Alpine vs Coastal
Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.
Plan a RetreatAlpine
High-country lodges — summits, cold air, and big vistas.
- Venues
- 25 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 2–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $550–$1,100 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Alpine Europe & Nordic · Mediterranean Europe · Western United States
- Best for
- leadership, team building, celebration
Coastal
Temperate shoreline — sea air, sailing, and clifftop dinners.
- Venues
- 23 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 16–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $650–$1,200 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Mediterranean Europe · Northeastern United States · Alpine Europe & Nordic
- Best for
- celebration, team building, kickoff
Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne
A clifftop resort village 500 m above Lake Lucerne, Bürgenstock spans three hotels (~360 rooms) and a 2,200 m² conference centre seating up to 600 — among the largest premium large-group capacities in the Alps. Arrival by private lake boat and funicular is itself the opening ceremony. It absorbs a full 500-person company while still feeling like a private mountain.
Sun Valley Lodge
America's original destination mountain resort, opened 1936 and renovated in 2015, with 108 rooms and suites, the Sun Valley Inn, rental cottages, and a large convention center handling groups from 10 to 1,000. A summer-forward valley of hiking, cycling, and golf plus a 15-treatment-room spa anchors the retreat, with winter skiing on Bald Mountain.
Millbrook Resort
A 650-acre golf and lifestyle resort in the Wakatipu Basin under the Remarkables, with 160 rooms across studios, suites and resort homes — capacity for 350-plus guests and all four onsite restaurants privately bookable. It's the rare Queenstown property that can take a large group end-to-end while putting bungee, jet-boating, heli-wine and the Otago wine country all within reach. The Southern Alps do the rest.
Costa Navarino (Navarino Dunes / Bay)
A 1,000-hectare seaside destination on the unspoiled Messinian coast with four 5-star resorts (The Romanos, The Westin, W, Mandarin Oriental) totalling 1,000+ keys, two signature golf courses, and a beachfront conference centre. A company can take a full hotel as its basecamp and spill activities across the whole estate. This is the Mediterranean answer to a true 500-person retreat without leaving one address.
Terranea Resort
A 102-acre bluff-top estate on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with 582 guest rooms, casitas, and villas and more than 135,000 sq ft of flexible event space. The Palos Verdes Grand Ballroom seats 1,000 and receptions run to 1,500, so this hosts the largest cliffside offsites on the West Coast.
Chatham Bars Inn
A 1914 oceanfront estate on 25 acres at the elbow of Cape Cod, with 217 rooms across the Main Inn and cottages and a working eight-acre farm inland. Cottage clusters let a company split into teams while sharing the beach, boathouse, and event lawns.