The Domaine de la Grande Noë can host team seminars, away days and team building with an overnight stay, for groups of up to 30 people sleeping on site in single beds. The estate has one meeting room, eight cabins, seven of them built in the trees, and a guest room at the farm. It lies at Moulicent, now part of Longny les Villages, in the Orne department of Normandy, inside the Parc naturel régional du Perche.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells seminars, team building and other team days, with reception, a visit of the grounds, meals, activities and a night in the trees. Its published sample program for a seminar runs over two days:
Day one: arrival of the group in late morning and a tour of the estate, a buffet lunch indoors or outside, a meeting or an activity indoors or outside, discovery of the cabins and check-in, then a plancha dinner with grilled food and a night in a treehouse.
Day two: breakfast, either up in the cabins or all together, followed by departure, another activity or a further meeting.
The estate also gives its figures for groups: 8 cabins, 7 of them perched, 8 raised terraces, 1 meeting room, and 12 individual rooms or 30 single beds. The capacity of the meeting room itself is not published.
Rooms and capacities
Meeting room: one room for working sessions; capacity to confirm with the estate.
Outdoor grounds: 135 hectares of organic farmland and woods, with paths for walking and cycling, a pétanque court, table tennis, giant wooden games, cornhole and children's archery.
FilO'Parc: an adventure course in nets among the trees, with no harness, trampolines, ball pits, swings, a maze and ground-level zip lines, for about one and a half hours of play.
Accommodation
The eight cabins range from ground level to 16 meters high. Chêne Fou groups two cabins up to 10 meters and a terrace at 14 meters in a single tree. Suricate sleeps up to 8, Odyssée 4 to 6 by the water, Monkey Tree and Echauguette 5 each, Ouistiti up to 4 adults, La Fermette a couple with one or two children, and Paradiso, the highest at 16 meters, a couple. The cabins have no water or electricity and use dry toilets. Showers, toilets, including an accessible shower, and charging points are in a restored 17th-century henhouse. Beds come made with cotton sheets and duvets, and towels and toiletries are supplied. The farm guest room, about 18 square meters, has its own entrance and bathroom.
Catering
For seminars the estate serves a buffet lunch, a plancha dinner and breakfast. For other stays it prepares cold meal baskets from local produce, hoisted up to the cabin terrace by pulley: terrines and rillettes from an organic farm nearby, Perche cheeses, homemade desserts, organic cider and apple juice from the estate's land, and beer from a Perche brewery.
History and setting
The château has passed down by inheritance since 1393 and the family has held the land for more than 600 years. Its oldest central part was extended with a wing in the 17th century and a hunting pavilion in the early 19th century, when the facade was redesigned; two round towers on the north side keep a medieval look. The courtyard gathers traditional Perche buildings: stables, a dovecote with a bread oven, a cart shed and an orangery. Family members run the treehouses and the organic farm, where horses are bred.
Getting there
The address is La Grande Noë, 61290 Moulicent. The estate is under two hours by road from Paris, Rouen, Caen and Le Mans, between Évreux, Chartres and Alençon. Cabin access follows a briefing in the late afternoon, and cabins are vacated at 11 a.m.
