Domaine Les Étangs de la Bassée hosts seminars, team-building days, weddings and private receptions, with up to 110 guests seated indoors and up to 150 for a cocktail or buffet with a specific layout. The estate is at Gravon, in the south-east of Seine-et-Marne, about 80 km from Paris, and covers 34 hectares of parkland around nine ponds.
Seminars and company events
The estate sells residential and day seminars with its own work rooms, lodging and activities in one place. Two work rooms with a view of the water can take up to 110 people, and folding screens make it possible to set up breakout areas. Groups can stay over in 34 bedrooms spread around the park, for up to 69 people, and 21 unusual units (bubbles, cabins and domes) add further beds for a stay outside the usual hotel format.
Team-building options listed by the estate include a Robinson challenge, a fort-style challenge, mixology, kayak, rowing boat and paddle, rosalie bikes, eco-responsible workshops, a herbal workshop and coarse fishing. The estate presents some of them around CSR themes. A brochure for companies can be downloaded from the official site.
Weddings and receptions
The estate can be hired in full or in part for a wedding of up to 150 guests. Both reception halls face the ponds and can be rearranged. The Balinese beach area, opposite Villa Carpe Diem, is used for photographs, a civil-style ceremony or a cocktail. Birthdays, family reunions and bachelor parties are also hosted, with up to 120 guests across the reception spaces.
Rooms and capacities
Villa Carpe Diem is the main reception building. The wedding page lists 400 square meters of reception space, with up to 110 guests seated indoors and 150 for a cocktail or standing buffet, a dance area, a central fireplace, a bar area and a 150-square-meter terrace on stilts above the lagoon pond. The seminar page gives 200 square meters of reception rooms for the same building.
The Club House offers 70 square meters indoors and a 60-square-meter terrace under a wooden awning, with exposed beams, an equipped kitchen and a panoramic view of two ponds. It seats up to 50 people inside and up to 90 when the terrace is used.
The Balinese area is a white sand beach of more than 200 square meters with a bamboo bar, a sheltered paillote and two gazebos for about 15 people each. It suits dinners, evening parties and outdoor talks.
Accommodation
The estate lists about 40 units in total. Villa Carpe Diem has six bedrooms with private shower rooms for 12 guests. The other options are eco-lodges with two or three bedrooms for up to eight people, villas for up to 14, a cottage, starlit bubbles on stilts for two, domes of 37 square meters and cabins set 4 meters up or on the water. The estate states that more than 100 guests can sleep on site for a wedding.
Catering
For company events, the estate offers buffets, meal trays, barbecues, cooking demonstrations, gala dinners and brunches, built to order. For weddings, catering is an option. Resident guests can also order breakfast baskets and buy ready-to-heat meals, snacks and drinks at reception.
History and setting
The estate opened in 2019, created by an owner with a keen interest in nature and fishing. It sits within a Natura 2000 area, and La Bassée nature reserve lies about 20 km away. The Bray canal runs along the property and gives walking and cycling paths. On site there are boats for residents, a swimming area that is not supervised, a wellness area and two electric charging points.
Getting there
The address is 6 Le Chemin de la Tombe, 77118 Gravon. The estate is about one hour by road from Paris.
