Le Montebello is a wood-paneled barge moored at Port Debilly in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, hired privately for receptions and company events. It seats 60 guests for a dinner and receives 100 for a cocktail. The operator is Paris Seine, which lists the boat among its privatizable vessels, and the Google Maps listing shows it under the name Happy Boat.
Seminars and company events
Paris Seine offers business formats on its boats and on its quay-side pontoon: company dinners and evenings, lunches and seminars. The seminar offer described on the site runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and includes a welcome breakfast, a cocktail lunch or seated meal, a coffee break, and conference equipment with a video projector, screen and microphone. A seminar can take place at the quay or during a cruise of about an hour and a half. Those offers are presented for the fleet, so confirm with the team which items apply to Le Montebello.
An evening for a company runs from 8 p.m. to midnight in the cruise offer, with an aperitif and a dinner or cocktail dinner. Lunches run from noon to 4 p.m.
Weddings and receptions
The boat is presented for receptions, with a layout that can change between a dinner in the main lounge and a cocktail on the terrace. Paris Seine also promotes wedding evenings aboard its boats, with a cruise of about three hours, a DJ and an open bar, from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Those wedding terms apply to the cruise offer of the fleet.
Rooms and capacities
The reception lounge is paneled in mahogany and wood throughout. Along the full length of the boat runs a landscaped panoramic terrace of 100 square meters, facing the Eiffel Tower. The sun deck is described as suited to aperitifs. The lounge and terrace can be rearranged to match the event: the official page shows a dinner layout in the main lounge and a separate terrace layout.
Capacity is 60 seated for dinner and 100 for a cocktail.
Catering
Paris Seine works with the caterer Butard Enescot for its food. Menu choices are planned in advance, as is usual with a caterer, and a guest review on the site says the same.
Getting there
Le Montebello is moored at 2 Port Debilly, 75016 Paris, on the Seine and facing the Eiffel Tower. The Paris Seine website provides a map of the boarding point and a virtual visit of the boat.
