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Coastal vs Ranch

Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.

Plan a Retreat

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

Ranch

Wide-open working land — riding, fire pits, and rugged bonding.

Venues
16 exclusive-buyout estates
Typical group
30–500 guests
Indicative budget
$600–$1,100 pp/night
Concentrated in
Mountain United States · Western United States · Caribbean & Latin America
Best for
team building, leadership, celebration
Standout estates
coastal100500 guests

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.

coastal50500 guests

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.

coastal40400 guests

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.

ranch40500 guests

Devil's Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa

A 6,500-acre Rocky Mountain ranch near Winter Park with 20,000 square feet of barn and lodge meeting space that handles groups up to 500. Cabins and lodge rooms sit across the valley; days run to horseback, fly-fishing on the Fraser and Nordic trails in winter.

ranch60300 guests

The Resort at Paws Up

A 37,000-acre Montana ranch on the Blackfoot River that invented luxury 'glamping.' Tented camps, homes, and a tented pavilion host hundreds without ever feeling like a hotel.

ranch40300 guests

Rancho de los Caballeros

An 18,000-acre Sonoran Desert guest ranch north of Phoenix with 79 casitas, its own championship golf course and 12,500 square feet of meeting space. It runs corporate groups of 100-plus, pairing boardroom mornings with trail rides, clay shooting and desert cookouts.