The Château de Villers-Bocage is rented as a whole for residential seminars, team building, weddings, birthdays and family gatherings. Up to 40 guests stay in 16 suites, and four rooms in the château serve as plenary hall, breakout rooms and screening room. The estate lies in Villers-Bocage, in Calvados, 20 minutes from Caen, with 32 hectares of park and gardens.
Seminars and company events
The château takes day events and stays of two days or more, with residential seminars offered in September and October and in January and February. The Salon XVIIIe is the plenary room and can be set in theater style, in a U, in a half circle or around a conference table. The Salon Chinois hosts sub-committees, with islands for up to four teams working at the same time. The Salle Baron de Grandclos has a large central table and direct access to the garden, with an outdoor table for working in good weather. The Salle Cinéma has tiered seating for pitches, debriefs and games.
For team building, the estate has a golf practice of more than 220 meters with a putting green, a fitness trail around the ponds past waterfalls and springs, and a multisport field with football goals and a tennis court. Cocktails and dinners can be arranged on request.
Weddings and receptions
The château is rented for weddings over several days, with up to 40 guests housed on site. A dedicated space allows dancing with a DJ or live band. On request, the team arranges floral decoration and a wedding arch, a vintage car or limousine, guest transfers, photographers, and reception equipment for a secular ceremony: chairs, tables, linen, candelabra, tableware, glassware and sound systems. For parties held mostly outdoors, capacity is larger than the number of beds.
Rooms and capacities
Four rooms are offered for meetings: the Salon XVIIIe, the Salon Chinois, the Salle Baron de Grandclos and the Salle Cinéma. Their seated capacities are not published. The château has more than 4,000 square meters of buildings, including 2,000 square meters for the main house, an orangery, a gentilhommière and an 18th-century folly. A lift serves the château.
Accommodation
The 16 suites each have a bathroom in marble or natural stone and king- or queen-size beds that can be separated into twins. The château sleeps up to 40 guests, and the whole property is reserved for one group during the stay. On site there is a spa area, an outdoor pool and a screening room.
Catering
The château works with trusted suppliers for catering, entertainment, logistics and equipment, available on request, and guests may also bring their own caterer. Breakfast is homemade, with local produce, the château's honey and jams from its orchard, Normandy cream and apple tarts.
History and setting
The château dates from the 17th and 18th centuries and was the official residence of the Clermont-Tonnerre family. Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and brother of Marie-Antoinette, spent the night of June 2, 1777 here; guests can see the room where he slept. On February 9, 1792, the Saint-Malo shipowner Pierre Jacques Meslé de Grandclos bought the château with 12 farms, 90 hectares of woods and 320 hectares of meadows.
Getting there
The château is about 20 minutes from Caen and 250 kilometers from Paris, about 2 hours 30 minutes by road.
