Manoir de la Poterie hosts residential and day seminars, study days, product launches, incentives and private receptions, with a meeting room for up to 40 people and 24 rooms on site. The hotel can also be privatized for family celebrations, weddings, club gatherings and company events. It is a four-star hotel with a spa in Cricquebœuf, a village on the Côte Fleurie between Honfleur and Deauville, 400 meters from the sea.
Seminars and company events
The hotel organizes residential and semi-residential seminars, study days, product launches and company meetings, with a dedicated coordinator for each group. The Salon Cricqueboeuf is the main meeting room. Wi-Fi, a video projector, a screen, a flipchart and a coffee machine are included. For groups of 6 to 10, the Salon Louis XVI and some Louis XVI or Directoire style bedrooms are set up as breakout rooms. Incentive activities on site include access to the spa, the pool, the sauna and the hammam, and treatments in the spa cabins. With partners, the hotel arranges Lotus driving courses, 4x4 outings in the Pays d'Auge, helicopter flights, 2CV rallies, quad rides, karting, sand yachting, bowling in Deauville, a casino evening, karaoke, cooking classes and murder parties.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel can be privatized for family meals such as weddings, christenings, birthdays and communions, and for gatherings of car clubs, associations and collectors. The lounge with fireplace and piano opens onto the garden, and a sheltered terrace serves for drinks. The pool area can also be privatized.
Rooms and capacities
The Salon Cricqueboeuf measures 70 square meters, is air-conditioned and has daylight and a view over the park. It takes up to 40 participants. The Salon Louis XVI and converted bedrooms serve groups of 6 to 10. The restaurant, the lounge bar and the terrace complete the spaces for meals and breaks.
Accommodation
The hotel has 23 rooms and one suite, set in a park of about 2 hectares. Rooms face the Seine estuary or open onto the lawn. Categories range from Double Confort to Double Exécutive, Quadruple Exécutive and the Suite, and rooms take up to four people. One Supérieure room on the first floor is adapted for reduced mobility, with a lift. Spa access is included in room rates.
Catering
The restaurant Le Louis XVI serves home-made cooking based on Normandy produce, with salmon smoked on site over beech wood and fish landed at Honfleur. Dinner is served Thursday to Monday. Meals can also be taken on the garden terrace or by the lounge fireplace.
History and setting
The owners opened the hotel in April 2001 with 18 rooms. A new building added in 2005 led to the spa in June 2006, a suite, five more rooms and the seminar room in 2007. The name recalls the potters who lived in Cricquebœuf in the 16th century. The Les Thermes spa covers 450 square meters, with a heated indoor pool, a hammam, a sauna and a 120 square meter solarium.
Getting there
The hotel is at 81 chemin Paul Ruel in Cricquebœuf, on the coast road D513. Deauville-Trouville station and Deauville-Normandie airport are both 7.7 km away; the TGV station at Le Havre is 32 km away. Paris is about two hours by car via the A13 and two and a half hours by train. Free private parking holds up to 40 vehicles, with three charging points.
