Les Tourelles hosts seminars, study days and team retreats for up to 60 people in theatre layout, with meeting room, bedrooms and restaurant under one roof. It is a three-star hotel with 35 rooms, on the beach of Le Crotoy, at 2-4 rue Pierre Guerlain, facing the Baie de Somme.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells day and residential seminars built around one modular room. The room covers 60 square meters, has daylight and comes with an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive screen, a flipchart, private Wi-Fi, eco-friendly paper supplies and a coffee machine. The team follows the group throughout the event and prepares menus to measure for meetings and business meals.
Outdoor activities are organized with local partners in winter and summer. The hotel lists sea walking, a guided crossing of the bay on foot, a visit to the Parc du Marquenterre and its migrating birds, escape games, and walks and visits around Le Crotoy. The hotel also rents bikes to its guests on request, which suits a short team ride along the bay.
Rooms and capacities
The seminar room takes 60 people in theatre layout, 32 in islands, 28 in a U shape and 26 around a boardroom table. For a group meal, the restaurant has two dining rooms with a total of 120 covers and two terraces, one facing south over the bay and one on the garden side for windy days. The lounge and bar, with tea, board games and a selection of whiskies, gives the group a quiet space after the sessions.
Accommodation
The hotel has 35 double rooms, with a view of the sea or of the garden and village, two of them adapted for guests with reduced mobility. Room categories include Dunes, Estrans, Galets and Molières, from compact doubles with shower to larger rooms with bath and sea view. Triple and quadruple rooms take extra beds, and a six-bed dormitory called the Matelots can house younger participants. Dogs are accepted in rooms.
Catering
The restaurant serves family-style cooking based on produce from the land and the sea of the area, at lunch, in continuous service in the afternoon, and at dinner, seven days a week. Head chef David Raoult and his team work with regional producers. House classics include mussels, fish soup, shrimp croquettes, seafood platters and salt-meadow lamb from the bay. Breakfast is served at the hotel.
History and setting
The hotel stands in a historic building on the seafront of Le Crotoy, on what it describes as the only south-facing beach in the north of France. It follows an eco-attentive approach, has carried out a carbon assessment and holds the EU Ecolabel. The same owners run two other hotels, Plein Ciel in the mountains and Les Sorbiers on a riverbank. The hotel closes each year for a few weeks in January and February; check the dates when planning.
Getting there
The nearest train stations are Rue and Noyelles-sur-Mer, from where buses, the Baie de Somme tourist railway, bikes and other local transport reach Le Crotoy. The hotel promotes low-carbon travel and shares information on trains and car-sharing. By road, it is within reach of Paris, Lille, Amiens and Brussels.
