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Tropical vs Countryside

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

Plan a Retreat

Tropical

Palm-and-reef estates — warm water, jungle, and reset energy.

Venues
42 exclusive-buyout estates
Typical group
20–500 guests
Indicative budget
$700–$1,400 pp/night
Concentrated in
Caribbean & Latin America · Southeast Asia · Hawaii
Best for
celebration, leadership, team building

Countryside

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
Standout estates
tropical50500 guests

Casa de Campo Resort & Villas

A 7,000-acre private estate that has hosted heads of state and Fortune 100 incentive groups for 50 years — the rare Caribbean property where the signature experience is built in: a championship polo program, a 245-station shooting course (the best year-round in the Caribbean), Pete Dye's Teeth of the Dog golf, a deep-water marina for billfish, and an Altos de Chavón replica Mediterranean village for the closing-night gala. You take villas and hotel inventory together, so a single group owns its own corner of the resort.

tropical100500 guests

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea

A full-buyout-capable oceanfront resort in Wailea with 40,000+ sq ft of event space across 19 indoor/outdoor venues and reception capacity to 750. Entire-property takeovers give a company total privacy on the Wailea coast — the Hawaii hero that scales to a 300–500 plenary while still feeling like a private island compound.

tropical50400 guests

Six Senses Uluwatu

A 103-key clifftop resort on the limestone headland of Uluwatu, with most rooms facing the Indian Ocean swell and the temple at Pura Luhur on the horizon. The Aarunya ballroom and private lawn step straight onto the cliff edge, and the whole property absorbs a full-company gathering without ever feeling like a convention hotel. The sunset surf break below is one of the most famous in the world.

countryside80500 guests

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.

countryside40400 guests

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.

countryside24300 guests

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.