Château de la Rousselière can host study days, seminars, team-building days, company parties and weddings for 8 to 300 guests. Its main room, the Salle du Pressoir, takes up to 300 people and opens onto a large terrace and the park. The estate lies in Frossay, in the Pays de Retz in Loire-Atlantique, between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.
Seminars and company events
The business arm of the estate, La Rousselière Événement, sells study days, seminars, incentives, team building, after-work events, cocktails and evening parties. Meetings and working sessions run for 30 to 300 people in the Salle du Pressoir, the château salons, a marquee and the gardens. The site lists ready-made formats: a study day built around the Pressoir, a cocktail format, a wine-tasting format, adventure and strategy days, a forest adventure, a driving and discovery day, a Christmas party for staff families and themed evenings such as a guinguette party.
The main selling point for teams is that the meeting rooms and the Définature leisure park are on the same estate and within walking distance. The park offers tree-top courses and paintball, and the estate covers some 30 hectares in all. Charlotte Scherer and her team can deliver a seminar as a turnkey package or build it to order.
Weddings and receptions
The former press house of the château is the wedding room. It covers 300 square meters with exposed stone and beams and opens onto a 500-square-meter terrace facing the lawn and hydrangeas, used for cocktails, bands and buffets. The terrace is equipped for a tent of up to 300 square meters. Photos are usually taken in front of the château or in the park, where horses graze.
The room comes with an equipped kitchen and a 12-square-meter cold room, furniture, cloakrooms and toilets, a 30-square-meter nursery with cots and a changing table, and a 10-square-meter storeroom available from the Monday before the event. Lighting, illumination of the château and heating are included. The lit car park holds 200 cars.
Rooms and capacities
- Salle du Pressoir: 300 square meters, up to 300 people, stone and beams, opens onto the terrace.
- Terrace: 500 square meters, can take a tent of up to 300 square meters.
- Château salons: used for meetings and receptions; capacity not published.
- Nursery: 30 square meters, for children during receptions.
Accommodation
Three guest rooms in the 18th-century part of the château look over the park: the Marquise and Marquis rooms each have a 160 cm double bed, and the Demoiselle room has two single beds. Each has its own bathroom, and breakfast is served in the château salons. A group gîte in the west wing sleeps up to 15 people in four bedrooms, with a large kitchen, two bathrooms and a private garden with a barbecue. Other guests will need nearby hotels and rentals, and the estate keeps a list.
Catering
The equipped kitchen is there for your caterer. You are free to choose your supplier, and the estate shares names it has worked with. For company events, themed meals and grills can be arranged through La Rousselière Événement.
History and setting
The château was built in the 18th century and stands in a park and woodland of century-old oaks. The same family runs the reception business, the guest rooms and the leisure park. Visits are by appointment.
Getting there
Frossay lies south of the Loire estuary. The estate gives 30 minutes to Nantes and La Baule, and 20 minutes to Saint-Nazaire and Pornic.
