Residential seminars, team-building days and private events for up to 60 people, with the site privatized in full or in part: Slow Village Marennes Oléron is a cottage village at Marennes-Plages, in the commune of Marennes-Hiers-Brouage, at the foot of the bridge to the Île d'Oléron, on the Charente-Maritime coast of western France.
Seminars and company events
The Slow Village group presents Marennes Oléron as one of its destinations for seminars, with a stated capacity of up to 60 participants. A team can take over the whole village or only part of it, depending on the size of the group and the season. Across the group, meeting rooms come equipped with Wi-Fi, flipcharts and a projector and can be set up for plenary sessions, workshops or smaller working groups. The setting gives a program its outdoor half: direct access to the beach of Marennes, a large terrace, the pool, and cycling along the coast and the salt marshes. Menus are built for each group. Requests go to the group's events team, which handles all its destinations.
Rooms and capacities
The site is sized for seminars of up to 60 people. Shared spaces include the Casa Oma restaurant next to the pool, the bar, a large terrace, and a guinguette on the beach. The site does not publish the name, surface or layouts of the meeting room at Marennes Oléron, so those details come with the proposal.
Accommodation
Guests sleep in cottages for 2 to 8 people with one to three bathrooms. The Signature range includes the Tribu cottage of 62 square meters with four bedrooms, including an independent studio, for up to eight, and cottages with three or two bedrooms for six or four. The Premium range offers three-bedroom, two-bedroom and one-bedroom cottages from 18 to 40 square meters. Shared cottages keep a seminar group together while giving each participant a room.
Catering
Casa Oma, the poolside restaurant, serves lunch and dinner daily in high season, with shorter hours in the low season. The bar opens from the morning, and the beach guinguette serves from noon in summer and on weekends in the low season, depending on the weather. For groups, the events team puts together custom menus, from working lunches to a closing dinner.
History and setting
The village lies between the salt marshes of the Marennes basin and a preserved stretch of coast, opposite the Île d'Oléron. The area is known for oyster farming, and the marshes and cycle paths around the site lend themselves to outdoor sessions and team activities. The heated pool, with a large basin and a paddling pool, is open daily in season until the end of September.
Getting there
The address is 9 avenue Pierre Voyer, 17320 Marennes-Plages. La Rochelle station is about 50 minutes by car and Rochefort station is closer. Royan is 35 minutes away, and Bordeaux about 1 hour 50 minutes by road. La Rochelle-Île de Ré airport is the nearest airport. A coach transfer from La Rochelle or Rochefort suits a group arriving by train.
