Villa Aïtama can host seminars, team-building days and private celebrations for up to 47 guests, with the whole villa hired exclusively. It is a Basque-style house made of nine apartments and 17 bedrooms in the oyster-farming village of Le Canon, in the commune of Lège-Cap-Ferret on the Bassin d'Arcachon.
Seminars and company events
The villa runs residential seminars, co-management meetings and team-building days. A dedicated meeting room seats up to 12 people. For groups of up to 40, the villa works with a partner that provides a larger room. The home page states a total of 35 people for a seminar held at the villa itself. Teams sleep on site, breakfast is included, and the private garden can serve as an extra space for a break. The villa suggests activities for cohesion: a treasure hunt on foot or by bike, and a trip on an oyster-farming boat to the Île aux Oiseaux with a local sailor. A tasting of oysters and seafood facing the bay, with a visit of the production sheds, is also offered. Boat and bike rental are available.
Weddings and receptions
The villa can be hired entirely for weddings, christenings, birthdays and other family events, for up to 47 people. The private garden is suggested for a banquet, a secular ceremony or a musical aperitif. Guests keep a private apartment each, which suits events lasting more than one day.
Rooms and capacities
The meeting room takes up to 12 people. The private garden is the outdoor space for banquets, ceremonies and receptions, and the site gives no surface or seated figure for it. For larger meetings, the partner room accommodates up to 40. Exclusive use of the villa gathers 47 guests across the nine apartments.
Accommodation
The nine apartments range from a 20 m² studio for two to a 59 m² four-room apartment for seven. Mimbeau (59 m², 7 people), Jeanne Blanc (38 m², 6), Grand Banc (41 m², 6), Courbey (48 m², 6), Tourlinguet (42 m², 6), Marens (41 m², 6), Hautebelle (48 m², 6), Canelon (20 m², 2) and Moussettes (21 m², 2) add up to 47 beds. Each has a fully equipped kitchen, a shower room, a balcony or terrace, a flat-screen TV and wifi. One three-room apartment of 48 m² is designed for guests with reduced mobility. The villa has a private garden and a private car park.
Catering
The villa does not describe an in-house restaurant. Breakfast is included for seminar groups, and lunches and dinners are taken at a partner restaurant a few steps away. Oyster and seafood tastings take place at the Réveleau family hut facing the bay.
History and setting
The name Aïtama combines Aïtonia, grandfather, and Ama, grandmother. The house was founded by Philippe and Patricia Réveleau as a tribute to a grandfather who farmed oysters and played the clarinet and to a grandmother who farmed oysters and loved to travel. The villa stands 50 m from the Canon beach, among the colored fishermen's huts of the bay.
Getting there
The villa is at 171 route du Cap Ferret, in Le Canon. The point of Cap Ferret is five minutes away by car, and the ocean beaches are ten minutes by bike. Bordeaux-Mérignac airport is 55 km away, about 50 minutes by road.
