Maison du Val can host residential seminars and team retreats for up to 60 people, with 49 bedrooms and 8 meeting rooms on one site. It is a 4-star hotel in the Saint-Germain-en-Laye forest, in the Yvelines department west of Paris, run by the group Les Maisons de Campagne.
Seminars and company events
During the week the house is given over to companies. The operator sells a residential seminar package that bundles an equipped meeting room, a buffet lunch, break service, an aperitif, a seated dinner, a bedroom with breakfast and self-service activities. The aim is a single price per person with nothing to add on site. The meeting rooms include a wireless presentation system, audiovisual equipment and office supplies.
The house also offers a plenary room, bright working rooms and informal corners. Sessions can move to the garden or to sofa areas next to the more classic worktables. A dedicated team plans the days with you, and the operator describes the format as more informal and less standardized than a conference hotel.
Rooms and capacities
The official seminar page gives 8 meeting rooms and a maximum of 60 people for a seminar. The restaurant seats 75 people indoors. The group page for all its houses mentions up to 65 people for Maison du Val, so confirm the figure for your layout when you ask for a quote. Room-by-room surfaces are not listed on the pages we read.
La Grange, an outbuilding of the main house, has 9 bedrooms and 2 lounges. It can be taken over as a whole by a group, with a fireplace in the lounge area.
Accommodation
The hotel has 49 bedrooms and 94 beds. Rooms can be used as single, double or twin. The seminar package includes a buffet breakfast the next morning. Guests can also use the cinema room, the arcade and billiards in the Galerie des Portraits, and the Nordic baths, which are open from age 14.
Catering
The chef writes the menus. Lunch is a buffet, with wines, water and soft drinks served self-service. Dinner is a plated menu of starter, main course, cheese and dessert, the same for every guest and changed weekly with the season, outside school holidays and weekends. The aperitif follows the products the chef selects, and an after-dinner bar with a candy bar stays open until 2 a.m. A restaurant with a series of decorated lounges is open to guests.
History and setting
The house was a hunting lodge of Louis XIV. It stands in a 4-hectare wooded park within the state forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and holds the Clef Verte environmental label. Leisure options listed for seminar groups include pétanque, mölkky, ping-pong, bicycles, walks in the forest and the Nordic baths.
Getting there
The address is Route Forestière des Brancas, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The group states 45 minutes from Paris for its other house, the Château de Villiers-le-Mahieu, but gives no travel time for Maison du Val. Ask the team for transfer options and parking before you plan arrivals.
