myCowork rents the Merri space for private events in central Paris, for seminars and receptions of up to 50 guests. Merri is a 100 m² glazed room at myCowork Beaubourg, 5 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri in the 4th arrondissement, a few minutes on foot from Châtelet-Les Halles. The operator also runs a second coworking house at 54 rue Greneta in the 2nd arrondissement, in the Montorgueil area, and the same team handles bookings for both addresses.
Seminars and company events
Merri is hired privately, so the group is alone in the space from morning to evening. The official site lists seminars, kick-offs, team meetings, training sessions, workshops, conferences, round tables, press events, product launches, pop-up stores, company evenings, afterworks, filming and team building. The room has a dedicated fiber connection, a video projector and a paper board, with coffee and tea included. It also has a private street entrance and a terrace for breaks.
Slots are sold by the half-day (9 am to 1 pm or 2 pm to 6 pm), by the full day (9 am to 6 pm, with the last hour kept for tidying and cleaning) or for an evening (7 pm to 10 pm, with extra hours possible). Bookings of several days run from 9 am to 7 pm. The cancellation notice is two weeks.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings are not mentioned on the official site. Cocktail receptions and company evenings are, and Merri holds up to 50 guests standing.
Rooms and capacities
Merri can be arranged to suit the format. The site states the capacities the room actually holds rather than theoretical maximums: 50 guests for a standing cocktail, 35 in cabaret layout, 35 in theater layout, 25 around one long table and 20 in classroom layout. For an event above 40 guests the site recommends the standing format.
For a plenary followed by workshops, Merri can be combined with three meeting rooms in the basement of myCowork Beaubourg. Dali seats up to 7 and Niki up to 12, and Stravinski takes between 14 and 20 people. Meeting rooms are hired by the hour or the day and include a screen with HDMI, professional Wi-Fi and a paper board. Video conferencing is available on request at no charge. Other rooms listed on the meeting room page, such as Federici, Banksi and Georges, hold 2 to 10 people.
Accommodation
There are no bedrooms on site. Hotels are available in the Marais, Les Halles and Beaubourg districts, all within walking distance.
Catering
Coffee and tea are included. A food and caterer option is available on quotation, according to the meeting room page. Organizers should ask the team how outside caterers are handled in Merri.
History and setting
myCowork is a coworking operator with two houses in central Paris, and Merri is its dedicated event space. The room faces place Stravinsky, beside the Saint-Merri church and the Centre Pompidou, in a pedestrian part of the Marais and Beaubourg. The glazed front lets daylight in all day. The operator rates the space 4.6 out of 5 on Google, according to its own site.
Getting there
The site states that both houses are five minutes on foot from Châtelet-Les Halles, which is served by RER lines A, B and D and by six metro lines. Every Paris train station can be reached directly from there. Hotel de Ville and Rambuteau stations are also nearby.
