La Maison du Bassin hosts management committees, study days and residential seminars for up to 30 people at Cap Ferret, in the commune of Lège-Cap-Ferret on the Bassin d'Arcachon. The hotel and restaurant has one meeting room, 17 bedrooms and shaded outdoor spaces. It sits next to the Cap Ferret lighthouse and the oyster-farming village, about an hour from Bordeaux.
Seminars and company events
The hotel presents itself as a quiet place for small professional groups: seminars, management committees, study days and other business events. The setting is private rather than busy, and the working day can continue naturally around a table, on the terrace or outdoors. It suits teams that want a calm environment for discussion and creative work rather than a conference-center format.
Two formulas are offered. The study day includes an equipped meeting room, a coffee break and lunch at the restaurant. The residential seminar adds accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner, the equipped room and snack breaks. Business lunches, team dinners, cocktails, buffets and tailor-made menus can be arranged around the program.
A program of activities can accompany each seminar: a boat trip on the Bassin d'Arcachon, a bike ride on the peninsula, an oyster tasting, a visit to the oyster-farming villages, surfing or other water activities.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting room is lit by natural daylight and holds up to 30 people. It has a screen, a video projector and a flipchart. The hotel gives three layouts: classroom for 15, U-shape for 20 and theatre for 30. Several configurations are possible, from a small committee to a wider presentation. Because there is a single room, plan one plenary format and use the restaurant, terrace and gardens for other moments of the day.
Accommodation
La Maison du Bassin has 17 bedrooms. Eight of them can be set up as twin rooms, which matters when colleagues share a room on a residential seminar. An extra bed can be added on request, and Wi-Fi is free. Check-in is from 4 p.m. and check-out is before 11 a.m. Breakfast is served at the hotel from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. The house is described as a family home from another time, with a bright veranda and a shaded terrace.
Catering
The restaurant serves generous, convivial cooking built around seasonal products and the local area. It opens onto the outside, and a bar serves cocktails. Business lunches, team dinners, cocktails, buffets, snack breaks and made-to-measure menus can be planned according to the pace of the stay.
Getting there
The address is 5 rue des Pionniers, Cap Ferret. According to the hotel, Bordeaux and Bordeaux-Mérignac airport are each about an hour away by road. Arcachon is 30 minutes away by boat, and Paris to Bordeaux takes two hours by TGV. The hotel is a 10-minute walk from the ocean and a minute from the Bassin.
