Hôtel Périer du Bignon hosts residential seminars, congresses, work meetings, incentives, company dinners and weddings for 8 to 250 guests. Its largest room, the Salle des Congrès, takes up to 250 people, and 36 bedrooms and suites let a group stay on site. The hotel occupies an 18th-century townhouse on rue du Marchis, in the historic center of Laval, in the Mayenne department of western France.
Seminars and company events
The hotel is set up for day meetings and residential seminars: a team can work in one of the four rooms, eat in the restaurant, use the spa in the evening and sleep on site. The Salle des Congrès suits a plenary session, a congress or a launch, with its own entrance from the courtyard, a private terrace, a bar, a cloakroom and its own restrooms. La Chapelle and La Salle Blanche serve as breakout rooms or for a committee of 15 to 30. The top-floor Lounge offers a quieter room for a small business meeting. Reception is open around the clock, with staff speaking French, English and German, and the building is accessible to guests with reduced mobility. Underground parking is secured.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, birthdays, baptisms, communions and family gatherings are hosted too, with seated meals for up to 160 guests. The Salle des Congrès, with its terrace and private kitchen, handles the dinner, while the Lounge can be privatized for smaller receptions such as a bachelor or bachelorette party of 20 or more. Guests can stay in the hotel the same night.
Rooms and capacities
The Salle des Congrès covers about 227 m² and holds up to 250 people. It comes with Wi-Fi, a fixed screen, a projector, two wireless microphones, a sound system, a stage, a lectern and a flip chart. La Chapelle, a former chapel of 63 m² with colored stained-glass windows, takes up to 30 and opens directly from reception. La Salle Blanche, about 20 m² with a glass door onto the garden, takes 15. Le Lounge, on the top floor and served by an elevator, has two rooms, one for small meetings and one of about 20 m² with a seating area.
Accommodation
The hotel counts 36 bedrooms and suites. Since 2022 the adjoining Petit Périer, a three-star hotel with 38 rooms, a seminar room and a winter garden, adds capacity for larger groups.
Catering
Catering is in house, from two restaurants: L'Epicurien for gastronomic cuisine and Le Patio, a brasserie. Menus range from brasserie dishes to set menus and full gastronomic dinners, and room service is available.
History and setting
Pierre Périer du Bignon, a linen merchant who became the richest trader in Laval, built the house in 1777, with the family living in the west wing and shops and workshops in the east wing. He was guillotined in Angers in 1793. A religious society later ran a girls' school and hospice here and added the chapel around 1900, and during World War I the building served as a volunteer hospital of about 30 beds. The city bought it in 1998, and it reopened as a hotel with a restaurant in 2012. It has been a listed historic monument since 2001, and its original fireplaces, woodwork and ironwork remain.
Getting there
Laval station is on the high-speed line from Paris Montparnasse, a little over an hour away, and Rennes is about 30 minutes further west. The city center is a five-minute walk from the hotel.
