The group lodge at Moulin Neuf suits a board meeting, a small residential seminar, an association training weekend or a family reunion, with a 50 m² room for up to 49 people and 30 beds under the same roof. The Village de Gîtes du Moulin Neuf stands at 10 rue de la Libauderie in Gétigné, in Loire-Atlantique, on the edge of Clisson.
Seminars and company events
The site sells seminars and lends its main room for meetings, which the venue presents as suited to a board of directors. A video projector, a screen and a flipchart are lent on request, and Wi-Fi is free across the site. The format is simple: the group rents the lodge as a whole and runs it in self-catering, so the agenda, meal times and breaks are set by the organizer.
The village pairs work sessions with team activities. A canoe base sits five minutes away, and the riverside lawns open to all residents can host outdoor workshops. The lodge also hosts groups of employees on business travel, according to the association.
Rooms and capacities
The ground-floor room covers 50 m² and is rated for 49 people. It comes with about fifty stackable chairs and ten rectangular folding tables, eight of them 1.60 m by 0.80 m and two of 1.20 m by 0.80 m, which allows a boardroom, a U-shape or a banquet layout. The room opens onto a private garden with a barbecue and wooden picnic tables.
Evening parties are allowed in this lodge. The sockets in the room cut off automatically at 2 a.m.
Accommodation
The group lodge holds 30 beds over two floors, with a safety limit of 15 people per floor, children included. The first floor has a lounge and bedrooms of two, five and six single beds, each with a washbasin, plus three showers and two toilets. The second floor has five bedrooms of two to four single beds, a kitchen for about ten people, a washing machine, three showers and three toilets. Bed linen and towels are included.
Larger groups can add beds in the other gîtes on the same site: a house for 8 to 10, cottages for 4 to 6 and for 5, and apartments for 2 to 4.
Catering
There is no restaurant on site. The ground-floor room has a professional kitchen with a five-burner gas range, an electric oven, a commercial dishwasher, fridges, a freezer and a coffee urn, plus tableware for about fifty guests. Groups cook for themselves or bring in a caterer of their choice.
History and setting
Moulin Neuf is a former weavers' village on the Sèvre Nantaise. It is run by Les Amis du Moulin Neuf, a nonprofit association founded in 1965 that works in social and solidarity tourism and belongs to the UNAT network. The site lies on the Sèvre et Maine hiking loop, close to the Vélidéale cycle route, among the Muscadet vineyards. Puy du Fou, Nantes and the Anjou troglodyte sites are within driving range.
Getting there
By road, the village is about 30 km south of Nantes on the Nantes to Cholet road, exit Vallet or Clisson. Clisson station, served by TER and tram-train from Nantes, is 3 km away. Nantes Atlantique airport is about 30 km away. A free private car park sits near the reception, and the lodge is reached on foot by a path below the village.
