Le Château des Forges hosts executive committees, board meetings, residential seminars, study days, incentives and private celebrations, with a 39-square-meter meeting room for up to 14 people and 20 rooms sleeping up to 40 guests. The boutique hotel stands on Chemin du Port de l'Île in Angers, on a 6-hectare estate in a Natura 2000 area above the Basses Vallées Angevines, about 10 minutes from the city center.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells three formats. A last-minute meeting offer rents a private 39-square-meter room for up to 8 people for two hours, from two participants, for interviews, business appointments or short management meetings. The private hire offer reserves the whole hotel for an executive committee, a residential seminar or an incentive. It includes the meeting room set for up to 14 people, a dining area, a vaulted cellar for an after-work evening and unrestricted access to the estate.
Rooms are set up to suit the group, with projectors and flipcharts provided. Activities are organized with the partner agency Loire Secret, on the estate and in the surrounding area: wine tastings for 8 to 15 people led by a partner sommelier, murder parties, e-bike rides, trips in electric Méharis and boat outings. A bike route along the Loire with a return by boat and a Savennières wine tasting can be booked.
Weddings and receptions
For private events, the whole hotel can be booked for a family stay or a celebration. The interior spaces can become the reception area, with an outside caterer. Guests have the heated pool from May to September, a pétanque pitch and private access to the Île Saint-Aubin. The hotel does not present itself as a wedding venue, and reception capacities are not published.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting room covers 39 square meters, with a view over the river valleys, and takes up to 14 people for a meeting. The château also has three salons used for breakfast and lounging, a terrace, a vaulted cellar and a panoramic heated pool.
Accommodation
The château has 14 rooms, and six lodges of 25 square meters stand in the lower part of the park. Room categories include Prestige rooms of 28 to 31 square meters with a balcony over the valley, Superior rooms of 20 to 29 square meters, Classic rooms of 14 to 25 square meters and a 43-square-meter studio with its own terrace. The lodges, built in wood with natural materials, are air-conditioned. The hotel states that its 20 units sleep up to 40 people.
Catering
Event meals come from a partner caterer working with fresh, local produce: brunch, seminar meals, a prestige menu or a cocktail with savory and sweet verrines. The hotel itself serves a homemade breakfast, mostly organic and local, and a short lunch and dinner menu of sharing boards and seasonal plates. Drinks feature local organic wines and Angevin liqueurs. The hotel was the first in its department to join the Produit en Anjou label in the service category.
History and setting
The château was built in 1862 as a country retreat and keeps its 19th-century architecture, with a grand staircase and two upper floors. The estate mixes landscaped park, woodland and protected wetlands, with a large sequoia among its notable trees. The hotel has held the EU Ecolabel since 2022. Terra Botanica theme park is a minute away.
Getting there
Central Angers is about 10 minutes by car and Angers station about 15 minutes, and the hotel can arrange a transfer from the station. The A11 motorway interchange is less than one kilometer away. Nantes is about 50 minutes by road. Nantes Atlantique Airport is about one hour away, and the Angers-Marcé airfield, for private flights, about 20 minutes. Parking is free.
