Why Hire an Exceptional Venue Exclusively for Your Corporate Event Near Lyon ?
There's a real difference between booking a room in a conference hotel and privatising an entire venue for your event. In the first case, you share the space with other groups, work around standardised décor, and your attendees know exactly what to expect before they even walk in. In the second, the entire venue is yours — the atmosphere, the spaces, the rhythm of the day. It's a fundamentally different relationship with the event.
That's why exclusive hire of an exceptional venue near Lyon is attracting a growing number of companies looking to break away from the standard format — whether for a seminar, a year-end party, a product launch, or a team building event.
What Exclusive Hire Actually Changes
Privatisation is, first and foremost, a matter of operational comfort. You don't have to negotiate your slot with another group, adapt your programme to the venue's constraints, or put up with outside noise during your working sessions. The Fort is yours, from the arrival of the first participant to the departure of the last guest.
But what organisers mention most often is something else entirely: the effect it produces on participants the moment they step through the door. An exclusively hired venue sends a clear signal — this event was designed for them, not slotted into an available time window. It changes people's posture. They arrive differently.
A few concrete advantages :
- Complete freedom over the programme. No time constraints imposed by another event. If your morning session runs over, nobody is rushing you.
- Consistency of experience. The welcome, catering, activities, décor — everything can be conceived as a whole, without any break in style or atmosphere between spaces.
- Confidentiality. For a leadership committee, a strategic meeting, or a Multi-team seminar. with sensitive stakes, exclusive hire guarantees that your discussions remain within the Fort.
- Flexibility of installation. Your technical teams, decorators, and caterers can work on site in advance, at their own pace, without sharing the back-of-house with other suppliers.
Why Exceptional Venues Make a Real Difference
You might think the venue doesn't matter much — that what counts is the content. That's not true, and most experienced event organisers will tell you the same: an exceptional venue carries part of the work for you.
A history-rich space, surrounded by nature, with singular architectural volumes, generates an immediate emotional response that you would never have obtained from a generic meeting room. That emotion releases conversation, opens minds, and creates a collective receptiveness that would otherwise take hours to build.
That is what the Groupe Event Management understood in developing its collection of heritage venues across the Lyon region — Fort de Feyzin, Fort de Vaise,IAC and Studio 33. Venues with a strong identity, which are part of the experience as much as the programme itself.
Fort de Feyzin, built between 1875 and 1877 and owned by the Town of Feyzin, is 15 minutes from Lyon city centre via the A7. Its total area of 2 hectares encompasses very different spaces from one another, allowing the atmosphere to shift naturally across the sequences of a day.
What You Can Privatise at Fort de Feyzin
Privatisation can be partial or full, depending on your group size and your objectives.
Partial privatisation :
- The seminar hub (500 m²) — three modular rooms and breakout rooms, for working days of up to 200 guests in cocktail format. Ideal for seminars, training sessions and meetings.
- The Caponnière (600 m² + 200 m² outdoor area) — the festive space par excellence, with its alcoves and ambient lighting. Up to 200 guests in cocktail or seated dinner format for your corporate evenings.
- The Théâtre de verdure (1,000 m²) — the large outdoor space on the heights of the Fort, perfect for team building activities and open-air receptions of up to 200 guests
Full privatisation :
- The Cour du Cavalier + all spaces — up to 1,000 guests in cocktail format, 500 in plenary, 300 for a seated dinner. For large-scale events that call for a unique and memorable setting.
Our spaces are detailed with their capacities and configurations on the event spaces page and the photo gallery gives a realistic preview of the atmospheres on offer.
Organising an Exclusively Hired Event — in Practice
Privatising a venue doesn't mean everything falls on your shoulders. At Fort de Feyzin, our project managers take charge of coordinating all suppliers: catering, entertainment, technical production, decoration, and security. You define your objectives and your budget — we handle the logistics.
For companies without a dedicated events team, this is often a decisive factor. Organising an exclusive hire is accessible — it isn't reserved for large organisations with specialist HR resources.
Fort de Feyzin is listed among the event venues of the greater Lyon metropolitan area by Only Lyon Pro and Visiter Lyon. The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region also recognises the site's heritage and environmental value.
Discussing Your Privatisation Project
If you have an event in mind and are wondering whether hiring Fort de Feyzin exclusively suits your format and your budget, the best way to find out is to talk to us. Contact our team to check availability and receive a tailored estimate.
