Hôtel Restaurant Le Noirlac hosts seminars, study days, afterworks and company dinners for up to 100 guests, with two meeting rooms in the hotel, a third in its loft annex, 43 bedrooms and a restaurant on site. It stands at 215 route de Bourges in Saint-Amand-Montrond, on the shore of Lac de Virlay in the Cher department, in the Berry region of central France.
Seminars and company events
The hotel builds day and residential seminars: a meeting room, coffee breaks served in the room, lunch at the restaurant or in the room, and bedrooms for participants. It also organizes afterwork drinks at the bar or on the lakeside terrace, business meals and events planned around the brief and the timing of the client. Coaches are welcome for a group lunch or dinner stop. Free parking, charging points for electric cars and free Wi-Fi help regional teams who arrive by road.
Rooms and capacities
Salon Meillant is the main room: 105 m² for up to 100 people, in seven configurations. The hotel lists up to 97 for a conference or a show with a screen or stage, 51 in classroom, 35 in a U-shape, 36 around a meeting table, 64 at a banquet or at eight tables of eight, and 100 for a cocktail. Salon Culan is a 21 m² room for up to 10 people, set up for meetings only, which suits a board or a steering committee. Les Lofts du Noirlac, the annex, has its own meeting room for groups who stay longer. The pool and the terrace give a place for breaks outdoors in season.
Accommodation
The hotel has 43 air-conditioned rooms: singles, doubles, twins and King Size Privilège rooms. Les Lofts du Noirlac add 17 lofts and suites with one or two bedrooms and equipped kitchens, with self check-in at any hour and secure parking, which suits trainers or teams on a longer assignment. The restaurant is about two minutes from the lofts. Breakfast is a buffet served from 7 to 10 a.m.
Catering
Restaurant Le 215 cooks regional dishes from fresh produce and has a terrace by the pool looking onto the lake. Groups can eat in a dining room or a private space, and seminar meals can also be served in the meeting room. Morning and afternoon coffee breaks are served in the room, so a working session does not have to stop for long.
History and setting
The hotel takes its name from the Abbaye de Noirlac, a Cistercian abbey founded in the 12th century a few kilometers away and now a cultural center, which makes a good group outing after a working day. Saint-Amand-Montrond is a market town on the Cher river, within reach of the Tronçais oak forest and the Berry countryside, in a quiet part of France where a team can work without distractions.
Getting there
The hotel is on the route de Bourges, on the north side of Saint-Amand-Montrond, close to the A71 motorway between Orléans, Bourges and Clermont-Ferrand. Saint-Amand-Montrond-Orval station has regional trains to Bourges, about 45 km to the north, where connections to Paris run.
