The Maison du Handball in Créteil hosts seminars, study days, conferences and team building days for 10 to 1,500 guests. It has an auditorium of 300 seats, ten meeting rooms, two gymnasiums and 72 four-star bedrooms on site. It is the training center of the French handball teams, in the Val-de-Marne, just outside Paris.
Seminars and company events
The venue says it has about twenty private, modular spaces for 10 to 1,000 people, and that a seminar can bring together up to 1,500 guests. The offers are a tailor-made seminar, a study day, a residential seminar, a team building day and a conference. You compose the program yourself or hand it to the team.
Meeting rooms are modular and take 10 to 200 people. The large auditorium seats 300 and can be split in two, or reduced to 150, to fit a group of about a hundred while keeping its technical equipment. For a larger plenary session, a gymnasium can be converted into a conference hall for 800 to 1,000 seated guests.
Team building can be sports based: handball introduction with a former French player, an escape game, an olympiad, a muscle wake-up session, HandFit and handball challenges. Former handball champions, including Thierry Omeyer, Mickaël Guigou, Nina Kanto and Camille Ayglon, give conferences on performance, stress, failure, communication and leadership.
Rooms and capacities
The venue lists: two gymnasiums for up to 1,000 people, a board room of 54 seats, an auditorium of 300 seats, ten meeting rooms for 16 to 200 people and six relaxation areas, two of them private lounges with a bar. It also has 400 square meters of fitness and balneotherapy space and a museum route about handball.
Accommodation
The residential seminar offer relies on 72 four-star rooms, a total of 144 beds. Each room has a work area, a private bathroom, a telephone and Wi-Fi. A concierge service is available day and night. If the beds are not enough, two partner hotels are available. The rooms are decorated around the French teams and their titles.
Catering
The venue has three restaurants. The offer pairs a lunch called Cohésion with a dinner called Excellence, and a made-to-measure offer is possible. Cocktail receptions and award ceremonies can be held in the restaurants or in larger spaces such as the second gymnasium. A guest review on the site praises the quality of the catering.
History and setting
The Maison du Handball is open to companies every day of the year and shares its premises with elite athletes. The contemporary building was designed for comfort and performance, and the venue combines modern spaces with the history of the sport. Open days allow schools, clubs and associations to visit the training center and its museum route.
Getting there
The venue is at 1 rue Daniel Costantini in Créteil, in the inner suburbs of Paris. The venue says it is easy to reach from France and abroad, but gives no station or driving details, so confirm access for your guests when you send a request.
