The Domaine du Gouverneur hosts study days, residential seminars, board meetings, team building and weddings for up to 150 people, with eight meeting rooms from 8 to 150 seats, 53 bedrooms and a 45-hole golf course. The four-star estate stands at the lieu-dit Le Breuil in Monthieux, in the Dombes, the region of a thousand ponds, 30 minutes from Lyon.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells study days and residential seminars, with a dedicated sales team. The study day includes a welcome coffee, the equipped room, a morning break, a three-course lunch with drinks and an afternoon break. The residential formula adds dinner, a night in the four-star hotel and a buffet breakfast. Rooms come with new-generation touch screens, a projector, notepads, pens and flipcharts, with coffee, hot drinks and filtered water.
For breaks and team building, the grounds offer pétanque, Mölkky, table tennis, padel, tennis, a pool and a nature trail. Partner providers run a 2CV escape tour, events by Diverty Events and wine activities by Vinextenso. The golf course can also be part of the program.
Weddings and receptions
The estate hosts weddings in a dedicated room of human scale, with exposed beams, old parquet and bohemian-style furniture, used for the evening reception. A sales attaché follows each couple, and a wedding brochure is available. The estate also organizes other private celebrations.
Rooms and capacities
The Tour Bourbon holds three rooms. Gleneagles covers 29 square meters and takes 12 around a table. Saint Andrews covers 150 square meters, divides into 90 and 60, and takes up to 130 people, with a touch screen. Pebble Beach covers 35 square meters for 14.
The Château du Breuil holds four rooms. The Grand Salon covers 85 square meters and takes up to 70. Augusta covers 63 square meters and takes up to 50, in a part of the château dating from the 14th century. The Bibliothèque, 25 square meters, takes 10, and La Cave, also 25 square meters, takes 8.
In the Pavillon, Les Etangs covers 150 square meters with high ceilings and exposed beams and takes up to 150 people, the largest capacity on the estate.
Accommodation
The hotel has 53 rooms and suites, many with views over the golf course. Categories include classic and superior rooms, deluxe, family and junior suites, and a lodge.
Catering
La Table du Gouverneur, the estate restaurant, serves bistronomic cooking with regional flavors and touches from elsewhere. It holds the Table Remarquable title from the Teritoria network, which the estate joined in 2021. Seminar meals are prepared on site.
History and setting
The estate was built around the Château du Breuil, former residence of the Governor of the Dombes, whose château and outbuildings date from the Middle Ages and were restored when the golf estate was created in 1992. Jacques Dalloz, already head of the Golf de la Bresse, acquired it in 1998. The hotel gained its fourth star in 2015, and his granddaughter Laure Dalloz has run the estate since 2019. The golf course, described as the largest in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, has 45 holes on three courses: Le Breuil, Montaplan and La Soche.
Getting there
The estate is at the lieu-dit Le Breuil, 01390 Monthieux, in the Ain department, about 30 minutes from Lyon by road.
