Coastal vs Vineyard
Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.
Plan a RetreatCoastal
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
Vineyard
Estate wine country — long tables, tastings, and golden light.
- Venues
- 21 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 10–400 guests
- Indicative budget
- $650–$1,300 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Mediterranean Europe · Western United States · Caribbean & Latin America
- Best for
- celebration, strategy, leadership
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.
Marcus Whitman Hotel & Conference Center
A 1928 landmark tower in downtown Walla Walla, the base camp for one of America's fastest-rising wine regions. 133 rooms, a full conference center and four tasting rooms in the building itself, with more than 120 wineries within a short drive.
Novotel Barossa Valley Resort
A 140-room resort set among vines in the heart of the Barossa, one of Australia's great wine regions. Nine purpose-built event venues seat up to 250 theater or 180 banquet, with balconies over the vineyards and Shiraz cellars minutes in every direction.
Castello di Casole
A 4,200-acre restored 10th-century castle estate near Siena, surrounded by its own vineyards, olive groves, and cypress-lined roads made for driving.