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Coastal vs Urban

Two kinds of place, side by side — who each one suits, what each one costs, and where they concentrate. The setting decides the tone of the whole week, so it is worth deciding on purpose.

Design a retreat

Coastal

Temperate shoreline — sea air, sailing, and clifftop dinners.

Venues
23 private 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

Urban

City venues — client entertaining and downtown energy.

Venues
20 private estates
Typical group
40–300 guests
Indicative budget
$550–$1,025 pp/night
Concentrated in
Southeastern United States · Northeastern United States · Western United States
Best for
strategy, kickoff, leadership
Standout estates
coastal100–500 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.

coastal50–500 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.

coastal40–400 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.

urban60–300 guests

1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge

A 195-room sustainability-led hotel sitting directly on Brooklyn Bridge Park with full Manhattan-skyline views. Reclaimed-material interiors, 18,000-plus square feet of event space, and a 400-banquet ballroom make it one of the few New York properties that can host a 300-person kickoff and sleep the whole group.

urban80–300 guests

Faena Hotel Miami Beach

The oceanfront flagship of the Faena District, a Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin production with a gold mammoth, a Damien Hirst, and 180 rooms. On-property function space runs to 750 reception, and the adjacent OMA-designed Faena Forum handles plenaries to 1,000, giving a company both spectacle and scale.

urban60–300 guests

The LINE LA

A design hotel in Koreatown with 12,000 square feet of event space, an in-house greenhouse restaurant by Michelin-starred chef Josiah Citrin, and capacity for receptions to 425. Its full event floor plus a walkable, food-dense neighborhood make it a natural Los Angeles offsite base.