Éco-Domaine La Fontaine can host residential seminars of one or several days, team-building workshops and weekend weddings. The largest room is a 190 m² hall that seats about 100 guests at dinner, or up to 120 with the caterer's approval, and a standing cocktail outdoors is advised for up to 150. The estate has 61 bedrooms on site. It covers 12 hectares on rue des Noëlles in Pornic, on the Loire-Atlantique coast, about 100 meters from the beach.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells seminars with a dedicated events team that arranges site visits, quotes and on-site support. Work spaces combine three modular meeting rooms and four smaller lounges, all with daylight and fiber wifi. Each meeting room comes with a facilitation kit, flip charts and a projector or screen.
The estate runs its own program of activities built around its farm and gardens: 90-minute discovery workshops, three-hour team-building sessions on cohesion, and full themed days. Topics include permaculture, the vines, the animals of the teaching farm, the vegetable garden and well-being. Breaks and outdoor sessions can take place across the grounds. The venue holds a FairScore Événementiel rating of A and the Clef Verte environmental label, which matters to companies that report on the footprint of their events.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings and private parties are sold as a weekend from Friday evening to Sunday evening. The package centers on the 190 m² reception hall, a house next to it that sleeps 20 people for two nights, a 150 m² cocktail tent set up from April to October, and an open-air amphitheater among the gardens. Ceremonies, games and photo sessions can be held in the vegetable garden or in the vines overlooking the ocean. Guests book their own bedrooms with a group discount, so the couple does not pay for them in advance. The hall comes with 14 round tables, a head table, 120 chairs, a lounge corner and a wooden bar.
Rooms and capacities
The three meeting rooms, Adventice (63 m²), Bouture (65 m²) and Grelinette (65 m²), can be joined into rooms of 130 m² and 65 m², or one room of about 190 m². Bouture and Grelinette each take 40 in theatre style, 32 in cabaret and 26 in classroom layout. Adventice takes 25 in theatre style. The four lounges, Semis, Paillis, Pressoir and Chai, seat between 6 and 12 people for informal work. One of the two restaurant dining rooms, Mer Nature, can be reserved for a group of 30 to 60.
Accommodation
The 61 bedrooms are split between a 4-star eco-designed hotel with 42 rooms and a 3-star residence with 19 apartments and studios, some with kitchenettes. Twin and triple rooms are available, and the estate can sleep up to 85 people in single beds. Several hotel rooms are adapted for reduced mobility and served by a lift. A 300 m² spa is on site.
Catering
For seminars, the in-house restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, breaks and dinner, with seasonal menus built around 3,500 m² of permaculture vegetable gardens. Menus are set day by day, so dietary needs should be sent ahead. A privatized dining room can stay open until 1 a.m., with karaoke equipment. For weddings, couples choose their own caterer, with a recommended list, and no corkage fee applies.
History and setting
The estate grew from a century-old farm built by a community of seminarians. It later housed convalescing war wounded, then a children's holiday center, before becoming a hotel, restaurant and farm. The grounds include vines trained on stakes, an orchard, a teaching farm and the gardens.
Getting there
The estate sits on the coast near the Fontaine aux Bretons beach in Pornic, southwest of Nantes. Parking is about 200 meters from the main entrance and has three charging points for electric cars.
