Groups of 6 to 50 people can hold a seminar, a board meeting or a team retreat at the Relais de Chambord, and couples can privatize the whole hotel for a wedding with up to 120 guests staying on site. The Relais de Chambord is a boutique hotel in Chambord, in the Loire Valley, and the only hotel inside the 5,440-hectare national estate of the Château de Chambord, which stands directly opposite.
Seminars and company events
The hotel has one seminar room and two modular meeting rooms, sized for groups of 6 to 50 people. Each room has a flat-screen TV, ClickShare wireless screen sharing, fiber Wi-Fi and conference calling. The seminar room adds a video projector and a sound system. Mineral water, a flipchart, notepads and pens are set out for each session.
Breaks and meals are designed with the hotel restaurant, Le Grand Saint-Michel, and adapted to each group. For teams that want more than a meeting, the hotel runs a three-day, two-night retreat with the Beaux Arts Institute: talks with guest speakers such as conductors, art historians and sommeliers, private visits of the château, chamber music concerts and walks in the vineyards. Team activities on the estate include 4x4 outings in the park to watch its wildlife and plants and guided tours of the château. The hotel also lists bike rides, hot-air balloon flights and visits to old vineyards nearby.
Weddings and receptions
For a wedding, the hotel is hired in full, so guests have every space to themselves from the ceremony to the end of the evening: the bar and its billiard room, the restaurant, the outdoor terraces and the banks of the Cosson river. Up to 120 guests can stay in the rooms and junior suites. The team can also arrange access to parts of the château or to private areas of the Chambord forest. Birthdays, proposals and family reunions are hosted too.
Rooms and capacities
The three meeting rooms take groups of 6 to 50. The restaurant, the bar with billiards, the terraces and the riverbank serve as reception spaces when the hotel is privatized.
Accommodation
Bedrooms range from Cosy rooms, some with a river view, to Superior and Deluxe rooms, Junior Suites with a château view and family rooms. La Toue du Relais is a traditional flat-bottomed Loire boat converted into a suite for two. The spa offers Anne Semonin treatments, a hammam, a sauna and an outdoor hot tub that looks onto the château.
Catering
Le Grand Saint-Michel handles all catering in-house. For weddings, the chef's team prepares the cocktail hour with hot and cold canapés and a gastronomic dinner menu, with options for a late-night party, a night buffet and a brunch the next day.
History and setting
The building was once a relay post serving the hunting estate that King Francis I created around his château in the sixteenth century. Architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte renovated it in 2018, keeping the historic structure and turning it into a contemporary boutique hotel. The château is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and the estate is described by the hotel as the largest enclosed nature reserve in Europe.
Getting there
Chambord is 170 km from Paris, under two hours by car, and 20 minutes from Blois. Trains from Paris Austerlitz or Montparnasse stop at Blois-Chambord or Mer, and a bus from Porte Maillot takes about 2 hours 45 minutes. The hotel arranges transfers on request from the station, an airport or Paris. Cars use the hotel parking at the château entrance.
