Mas de Fauchon hosts study days, residential seminars, business meals, company parties, private celebrations and weddings. The estate can be booked exclusively, with its 16 rooms and all its reception spaces. It is a family-run hotel and restaurant in a former 18th-century sheepfold at 1666 Chemin de Berre in Saint-Cannat, in the countryside between Aix-en-Provence and Salon-de-Provence, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
Seminars and company events
The hotel sells study days, residential seminars, business lunches and company parties. Its meeting rooms have natural daylight and come with a flipchart, stationery, a projection screen, a video projector and Wi-Fi. Other equipment, such as a sound system, can be hired on quote. In fine weather, welcome coffee, breaks and meals move to the terrace, and the outdoor spaces suit team-building activities.
For a residential seminar, the 16 rooms can be set up with 12 in twin beds, which makes room sharing easier. The restaurant opens for groups of more than 10 people outside its regular hours, for company meals and seminars.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are organized with the owners. Barbara follows the couple through the planning, from first contact to the day itself, and handles coordination. Nicolas, the chef, builds the menu with the couple. The whole Mas can be privatized, with all the rooms and reception spaces, and 46 beds are available on site for guests. Receptions can be held in the park, and the property also hosts birthdays, christenings, communions and family meals.
Rooms and capacities
The hotel does not publish the names, sizes or capacities of its event rooms. It describes them as daylight rooms, used alongside the terrace, the restaurant and the park. Ask the team for the layouts and guest numbers that fit your event before you plan the day.
Accommodation
The 16 rooms are set apart from the main building, among oaks and pines, and each has a private terrace with direct access to the park. All are on one level, air-conditioned, with a flat-screen TV, free internet, minibar and safe. There are four categories: Comfort rooms of about 25 m², Deluxe rooms of about 28 m², Grand Comfort rooms of about 38 m² with a sitting area, and Family rooms of about 40 m² for up to four people. One room is adapted for guests with reduced mobility. Check-in is from 4 p.m. and check-out before 11 a.m. The hotel is open all year, apart from an annual closure in late winter.
The park has a 14 by 7 meter swimming pool, unheated and open from early May to late October, two large pétanque courts and walking paths from the gate. Bikes and massages can be booked, and drinks are served throughout the day in the park. Private, closed parking is available.
Catering
The restaurant is run by chef Nicolas Chouchanian, who grew up at the Mas and returned to the family business after training elsewhere. He cooks a seasonal, regional menu that changes often, uses produce from the estate's vegetable garden and likes to work with aged meat and whole fish. For events, menus are agreed with him.
History and setting
The Mas is a former sheepfold dating from the 18th century, taken over by Barbara and Nicolas, who now run it as a family house. It stands in a wooded park in the countryside around Aix, a starting point for the Alpilles, the Luberon, the Vaucluse and the Calanques.
Getting there
The hotel is close to Aix-en-Provence TGV station and to Marseille Provence airport. Saint-Cannat lies between Aix-en-Provence and Salon-de-Provence.
