Château de Chenonceau

The Château de Chenonceau hires out its Orangerie for meetings, study days, conferences, cocktails and prestige receptions, with a large room for 120 people and a smaller salon for 25. Groups can add private visits of the château and its gardens. Chenonceau stands on the Cher in the village of Chenonceaux, in Indre-et-Loire, 34 kilometres from Tours.

Seminars and company events

The château presents its offer to companies as meetings, incentives, conferences and events, built to order. The Orangerie rooms are equipped and modular, so a plenary in the large room can be paired with a committee or a breakout session in the petit salon. A study day can end with a private visit of the château, a visit built around a chosen theme, or a botanical tour of the gardens. VIP welcomes are arranged on request, and a dedicated events team handles each enquiry.

Weddings and receptions

Receptions, cocktails and evening parties take place in the Orangerie. The château also stages Soirées Prestige, and its programme includes charity dinners with a cocktail, an auction and a gastronomic meal. Weddings do not appear among the services the château presents.

Rooms and capacities

The Orangerie has two rooms. The large room holds up to 120 people. The petit salon holds up to 25. The château does not publish separate theatre, banquet or standing figures, and gives no capacity for the gardens or the interiors of the château, which groups visit rather than hire as meeting rooms.

Catering

L'Orangerie also operates as the château's brunch restaurant and tea room. Elsewhere on the estate, a self-service restaurant occupies the former stables in the Dômes building, a crêperie stands near the ticket office and a food truck serves near the Diane de Poitiers parterre. The Caves des Dômes, a cellar under 16th-century vaults, hosts wine tastings. Menus for private events are prepared with the events team.

History and setting

Chenonceau is known for its galleries built on a bridge across the Cher, and for the women who owned, ran and protected it, Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Médicis among them. The present house dates from the early 16th century. It is a listed historic monument and lies within the Loire Valley World Heritage area. Its grounds include formal French gardens, a kitchen garden, a flower garden with its own floral workshop, and a maze.

Getting there

By car, Paris is 214 kilometres away, around two hours on the A10 with an exit at Amboise or Blois. By train, the TGV links Paris Montparnasse with Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, the Tours station, in about an hour, and Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport with the same station in about an hour too. A regional train then reaches Chenonceaux in about 25 minutes, and the station is about 400 metres from the ticket office, so a group can arrive without a coach.