Countryside vs Desert
Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.
Plan a RetreatCountryside
Pastoral estates — manor houses, gardens, and slow luxury.
- Venues
- 28 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 15–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $700–$1,300 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- British Isles · Southeastern United States · Mediterranean Europe
- Best for
- leadership, strategy, team building
Desert
Sculpted stillness — spa mornings, star fields, and clean lines.
- Venues
- 24 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 12–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $600–$1,250 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Africa & Middle East · Western United States · Mountain United States
- Best for
- leadership, celebration, team building
Gleneagles
A storied Scottish estate on 850 acres of glen — a grand hotel with its own railway stop, falconry school, shooting school, and three championship golf courses.
Borgo Egnazia
A resort built as a Puglian village of whitewashed courtyards, 182 rooms across La Corte, the Borgo and standalone houses, with 11 meeting rooms handling groups to 500. Site of the 2024 G7 summit, with a championship golf course, spa and Puglian countryside all around.
Pinehurst Resort
The cradle of American golf — ten courses in the Carolina pines, a grand village resort, and the home of multiple U.S. Opens.
Enchantment Resort
Cradled inside the red-rock walls of Boynton Canyon, a low-slung resort surrounded by trailheads, a renowned canyon spa, and some of the most photographed terrain in America.
La Mamounia
The legendary 1923 palace-hotel — ~209 rooms, 17 acres of walled Moorish gardens, and a 450m² Grand Salon seating ~350 theatre. La Mamounia is the rare Marrakech address that combines true plenary scale with palace theatre: a gala in the gardens, a desert excursion to the Agafay, a hammam-and-souk afternoon as breakouts.
Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North
A casita resort tucked into the Sonoran Desert at the foot of Pinnacle Peak, with 210 rooms and suites spread across low adobe-style buildings among saguaros. Its scale and meeting space make it a workhorse for larger companies that still want desert quiet and Troon North golf next door.