Tropical vs Private Island
Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.
Plan a RetreatTropical
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
Private Island
Whole-island buyout — total privacy and a captive company.
- Venues
- 18 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 10–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $1,200–$2,350 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Caribbean & Latin America · Australasia · Southeast Asia
- Best for
- leadership, celebration, team building
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.
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.
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.
Atlantis Paradise Island
The Caribbean's only true large-conference campus that still feels like a holiday: 500,000+ sq ft of meeting space, a 50,000-sq-ft Imperial Ballroom that seats 4,000, plus 11-acre Aquaventure waterscape, an open-air marine habitat, a Tom Weiskopf golf course and a 63-slip mega-yacht marina. This is the one tropical basecamp that genuinely absorbs even several-hundred-strong companies — and well beyond — without partner overflow.
InterContinental Hayman Great Barrier Reef
The northernmost private island in the Whitsundays, taken whole, with 182 rooms, suites and villas and 15 indoor/outdoor event venues across the property. Guests arrive by a 50-minute yacht transfer from Hamilton Island, which makes the whole offsite feel like an expedition the moment it begins. Whitehaven Beach and the outer Great Barrier Reef are day-trips by tender.
Petit St. Vincent
A 115-acre private island resort in the southern Grenadines with 22 one- and two-bedroom cottages spread across the hillsides and beaches, holding up to 56 guests. No phones or TVs in the cottages, seven beaches and a whole island for an executive group.