Board meetings for 14, seminars for up to 30 and cocktail evenings for up to 100 guests can be organized at the Hôtel Pont Royal, a 75-room hotel on rue de Montalembert in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of Paris. The spaces are small and close together, which suits executive meetings, interviews and product presentations rather than large conferences.
Seminars and company events
The hotel offers room hire by the hour, the half day or the full day, half-day and full-day seminar packages, and interview or press days. The Imprimatur Fair, on the first floor, is a 40-square-meter room for a U-shape of 14 or a theater layout of 19, with projection and Wi-Fi. The Mosaic Show, at 64 square meters, takes a U-shape of 24 or a theater layout of 30, with a flipchart, a portable screen and a video projector. The Library Lounge is used for interviews, press meetings and small private functions. For a launch or a team evening, the F-Sharp Bar, the Library Lounge and the Mosaic Show can be booked together for a cocktail lunch or dinner.
Rooms and capacities
The four spaces range from 40 to 134 square meters. The Library Lounge takes 30 standing guests and the Mosaic Show 50. Combined with the F-Sharp Bar, the Mosaic Show reaches 134 square meters and 100 guests for a cocktail. The hotel lists no seated banquet figure, so a plated dinner is best discussed directly with the sales team, who prepare each offer to measure.
Accommodation
The hotel has 75 rooms and suites. Junior suites measure about 30 square meters, and a two-bedroom suite with a panoramic terrace covers 65 square meters for up to five guests. That is enough to house a management team, visiting speakers or journalists on site during a press day.
Catering
Events can include an aperitif, a lunch or a dinner served by the hotel. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, a contemporary French restaurant, has direct access from the hotel. Bar F-Sharp serves craft cocktails with a jazz theme, and breakfast is served facing a Japanese garden.
History and setting
The building dates from 1750 and was opened as the Hôtel Pont Royal in 1923 by Madame and Monsieur Desgardins. During the 1940s its bar became a meeting place for authors published by Gallimard, La Table Ronde and Le Seuil, and the hotel lists Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Camus and Romain Gary among the writers linked to it. Meeting rooms were added in 1946, and the hotel reopened in September 1999 after a full renovation. That literary past gives a book launch or a press breakfast a fitting backdrop.
Getting there
The address is 5-7 rue de Montalembert, 75007 Paris, on the Left Bank between the Seine and Boulevard Saint-Germain. The Musée d'Orsay and the Louvre are a short walk away, which helps when a meeting day ends with a cultural visit or a dinner in the neighborhood.
