Le Logis de l'Hostellerie de l'Abbaye is a private-hire house for weddings, birthdays, family weekends and company seminars, with 17 bedrooms sleeping up to 49 people. It is run by the Hostellerie de l'Abbaye, a hotel and restaurant in the same small town, which also hosts seminars for groups of 2 to 180. The Logis stands at 56 rue Emile Verdon in Celles-sur-Belle, in the Deux-Sèvres, a five-minute walk from the town center.
Seminars and company events
The Hostellerie sells seminars at the Logis or at the hotel. The hotel has two fully equipped meeting rooms, for 24 and for 12 to 15 people, and the Logis has its own meeting space with a video projector, flipchart and wifi. For larger groups, the team can book rooms belonging to the town or inside the Abbaye Royale, at extra cost.
Three day formulas are offered. The standard seminar includes a welcome coffee, an equipped room with screen, projector, flipchart, notepads and water, a three-course brasserie lunch and breaks. The bistronomic seminar, aimed at management meetings, upgrades the lunch and the breaks. The residential seminar adds a bistronomic dinner and afternoon or evening activities, with themes such as food, sport, culture or games. Each equipped room has free wifi.
Weddings and receptions
The Logis is offered for weddings, birthdays and weekends with family or friends. Two formulas exist: a weekend private hire, and a self-managed hire for a weekend or a full week, where the group uses the professional kitchen. Quotes are given on request.
Rooms and capacities
The ground floor groups the reception spaces: lounges with a fireplace, a dining room with a fireplace, and a large hall with a veranda forming an L shape. All these spaces are modular. The games room has a table football, a television, wifi and presentation equipment. Outside, there is a terrace, garden furniture, a plancha, an outdoor bar, a front courtyard and 2,000 m² of enclosed grounds behind the house, reached through a coded gate. Seated and standing capacities are not published.
Accommodation
The Logis sleeps up to 49 people in 16 double beds and 10 single beds, with cots available. The ground floor has one accessible double room. The first and second floors each have eight double rooms, all with private bathrooms. Pets are not admitted. The Hostellerie itself, in the town center, adds 18 rooms and 4 apartments, which brings the two buildings to 37 rooms for seminar groups.
Catering
The kitchen at the Logis is equipped with two cold rooms, an oven, a gas range, tables, chairs and bars, so a caterer or the group can cook on site. The Hostellerie restaurant serves brasserie and bistro cooking with fresh products from short supply chains and fish from the La Rochelle auction. In summer it runs brazier and plancha evenings on its terrace.
History and setting
The Logis was built at the end of the 16th or the start of the 17th century and has been renovated as the second building of the Hostellerie. Celles-sur-Belle is a small town listed as a Petite Cité de Caractère, known for its 17th-century royal abbey. The Hostellerie belongs to the Logis Hotels network.
Getting there
Celles-sur-Belle is 20 minutes from Niort and 10 minutes from the A10 Paris to Bordeaux and A83 Nantes to Bordeaux motorways. The Hostellerie has free, closed private parking at 1 place des Époux Laurant.
