Hôtel La Roseraie hosts study days and residential seminars for groups of up to 40 in a meeting room, with meals for 50 to 70 guests in its two dining rooms. The whole hotel can be hired on request. It is a family-run three-star hotel at 7 rue du Docteur Bretonneau in Chenonceaux, in the Loire Valley, 300 m from the Château de Chenonceau.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells three seminar formats: a study day from 8 am to 5 pm with two breaks and a three-course lunch, a semi-residential day with a night in a twin room and breakfast, and a full residential package that adds the seminar dinner. All formats give access to the garden, pool and bar. A dedicated team builds each program, and lodging, meals and activities stay in one place.
Activities can start from the hotel. The site lists wine games, bike routes around the château and along the Cher, canoeing under the château arches 300 m away, a sunset trip on a traditional Loire boat with an aperitif on an island, cellar tastings nearby, cooking classes with a local chef, and balloon or helicopter flights from the hotel.
Rooms and capacities
Two seminar rooms sit in period rooms of the house. Salle Ottoni covers 35 m² and takes 15 to 20 people, depending on layout. Salle Diane covers 50 m² and takes 20 to 40. Both have a video projector, a screen, a flipchart and Wi-Fi. The two restaurant rooms hold between 50 and 70 guests, one of them with a fireplace. In summer a small group can eat on the terrace lined with roses.
Accommodation
The hotel has 23 rooms, in double, twin or single set-ups, spread across several buildings facing the village, the inner courtyard, the garden or the rose garden. Categories run from Classique and Tradition to Charme, Supérieure, family rooms for three to five and an Executive Suite of two connecting rooms. Maison Ottoni, an 18th-century house across the street, has renovated attic rooms without air conditioning whose guests share the hotel pool and parking. The outdoor pool is heated and open from early May to late September. Parking is private, enclosed and free of booking.
Catering
Meals are cooked in house. The restaurant serves traditional and regional cooking from Touraine with local wines, led by chef Patrick Fenki and his team, using homemade products. A seminar menu of starter, main course and dessert is served at lunch and dinner. The bar is open in the afternoon and early evening.
History and setting
The house began as a village inn on the road along the Cher. Over the centuries it was called Hôtel des Excursionnistes, then Hôtel des Touristes, then Chez Ottoni, before taking the name La Roseraie in the late 1980s. During the Second World War the Cher, 300 m away, marked the demarcation line. The hotel says guests have included Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill. Amboise is 10 km away, Tours 30 km and Blois 40 km.
Getting there
Chenonceaux station is 200 m from the hotel, with direct trains from Paris Austerlitz in about 2 h 30. The TGV reaches Saint-Pierre-des-Corps from Paris Montparnasse in 55 minutes, followed by a 25-minute taxi ride. By car, Paris is about two hours away by the A10, and the A85 exit at Bléré is 3 km away. Tours Val de Loire airport is 35 km away, about 30 minutes by road.
