Résidence l'Oustal del Carlat takes seminars for up to 50 people in its own meeting room and up to 100 people with a municipal hall a short walk away, and it can house groups of up to 300. The site is a three-star holiday residence on the edge of the lake at Carla-Bayle, a hilltop village in the Ariège, with the Pyrenees on the horizon.
Seminars and company events
The residence has a seminar and group offer, aimed at companies, associations and sports or leisure groups that want to work and stay in the same place. The meeting room on site receives daylight and suits a working day, a training course or a team retreat. For a larger plenary session, the residence works with the village's municipal hall, five minutes away on foot, which seats up to 100 people. Meeting rooms can be booked for a weekend, from Friday evening to Sunday morning, as well as for weekday stays.
Between sessions, teams have the leisure area of the residence: boules, beach volleyball, a multisport court, tennis, a heated outdoor pool in season and a solarium. Hiking and running paths start from the site, and supervised swimming in the lake is offered in July and August. These make it easy to plan team activities without transport.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting room at the residence measures 100 square meters and takes up to 50 people. The partner municipal hall takes up to 100. The residence states a maximum accommodation capacity of 300 people for groups, who can also stay without booking a meeting room.
Accommodation
The residence has 60 houses, laid out as duplexes or triplexes, five of them accessible to guests with reduced mobility. Standard houses have two bedrooms for four people or three bedrooms for six; superior houses have three bedrooms and two bathrooms; the largest have four bedrooms for eight. Every house has a living and dining room with a fitted kitchen, a dishwasher, a microwave, a fridge and freezer, a TV, wifi and parking. For seminars, the residence also offers single occupancy of a bedroom within a shared house. A minimum stay of two nights applies at some periods.
Catering
The site does not describe a restaurant or a catering service. Each house has a full kitchen, and a barbecue area is available to guests, so groups can cook for themselves or bring in a caterer of their choice; this should be agreed with the residence when booking.
History and setting
Carla-Bayle is a village of the Ariège set on a ridge above its lake, with views to the Pyrenees. The residence sits on the lake shore, below the village, in open countryside.
Getting there
The residence is about 45 minutes by road from Toulouse and its airport, and about 1 hour 30 minutes from Carcassonne. Free parking is included with each house, which suits groups arriving by car or coach.
