The Domaine de la Pommeraie can host seminars, study days, business meals, team-building days and weddings, with a reception room for up to 100 guests and three modular meeting rooms. The site is a 17th-century manor in a 4-hectare wooded park at Bruz, about 15 minutes from the center of Rennes. It also runs as a serviced residence with 30 apartments and 64 beds, so a group can work, eat and sleep in the same place.
Seminars and company events
The Pommeraie has organized business events since 2014. It offers three conference and meeting rooms that are modular, air-conditioned and equipped. On request, the team provides a video projector and screen, a sound system, microphones, paperboards and Wi-Fi, and an annex coworking space is available for breakout work. The venue proposes a turnkey package for seminars, which groups the rooms, meals and lodging.
The rooms take daylight, and the park, with its century-old trees, is used for team activities. The venue suggests a half-day walking rally through the Bruz countryside and treasure hunts in the grounds. Business meals, cocktails and after-work events are also sold, as are cooking workshops led around a regional theme. The venue states that seating and lodging capacity can be adapted to each group.
Weddings and receptions
For weddings, birthdays and family receptions, the manor offers a reception room for up to 100 people and the 4-hectare park for the cocktail hour. The team helps with decoration, the choice of caterer and the running of key moments such as the cocktail, the meal and the evening. Guests can sleep on site, in the 64 beds of the residence. A price brochure for receptions and weddings is available on request.
Rooms and capacities
The reception room seats up to 100 people. The three meeting rooms are modular and air-conditioned; the venue does not publish their individual size or capacity, so confirm the layout you need, whether theater, U-shape or classroom, with the team.
Accommodation
The residence offers 30 furnished apartments, from studios to two-bedroom units, for one to six people. Each has a kitchenette, a sitting area, a dining corner, Wi-Fi, an HD television and a telephone. A Deluxe two-person apartment is also offered. A continental breakfast is served every morning. In all, the residence lists 64 beds, which covers a residential seminar or most of a wedding party.
Catering
Meals for seminars are handled by a partner caterer, with menus built on Breton produce. For weddings, the team helps you choose a caterer. Business lunches, cocktails and gala-style banquets in the enclosed park can be arranged.
History and setting
The Pommeraie was originally part of the Pierrefitte estate. In 1775 it was bought by the seneschal Guillaume Joseph Legraverend, grandfather of Hippolyte Legraverend, a popular deputy for Ille-et-Vilaine. At his death the property was left to the Rennes hospital, and the manor housed a hospice until 1989. Since 2009 it has been a renovated serviced residence. Bruz, the second town of the Rennes area, lies along the Vilaine and the Seiche rivers and is home to the Ker Lann campus.
Getting there
The address is Manoir de la Pommeraie, 35170 Bruz. The venue is about 15 minutes from central Rennes, and Rennes is about 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris. Saint-Malo, Dinard and Mont-Saint-Michel are about one hour away. A private car park is available on site.
