Martin's Château du Lac can host anything from a board meeting of 10 to a conference of about 1,050 people, with 23 meeting rooms, a reception room for weddings of up to 800 guests, gardens and courtyards. The hotel stands on the shore of Lac de Genval, in the town of Genval in Walloon Brabant, south-east of Brussels.
Seminars and company events
The meetings offer is built around flexibility. The hotel lists 23 rooms that can be arranged in different ways, from a boardroom for a small committee to a hall able to seat a full conference in theatre style. Day packages cover a half day or a full day and include an equipped room, lunch and breaks, and residential seminars add bedrooms on site. Team-building activities are offered, with a dedicated program and the option of a tailored plan. Floor plans, capacity charts and a meetings brochure are available from the events team.
For product launches, dinners and gala evenings, the largest room, Argentine, holds up to 1,050 guests standing or in theatre layout and 850 at a banquet. The hotel also counts its gardens and courtyards in its event offer, which allows a cocktail outdoors in good weather.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are sold as a full package. Ceremonies can be held outdoors on the lawns that slope down to the lake, with the château behind. The reception room welcomes up to 800 guests, and the in-house team handles cocktails, seated dinners, buffets and tapas formats. Music and open-bar packages can be added for the evening, and champagne can be served on the lakeshore when the weather allows. The couple has a wedding night suite and guests receive preferential room rates.
Rooms and capacities
Four rooms are published with detailed figures. Argentine: 1,050 theatre, 762 classroom, 750 cabaret, 850 banquet, 1,050 cocktail. Guillaume Tell: 306 theatre, 202 classroom, 180 cabaret, 270 banquet, 500 cocktail. Arcades: 90 theatre, 42 classroom, 60 cabaret, 80 banquet, 150 cocktail. Boardroom D seats 17 around one table. The other rooms appear in the floor plans the hotel sends on request.
Accommodation
Bedrooms come in four styles, and breakfast is included in the room rate. Room service runs from noon to 10 pm. The wellness center covers 1,500 square meters, with a rooftop terrace, body and facial treatments, a gym and classes such as yoga, Pilates and spinning, which can fill free time in a seminar program.
Catering
Genval.Les.Bains, the hotel restaurant, serves French cuisine, and a bar completes the offer. Event catering is handled by the in-house team, from coffee breaks and working lunches to banquets and late receptions.
History and setting
The château was built in 1906 in a Lorraine style. It first served as a thermal spa, then housed a Schweppes bottling plant, and opened as a hotel in 1985. Its position on the lake gives most events a view over the water, and the lawns are used for both ceremonies and summer cocktails.
Getting there
The hotel is at Avenue du Lac 87, 1332 Genval, with free outdoor parking for guests. Genval has a railway station on the line between Brussels and Ottignies, and Brussels Airport is reachable by road, which suits groups arriving from abroad.
