in the city center, and Lille-Lesquin airport lies south-east of the city.
