Le Lieu Dit can host seminars, study days, team-building days and company cocktails for up to 150 people, as well as birthdays and family meals, with 31 bedrooms for groups that stay the night. Le Lieu Dit is a hotel with a pizzeria, a grocery and an event hall at 78 route de Vannes, in the Sainte-Thérèse Longchamp district in the north of Nantes.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells meeting room hire and all-inclusive packages for seminars, working meetings and study days, and full privatization of the site can be arranged. The main event space is La Halle, a bright and modular area at the heart of the property that looks onto the boat. It is equipped with an HD screen, a sound system and Wi-Fi throughout, and works as a plenary room by day and a place for drinks or dinner in the evening.
The second space is Le Bateau, a retired boat converted into a meeting room with Bathô, a company that gives old boats a new use. The hotel offers it for working meetings, an unusual lunch or a dinner with friends. The team helps with organization, and the reception is open 24 hours a day, so a study day can start early or an evening reception can run late.
The hotel presents its eco-responsible approach as an asset for companies with a CSR policy: furniture from reuse, a local breakfast, and measures to save water and energy.
Rooms and capacities
The hotel states a capacity of up to 150 people across its event spaces. Separate capacities for La Halle and Le Bateau are not published; ask the team for the layout that fits your group.
Accommodation
There are 31 bedrooms, rated one star by the hotel's own choice, colorful and furnished at 80 percent with reused pieces from the former hotel, flea markets and antique dealers. Mattresses are reconditioned Tediber Phénix models. The hotel focuses on three comforts: bedding, a strong shower and fast Wi-Fi; there is no television in the rooms, to draw guests to the shared spaces. Two rooms are adapted for guests with reduced mobility.
Catering
Meals for events come from Gasparelli, the family pizzeria on site, which serves pizzas, a dish of the day and sharing boards. Seminar formulas include lunches made with local products and coffee breaks with house specialties. The on-site grocery sells farm and local products, natural wines and craft beers, and supplies company cocktails and receptions with producers from Loire-Atlantique. Breakfast is made from fresh, local and seasonal products sourced within a short radius.
History and setting
Le Lieu Dit took over a former hotel and was designed as a village square for its district, with the hotel, the pizzeria, the grocery and the hall around one courtyard. The team describes it as a neighborhood hotel that is citizen-minded and festive. The Gaudinière park is nearby.
Getting there
The hotel is close to the tram and to route de Vannes, one of the main roads into Nantes, about 20 minutes from the city center by tram. Street parking in the district is free; the hotel has no car park but provides secure parking for bikes and cargo bikes. The Machines de l'Île are about 20 minutes away by tram and the Château des Ducs de Bretagne about 25 minutes.
