Domaine de Sandricourt can host a board meeting, a residential seminar or a weekend wedding, with the whole château booked for one group and up to 25 guests sleeping on site. The estate stands in the French Vexin, at Amblainville in the Oise, less than 50 kilometers from Paris.
Seminars and company events
The château sells seminars and executive committee retreats on an exclusive-hire basis. Your team has the house, the park and the staff to itself for the length of the stay. Work sessions take place in the Bureau de Monsieur, a 43 m² ground-floor salon that can be rearranged to suit the meeting. It is full of daylight and looks out over the Allée de la Marquise.
Next to it, a smaller office with a printer gives participants a quiet place for a phone call. The library, 106 m² and fitted with a projection screen, can serve as a breakout room. The meeting kit includes a U-shaped table, a Speechy digital board, a flipchart, a television, a computer, a conference speaker and Wi-Fi.
Between sessions, the estate can arrange a cooking workshop with the chef, a perfume-making workshop, clay pigeon shooting, a cocktail session with a barman or a yoga class. A sales manager builds the program with you.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are sold as a Saturday-to-Sunday exclusive hire. The ceremony, civil-style or religious, can take place in the park or in the private chapel. The cocktail, dinner and party are held outdoors, in a tent set up in the park, so the number of guests depends on the tent you rent. The package covers the chapel, the nine château bedrooms, the six bedrooms of the adjoining Pavilion, the house staff, the salons for getting ready, the park, Sunday breakfast for resident guests, the leisure facilities and a private car park for 50 vehicles.
The estate recommends partners for tents, music, photography, catering and transport. You may also bring your own suppliers after a site visit. There is no fixed end time, although the sound level must drop late in the evening.
Rooms and capacities
Three indoor rooms are named for working groups: the Bureau de Monsieur (43 m²), the adjoining small office and the library (106 m²). The dining room, with a fireplace, a billiard table and a terrace, serves as the main living space. For weddings, the reception space is the park itself.
Accommodation
The château has nine bedrooms, each with a private bathroom or shower room: double rooms on the first and second floors, a single room, a twin room and a four-person junior suite. Six more bedrooms are in the Pavilion. In total, up to 25 people can stay on site. Guests have use of a heated outdoor pool from May, a sauna, a fitness room, a tennis court and bicycles. A laundry service is available.
Catering
For seminars, meals are included and cooked by the estate's resident chef, who is also the cook of the Goelet family, owners of the property. He buys fresh, seasonal produce from local growers and adapts menus to each guest's diet. For weddings, you choose your own caterer.
History and setting
The land of Sandricourt hosted a tournament in 1493 that drew more than 4,000 people. The medieval fortress disappeared in the 19th century; only the chapel remains. Between 1880 and 1900, the landscape architects Henri and Achille Duchêne designed the Allée de la Marquise, a double lime avenue more than 4 kilometers long, listed as a historic monument in 1991. Robert Walton Goelet bought the property in 1908. The walled park covers 17 hectares, within a farming and forestry estate of 2,200 hectares.
Getting there
The château is about 30 minutes from Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport and 45 minutes from Le Bourget, according to the estate. A private driver can be arranged on request.
