The group will be staying at the five star boutique hotel, The Grand Powers, in the heart of Paris.
You will arrive to The Grand Powers Hotel where you will be able to check into your room and rest or take in the sights. Since the group may arrive at different times or days, we can set up transfers to the hotel on a needed basis.
In the evening we will be picked up from the hotel at 6:00PM by our private chauffeur and taken to our private yacht , Victoria, for a special cocktail hour, including free flowing Dom Perignon, and dinner cruise down the Seine River to the Eiffel Tower, a beautiful sight by night. A full crew will be on hand to serve you throughout the evening.
The Victoria was recently refurbished. Its bright interior is spacious enough to spread out with a bar for cocktails and beautiful dining area for dinner. There is also an upstairs deck for cocktails and refreshments weather permitting.
We will then be transferred back to the hotel for the evening.
The morning will be at your leisure.
At 11:00AM we will be picked up for our private transfer to Château Domaine de Sandricourt. The drive is around an hour to and hour and a half.
Upon arrival at the Chateau, Thibault and his staff will be there to greet us with welcome champagne and French delicate snacks before we are shown to our respective rooms. Once settled in, we will have lunch. After lunch the shooters will head to the gun room to pick out their pair of guns for the stay. After a brief safety talk and some introductions, we'll head across the street to shoot some clays and get used the the firearms.
After the shoot, we will head back to the chateau and enjoy some down time with cocktails followed by a wonderful dinner.
Meals at Sandricourt are traditional french style consisting of an appetizer, followed by your main dish and afterwards will be presented with some salad greens and cheese board. This will be finished off with a delightful French desert .
Each night ends with either tea, coffee, and/or cocktails in the grand living room by the fire.
The morning starts with a great French breakfast of pastries and fruits.
For today's hunting - it is focused solely on English style driven Grey partridges. Once postes are drawn, you'll head out to the first of seven drives. After the 4 morning drives, we'll return to the Chateau for lunch for a midday meal. After lunch, we will go out for the final 3 drives. The day will end with once again a wonderful tableau and Champagne toast before cleaning up for a cocktail hour and dinner.
*The English Grey partridge are different from the partridge you'll find in Spain or Morocco. They are a bit smaller, fly faster, and fly in a covey. They are challenging yet extremely fun to hunt. Steve, the head games keeper, is an export in presenting them well to the line of guns and gives the line ample opportunities to reach the 200 bird bag limit.
The non-shooters will have a day of touring Château d'Auvers-sur-Oise with a private guided tour of the Van Gogh exhibition followed by lunch.
Cocktail hour and dinner to follow.
The morning starts with a great French breakfast of pastries and fruits.
The shooters will then get ready and meet in the gun room around 9:00am. Thibault will introduce you to the games keeper and give a morning briefing and safety talk. After drawing your poste, you'll be introduced to your loader for the day and then pile into the new truck to head to the first drive. Today is a pheasant day. At a generous bag of 400 birds, we'll have 4 or 5 drives throughout the day. After the first drive, we'll enjoy some beverages and soup by the fire while the beaters head to the next drive. Between drives two and three, we'll head back to the chateau for lunch.
The day will end with a tableau in front of the chateau hosted by the games keeper. We'll enjoy some champagne and toast to the birds, loaders, beaters, and shooters!
The non-shooters will have a day of touring Château de Chantilly with a private guided tour of the castle followed by a festive lunch.
Cocktail hour and dinner to follow.
After breakfast, we will say our goodbyes and depart at 8:30AM from Sandricourt with our private driver to Versailles.
We will have a private and exclusive tour of the Palace of Versailles. This tour is a unique excursion outside the usual tourist areas. A specialized private guide will accompany us to the most secret sites of Versailles. Customized tours of the areas that are not open to the public. The Palace of Versailles holds genuine treasures unknown to visitors, with secret passages, rooms, private apartments, bathrooms and other hidden places. Apartments belonging to kings, queens, mistresses and courtiers in this royal residence, a symbol of French absolutism and artistic and cultural influence, reveal everyday life in the Court and key events in the history of France.
After the tour, we will have a private brunch at 12:30PM in Airelles Chateau de Versailles. The different dishes are carefully served one after another, as part of this incredible feast of yesteryear. Start with a hot drink of your choice, such as Alain Ducasse’s hot chocolate. In between courses, enjoy a refreshing cold seasonal fruit juice. A selection of bread and brioche will be brought out with delicious dips.
We will then transfer to L'Abbaye des Vaux de Cernary where we'll check in and stay for the next two nights.
Dinner will be in the La Trattoria restaurant at 7:30PM. La Trattoria is an Italian restaurant with old fashioned ambiance that you would find in the Italian countryside.
In the morning, a private transfer for the hunters at 8:15AM will be provided to Chateau de Voisins for their shooting day of driven mallards and pheasants.
Before lunch, a private transfer will transfer the non-hunters at 11:30AM to the chateau to join the hunters for lunch and back to enjoy the chateau for the afternoon. After the conclusion of the tableau, we will all be transferred back to L'Abbaye des Vaux de Cernary for the evening.
Dinner will be at the L’Auberge at 7:30PM. L’Auberge is the epitome of chic sophistication at a quintessential country table.
Morning
After breakfast, for those that will be transferred back to Paris.
