Château de Grosbois, in Marolles-en-Brie east of Paris, rents rooms for board meetings, study days, receptions and large shows. The estate covers 412 hectares and offers spaces from 30 to 1,700 square meters. The official page describes everything from an executive committee of fifteen in the business area to a dinner show for a thousand guests in the covered riding hall.
Seminars and company events
The business area, the Espace Affaires, covers 120 square meters and is designed for groups of 15 to 30 people. It consists of a seminar room of 73 square meters upstairs, a lounge of 38 square meters for breaks and a terrace. The room can be reconfigured, is soundproofed and has Wi-Fi and a flat screen. For a plenary session, the trotting museum on the ground floor of the château has a hall of 120 square meters, the Hall des Immortels, and a projection room of 38 square meters. Smaller lounges in the museum suit workshops in small groups.
The estate also offers logistics support and team-building activities organised by its own staff.
Weddings and receptions
The venue promotes receptions and seminars. Weddings are not named on the pages consulted, so ask before planning one. For gala dinners, the château offers a dance salon of 120 square meters, a dining room of 70 square meters and the Galerie des Batailles of 124 square meters. The orangery adds a hall of 440 square meters with a 100 square meter reception hall, cloakrooms, a caterer's office and a movable partition in the middle. Its private English garden covers 5,000 square meters.
Rooms and capacities
The château spaces total 800 square meters: entrance hall (68), passage lounge (60), dining room (70), dance salon (120) and Galerie des Batailles (124). The museum spaces total 500 square meters. The honor courtyard is 1,500 square meters and is shared by the château and the museum. The orangery totals 600 square meters. The covered riding hall measures about 1,800 square meters under a paneled barrel vault more than 13 meters high. It is suited to shows, fashion shows, showrooms, auctions and sports competitions.
The official page does not give seated capacities per room, except the dinner show for 1,000 in the riding hall.
Catering
The orangery has a caterer's office. The page does not state whether the estate has its own caterer or lets you choose one, so confirm this in your request.
History and setting
The château is a seventeenth-century French residence with restored brick and stone facades. The estate is also a training center for French trotters, with up to 1,500 horses in peak season, a trotting school, a trotting museum opened in 2010 and a documentation center. The Napoleonic period is part of the estate's story.
Getting there
The estate lies at the gates of Paris, less than 15 km from the Paris-Vincennes racecourse, at 46 avenue de Grosbois, 94440 Marolles-en-Brie.
