Domaine du Thiémay can host seminars, general meetings, product presentations, client evenings and weddings for up to 150 guests, with 100 to 110 seated at round tables in its main hall. The estate covers 15 hectares of woods, meadows and ponds at Fay-de-Bretagne, in Loire-Atlantique, about 30 minutes northwest of central Nantes and 2 km from the Nantes to Saint-Nazaire road.
Seminars and company events
Companies are welcome all year, mainly from Monday to Thursday evening, with some Fridays and weekends available. A typical day combines a meeting, a product presentation or a general assembly in the morning, then lunch and outdoor activities in the park in the afternoon. The estate also hosts client cocktails, team building and residential seminars, with part of the group sleeping in the three gîtes on site.
The main hall is equipped with a video projector, a 4 by 3 m screen, a sound system and two microphones. Seven other spaces take 10 to 30 people each and serve as breakout rooms, including the 95 m² hunting room. A shaded car park holds about 60 cars, and in summer the meadow can take more than 200 extra vehicles, which helps for a large convention.
Weddings and receptions
For weddings, the estate is booked exclusively from Friday to Sunday. Guests arrive by a long tree-lined drive, the drinks reception takes place on the meadow, and the ceremony can be held in the park or in the old hunting room. Dinner and dancing follow in the hall, which seats up to 130 for a meal. A 24 m² nursery next to the hall, with cots and a changing table, lets babysitters look after young children during the evening. In winter, the fireplace is lit. Family celebrations and reunions are also welcome.
Rooms and capacities
The stone reception hall measures about 21 by 7 m, or 150 m². It takes up to 150 people for a large indoor event, 140 seated in rows without tables for a plenary presentation, 100 to 120 at round tables for a meeting or a meal, and 130 seated for a wedding dinner. For 50 to 60 people, it can be split into a meeting area and a dining or dancing area. The hunting room covers 95 m² and doubles as a wet-weather option. A west-facing terrace of about 120 m² catches the evening sun. Furniture includes 16 round tables for eight, a head table for 12 to 14 and 140 chairs.
Accommodation
Three gîtes next to the hall sleep up to 32 people in total. The Tower gîte takes up to 14, the Middle gîte up to 6 and the Keeper's gîte up to 8, and the Keeper's room adds four more beds. For weddings, a bedroom in the manor is reserved for the couple.
Catering
The estate does not impose a caterer. Clients are free to choose their own caterer, musicians and other suppliers, and the owners can recommend trusted partners. There is no corkage fee. The hall has a caterer's area with a cold room, an oven, a warming cabinet and an induction hob.
History and setting
The manor was built around 1850 by Jean de la Motte, a former prefect and member of parliament, and his wife Octavia Say, heir to the Say family of Nantes sugar planters and refiners. She later added the Thiémay tower, built around 1880, which stands over the north of the estate. The reception hall was created in 1992 in the old farm buildings. The park holds a large pond, a newt pool, cedars, oaks and two sequoias about two hundred years old.
Getting there
The estate is about 15 minutes from Nantes and 25 minutes from Saint-Nazaire by road. The address is 2 le Thiémay, 44130 Fay-de-Bretagne. Nantes station and Nantes Atlantique airport are the nearest rail and air links.
