Cabanes des Grands Chênes take study days, residential seminars and custom company events for up to 70 participants, on a 40-hectare forest estate that can be booked in part or in full. Work sessions take place in a room inside the Château de Raray; meals are served at the estate's restaurant, La Verrière; and the group sleeps in 25 treehouses set in two-hundred-year-old oaks. The estate lies in Raray, in the Oise department, 50 minutes north of Paris and close to Chantilly.
Seminars and company events
Three formats are offered. The study day runs from Monday to Friday, for strategy meetings, workshops or executive committees. The residential seminar, from Monday to Saturday, adds a night in the treehouses. Custom events, any day of the week, cover product launches, influencer events and brand presentations. The team prepares the rooms before the group arrives and handles the event from start to finish.
Team building draws on the forest and the region: nature, sports and wellness activities, built to order. Massages are given in the wellness space next to reception. The Raray golf course and tennis courts are next to the estate.
Rooms and capacities
- Salle du Château de Raray: 70 square meters, bright and flexible, equipped for work sessions.
- Le Verger: listed among the seminar spaces; size and layout not published.
- La Verrière restaurant: a fully glazed dining room with a large outdoor terrace, for lunches, dinners and breaks. It can also be booked in full for a private group.
The estate gives a maximum of 70 participants for a seminar.
Accommodation
The 25 treehouses are all different. Duo treehouses take two people and family treehouses two to six. Perched treehouses sit 10 to 13 meters up in the oaks and are reached by stairs or ladders. Treehouses on stilts, 5 to 7 meters high, take up to five or six people. The Lov'Nid treehouses are wooden spheres reached by a rope bridge. All have water, electricity, heating, a bathroom with shower, a coffee machine and full bedding; most have a heated private Nordic bath. Breakfast is included.
Catering
Meal options cover breakfast, brunch, aperitif and dinner, with local partners and produce. La Verrière, renovated and next to reception, serves sharing boards and set menus of two or three courses, indoors or on its terrace. Dinner baskets made with local, seasonal products can be delivered to the treehouses.
History and setting
The estate shares its land with the Château de Raray, a 17th-century listed historic monument. Jean Cocteau shot his film Beauty and the Beast there in 1945, and the château's sculpted gardens are still part of the walk. The forest and golf course lie within the Oise-Pays de France regional nature park. The estate has held the EU Ecolabel since December 2024. It belongs to Coucoo Cabanes, which runs nine treehouse estates in seven French regions.
Getting there
The address for GPS is 1 rue Jean Cocteau, 60810 Raray. By car the estate is 50 minutes from Paris, 1 hour 45 from Lille and 2 hours 45 from Brussels, with three charging points for electric cars. The nearest stations are Pont-Sainte-Maxence and Crépy-en-Valois, each 15 minutes by road, and Chantilly, 30 minutes away. Trains from Paris Gare du Nord reach Crépy-en-Valois in 50 minutes, and a local taxi can meet the group.
