Kaløvig Center is a small residential meeting center on the sea at Følle Strand, north of Aarhus, in the Rønde area of Denmark. It offers four meeting rooms for up to 80 people, 26 bedrooms and a garden running down to the water. Businesses and associations use it for day meetings, overnight courses and negotiations. Private groups hire it for weddings, anniversaries and family parties, with up to 80 seated guests inside and 135 with a tent in the courtyard.
Seminars and company events
The center runs several ready formats: a day meeting, a 24-hour stay, a two-day stay and a "12 plus 12" format from lunch to lunch. All four meeting rooms are bright and open directly outdoors. Each has a whiteboard, a flipchart and a projector, and the team lends a Mac on request. Free wireless internet runs over fiber throughout the house. The owner is a negotiation adviser, and the center has built a reputation for negotiations and training in conflict handling, which draws companies, unions and NGOs.
Weddings and receptions
The house was built as a seaside hotel in 1908 and has hosted parties for over a century. Weddings, silver and golden anniversaries, christenings, confirmations, staff parties and family reunions are all listed. There are two ways to book. You can hire the whole property without staff from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, bring your own cook and your own drinks. Or the kitchen can run the whole party, with food and drink, for part of the year.
Rooms and capacities
Udsigten is the largest meeting room, 11 by 6 meters, with windows to the east, south and west and doors to the garden. It seats 80 in cinema layout, 50 in groups and 30 in horseshoe. Bestyrerboligen, the former manager's house, takes 38 in cinema layout. Dagligstuen on the first floor has a sea view and its own roof terrace for 25 in cinema layout. The treetop house is a small meeting room for up to 10. A lounge called Slyngelstuen is available for group work.
Accommodation
The house has 26 bedrooms, 22 of them with a sea view, and 35 fixed beds. Counting the treetop house, there are 48 beds, and extra guest beds bring the total to 76 when needed. For larger groups, the center rents additional rooms from colleagues nearby. Rooms have goose-down duvets, a desk with a lamp and a wireless phone charger, and some have a small kitchenette.
Catering
Main meals are served as buffets, with plenty of vegetables, homemade bread and homemade cakes. The kitchen sits at the center of the house. The center works to limit food waste and serves tap water. The 24-hour package includes a lunch buffet, a two-course dinner, breakfast and coffee breaks.
History and setting
The building opened as Bad Kaløvig in 1908, later served as a rest home and has been run by the current owner since 2005. The garden has a fire pit, a football pitch, an apple grove, a beach and woodland. The treetop house, built in 2011, now stands on four-meter posts after a storm in 2015 felled its tree. The center runs on geothermal heat, solar heat and solar panels.
Getting there
By car the center is about 30 minutes from Aarhus city center, and about the same from Ebeltoft and Randers. Enter the full address, Præstekravevej 46, 8410 Rønde, in your GPS. Two type 2 electric car chargers are on site.
