The Domaine du Gîte de la Cour hosts weddings, company seminars, team days, family gatherings and private parties, with a reception hall for up to 110 guests and a covered outdoor hall for up to 150. The estate is hired exclusively and sleeps about 60 people. It lies at 5 route du Vingt-Bec in Campandré-Valcongrain, part of Les Monts d'Aunay in Calvados, on the edge of the Suisse Normande and about 20 minutes from Caen.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells seminars, strategy meetings, team-building days and client evenings. The seminar page describes a bright room of 150 square meters for work sessions, brainstorming or a talk, alongside informal spaces for workshops and grounds for outdoor activities. Direct access to the forest makes room for walks, orienteering, mountain biking and team exercises in the wooded park.
For a residential seminar, teams sleep on site, which removes transfers between hotel and venue. The team coordinates coffee breaks and lunches with local caterers and adapts the schedule to the program.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are the main use of the estate. A secular ceremony can take place outdoors under the trees, the cocktail in the garden and the dinner and dance in the reception hall, which takes up to 110 guests. Couples choose their providers freely, from the estate's partners or their own. The hall is rented from Friday at 10 a.m. to Sunday at 6 p.m., so a wedding can run over a full weekend with a brunch on the second day. Anniversaries, christenings, family reunions and bachelor parties are also hosted.
Rooms and capacities
The reception hall seats up to 110 and comes with wooden chairs, rectangular tables and outdoor garden furniture at no extra charge. La Halle, a large open-sided hall built in the garden, takes up to 150 for a cocktail, an aperitif or a ceremony. The large gîte has a 70-square-meter dining room with an open kitchen and a fireplace, seating up to 35, which suits a children's meal or a smaller dinner. The estate covers about 4 hectares of meadows and wooded parkland.
Accommodation
The estate sleeps about 60 people across several buildings. Five guest rooms, named Hirondelle, Pinson, Mésange, Alouette and Colombe, take two to five people each. The large gîte has 19 beds in three bedrooms, one of them accessible to guests with reduced mobility, each with its own shower room. Three wooden chalets take six to eight people each, and a straw cabin offers an unusual night. Bed linen, towels and cleaning are included in the gîte rental.
Catering
There is no imposed caterer. For events, the estate works with local caterers or with the client's own. For guests staying over, homemade breakfasts are served and a homemade dinner with wine can be booked in advance.
History and setting
The estate was taken over recently by new owners who continue to run it for couples, families and companies. It sits in the bocage of the Suisse Normande, among meadows, hedgerows and forest.
Getting there
Caen is about 20 to 30 minutes away by car. The Roche d'Oëtre and the Rouvre gorges are nearby for walks, Caen's castle and museums are about 40 minutes away, and the D-Day beaches and Bayeux are about one hour away. A car or a coach is needed to reach the estate.
