Airial de Lachayre takes weddings, seminars, team-building days and family gatherings of up to 150 guests at a seated meal or 200 at a cocktail, with 46 beds on site. The estate, open since June 2024, is a restored Landes farm at 2162 route de Mont de Marsan in Lacquy, in the Bas-Armagnac area of the Landes, a few minutes from Mont-de-Marsan.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells seminars, general meetings, product launches, company anniversaries, leadership meetings, team building and award ceremonies. The reception hall has a projector, a mobile speaker with microphone and fiber Wi-Fi. A team can sleep in the two gîtes and work, eat and relax without leaving the property. The hall alone can be booked from Tuesday to Thursday for an 8-hour day, within four months of the date; other formats and longer stays are quoted on request.
Activities can be run on site with outside providers: Gascon skittles, pétanque, orienteering, archery, yoga, Pilates, fencing, cycling or Segway. Food and wine workshops cover Armagnac, floc de Gascogne and local specialties such as tourtière, and visits to producers can be arranged. Nearby are an 18-hole golf course at Saint-Avit, about 12 minutes away, and the Transibérique cycle path, about 10 minutes away.
Weddings and receptions
For a wedding the whole 3.8-hectare estate is privatized, usually from Friday noon to Monday 11 a.m. Couples choose their own suppliers, and the owners can recommend those they trust. Ceremonies can be held outside in the airial, the oak-shaded yard at the heart of a Landes farm, and drinks served from the outdoor bar near the pergola. Guests sleep in the gîtes, and a meadow is set aside for tents, with dry toilets. The owners provide a list of other gîtes nearby for extra guests.
Rooms and capacities
L'Encantada is a new 270 m² building clad in local pine, with large black aluminum windows on three sides. It holds an air-conditioned reception room of 200 m² with a bar, toilets, storage and a caterer's kitchen. The room can seat up to 199, but 150 is recommended when a drinks area or a dance floor is needed. It comes with 150 chairs, 13 round tables of 180 cm, square and rectangular tables, and tableware for 150.
The park offers several outdoor spots: the airial, a meadow, the pergola, the old bread oven and a large holm oak, plus a children's play area.
Accommodation
Two gîtes provide 46 beds in 13 bedrooms. La Landaise, a renovated stone farmhouse with solid wood furniture and beams, sleeps 15 and has a shared living room and kitchen. La Grange, a converted barn, sleeps 31 in seven family rooms, each with its own shower room and outside entrance. Both gîtes are air-conditioned, and each has a room adapted for guests with reduced mobility. The estate is rated three épis by Gîtes de France.
Catering
There is no in-house restaurant. Clients bring the caterer of their choice, who works in the hall's kitchen, equipped with a stainless-steel worktop, an oven, a dishwasher and a fridge. The outdoor bar has a cold room and a freezer.
Getting there
Lacquy sits where the D933 and D934 roads meet, about 9 minutes from an A65 motorway exit and about 20 minutes from Mont-de-Marsan station. The car park holds 50 cars and two coaches, and there is an electric-vehicle charging point. Shops are within five minutes at Pouydesseaux and Gaillères.
