Hôtel de l'Abeille can host a training day, a board meeting or a small seminar for up to 30 people in its 80-square-meter meeting room, with bedrooms for participants in the same building. The three-star hotel stands at 64 rue d'Alsace-Lorraine in the center of Orléans, a short walk from the railway station, and it has been run by the same family for five generations.
Seminars and company events
The offer suits small groups that want to work in the heart of the city and stay on site. The meeting room can be booked for a training session, a workshop, a presentation or a standing reception. Catering follows the working day: a breakfast welcome, a coffee break in the morning, the afternoon or both, then lunch, dinner or both. For a cocktail, the hotel works with a partner caterer. Because the hotel is close to the station and to a tram stop, a one-day meeting is simple to organize for teams arriving by train.
Rooms and capacities
There is one meeting room of 80 square meters. The hotel gives these maximum figures by layout: 30 in theatre style, 25 around a U-shape, 20 in a classroom layout and 30 for a standing cocktail. Equipment includes a video projector, an interactive screen, a paperboard and Wi-Fi. The room is suited to a working group rather than a large conference, and the classroom figure of 20 is the one to use for a training session with tables.
Accommodation
The hotel offers seven room categories: single standard, single classic, double classic, double superior, triple, superior triple and quadruple. The range makes it possible to lodge a speaker in a single room and to group participants in triples or quadruples on a tight program. The hotel has no elevator and is not accessible to guests with reduced mobility, a point to check before confirming a group that includes anyone who cannot use stairs.
Catering
Breakfast is served at the hotel, and a rooftop is part of its services. For seminar groups, morning and afternoon breaks, lunch and dinner are arranged with the hotel, while a partner caterer handles cocktails. Menus are agreed when the program is set, depending on the length of the day and the number of participants.
History and setting
The hotel calls itself a hotel-museum, set in a historic building in the city center. It has stayed in the hands of one family for five generations and is currently run by Alexandra, the fifth generation. Rue d'Alsace-Lorraine lies in the pedestrian quarter of Orléans, so participants can walk to restaurants, to the old town and to the banks of the Loire once the sessions are over.
Getting there
The hotel is close to Orléans station, with a tram stop nearby, and the city center is within walking distance. Orléans has direct trains to Paris, which makes a day meeting possible for teams based in the capital. Weddings are not part of the hotel's offer, which focuses on rooms and small business meetings.
