Orangerie du Château Marith hosts study days, residential seminars, team-building programmes, company meals and weddings. Its two meeting rooms take 50 and 100 participants, and two dining rooms seat 55 and 120 guests. Rooms and suites lodge the group on site. The estate stands in a 5-hectare riverside park at Clairac, in Lot-et-Garonne, facing a private 19th-century château.
Seminars and company events
The venue sells day packages and residential packages. Its meeting rooms are equipped with a video projector, a screen, a pointer, a whiteboard, a paperboard, microphones and Wi-Fi, and both have daylight. Each can be set up in theatre, U, classroom or banquet style. The venue states a capacity range of 16 to 100 people for its meeting rooms.
Residential seminar guests have access to all facilities, including the outdoor pool in summer. Activities near Clairac include canoeing, kayaking, mountain biking, horse riding, hiking, golf, karting, an escape game, a murder party and visits to local hazelnut or prune museums. Business travellers can also book an overnight package with dinner, bed and breakfast.
Weddings and receptions
Couples have married at the estate, which offers a lay ceremony in the château park, a bright reception room and an all-inclusive catering offer covering the vin d'honneur, the wedding dinner and the next-day brunch. Guests can stay on site. Family celebrations such as christenings are also hosted.
Rooms and capacities
Salle Hortensias measures 80 m² and takes up to 50 people. It is on the ground floor with step-free access and looks over the park. Salle Hydrangéa measures 120 m² and takes up to 100 people. It is on the first floor, reached by stairs only, and opens onto the park.
For meals, Salle Châtaignier covers 100 m² and seats 55 on the ground floor. Salle Marronnier covers 200 m² and seats 120. Its large bay windows open onto a patio planted with Mediterranean species, and it can serve as a meeting room for more than 100 people, though its brightness rules out projection. Gravel parking takes 60 vehicles, and a meadow adds space for about 50 more in good weather.
Accommodation
The orangery has 25 rooms and a dormitory, with 71 beds in all. Categories range from double rooms of 19 to 20 m² to triples, quadruples and suites of two or four bedrooms for up to 11 guests. Some rooms have air conditioning or a private terrace, and an accessible room is available on request. Breakfast is served from 7 to 8:30 a.m., and self check-in is possible after 6 p.m.
Catering
Meals are served at the Lounge de l'Orangerie, the on-site restaurant with an air-conditioned room and a terrace. For groups it serves seated lunches or dinners, buffets, sharing dishes and standing lunches or dinners. The team adapts the offer to each brief. In the evening the lounge serves sharing boards, burgers and large salads.
History and setting
The current owners, a family, took over the estate in 2018 and have restored part of it each year since. The park has century-old trees, footpaths, a fountain, statues, a pond and a river, with cedars, lime trees and horse chestnuts. The guests' rooms are in the orangery, and the château itself remains private.
Getting there
The estate is at 999 route d'Aiguillon in Clairac, 15 minutes from exit 6 of the A62 motorway. Bordeaux is about one hour away by road and Toulouse about one hour 30 minutes. Agen, Marmande and Villeneuve-sur-Lot are close by.
