Gavnø Slot, on the island of Gavnø near Næstved, hosts day meetings, conferences, team days, weddings and private parties. The main event room is the Slotsbryggeriet, a brewery hall in historic farm buildings that takes up to 300 people in meeting layouts and seats 130 for dinner. Smaller meetings use Café Tulipanen or the holiday house Sophienlyst. The estate is run by the Reedtz-Thott family.
Seminars and company events
The venue offers day and full-day meetings, courses and conferences, and states that it is certified Meetovator. The main meeting room is in the brewery, one of the farm buildings from the 1800s. All table and chair layouts are possible, including cinema style, straight rows, herringbone and U-shape, for up to 300 people. Over 600 square meters of oak cover the floor and the end walls, which carry the family coat of arms, and eight specially made chandeliers hang from the high vaulted ceiling.
Smaller meetings can use Café Tulipanen, which looks over the castle park, or Sophienlyst, a holiday house by the fjord with a smaller meeting room. A kick-off for staff or a team day can be built around activities on the estate: clay pigeon shooting, beer tasting, El-cross and tree-top platform activities. Catering ranges from a shared breakfast to a grill dinner. The team prepares a tailored offer on request.
Weddings and receptions
The Slotsbryggeriet is rented for weddings, confirmations, family parties and company events, from intimate dinners to larger parties. It seats 130 guests for a meal. The venue also has a separate page for weddings and another for hosting a party on Gavnø. Hosts can bring their own chef or use one of the venue's catering partners, among them Karetmagerens Hus, which publishes sample menus. Gavnø beer can be served at the event, and the venue rents out, sets up and takes down tulle and fairy light chains in the hall. Rental terms are published as PDF files on the venue site.
Rooms and capacities
The brewery hall is the only named event space with a stated capacity: up to 300 in meeting layouts and 130 seated for dining. Café Tulipanen and Sophienlyst serve smaller meetings, and Sophienlyst has a smaller meeting room, a large dining room, a kitchen and two lounges with fjord views. Capacities for these smaller rooms are not stated on the pages read.
Accommodation
Gavnø has three holiday houses with 43 beds in total that can be rented for guests. One of them, Sophienlyst, sits on Dybsø Fjord in the estate's private forest, about five minutes by car from the castle. It has four rooms, two with bunk beds and two with double beds, a large dining room, a kitchen and two lounges with fjord views. It has standard AV equipment and wireless internet.
History and setting
The foundation of the castle is more than 600 years old. The Reedtz-Thott family still keeps it today. Gavnø Slot houses the largest private painting collection in Northern Europe, about 1,000 paintings, including Denmark's largest portrait collection, and a castle chapel described as the most colorful in the Nordic countries. The estate has a flower park with thousands of tulips, peonies and roses, a brewery established in 2008, a climbing park and Café Tulipanen.
Getting there
The address is Gavnø 9, 4700 Næstved. Contact the estate by phone or email to plan access for a group.
