Gîte La Charrette Fleurie takes residential seminars, small conferences, workshops and retreats for groups of 10 to 15 people who sleep on site, and its activity room seats up to 30 for a day session. The group house stands in Le Peyronnet, a small hamlet of traditional stone buildings in Lamastre, in the Doux valley of the northern Ardèche.
Seminars and company events
The house is let on a self-catering basis, so a team has the place to itself and sets its own schedule. Work sessions take place in the multipurpose room, a former gymnasium of 75 m² with a soft floor. It is furnished with conference tables and chairs, flipcharts, a projector and a screen, and seats 30 people. The same room holds a table tennis table, table football, darts and balls, so it can switch from a working day to an evening of games or a karaoke on the big screen.
The site publishes feedback from a company that held its winter seminar here with 11 staff, each in a single bed, using the activity room as its meeting room. Wi-Fi covers the whole house and the garden. The hosts speak French, English and German and help organize the logistics before arrival, from bedding plans to meal deliveries.
Rooms and capacities
The activity room is the main space for meetings: 75 m² and 30 seats. Around it, the house has four living rooms: a lounge with a fireplace, a dining room with two long tables and two sitting areas, a games room and a library with books and comics for all ages. Outside, a stone courtyard has a large stone table, garden furniture, a charcoal barbecue and room for lawn games. The total living area is 280 m².
Accommodation
The house sleeps 15 in 7 bedrooms: 11 single beds and two bunk beds, with cots on request. Several single beds can be pushed together to make doubles. There are 4 showers, one of them in a full bathroom, and 5 toilets, three upstairs and one downstairs plus the bathroom. Beds are made before arrival, with sheets and towels included. A washing machine is available, and a dryer on request. Pets are accepted.
Catering
There is no restaurant on site. Groups cook in a large kitchen equipped for 15, with a big fridge, a freezer, a gas cooker, an electric oven, a dishwasher, several coffee makers and raclette ovens for 16. Meals can also be served outside at the courtyard table. For a seminar without cooking duties, caterers, butchers and pizzerias from the Lamastre area deliver to the house, and the owners keep a list of them. Organic eggs from their hens are sold on site.
History and setting
Sara and Thomas Bubendorf-Suhner moved from Switzerland to the Ardèche in autumn 2021 and run the house, living close by. The buildings belong to a hamlet of old stone houses surrounded by woods and fields. Their vegetable garden is open to guests, and their workshop next door can be used on request. Walking trails start from the house, the Dolce Via cycle route follows the valley and bikes can be hired in Lamastre. A market of local producers is held in town on Tuesday mornings.
Getting there
The address is 935 Le Peyronnet, Lamastre, Ardèche. Lamastre lies on the road between Valence and Le Puy-en-Velay, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The site does not give travel times, so ask the owners about the best route for a group arriving by train.
