Tropical vs Safari
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
Safari
Big-game conservancies — game drives and once-in-a-career awe.
- Venues
- 20 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 10–450 guests
- Indicative budget
- $1,200–$2,000 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Africa & Middle East
- 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.
Anantara The Royal Livingstone Victoria Falls Hotel
173 colonial-luxe rooms strung along the Zambezi, with private lawn access to the lip of Victoria Falls and conference space for up to ~450 delegates. This is the rare safari-adjacent property that hosts a full company at one address — plenary, gala under the spray, then sundowner cruises and game drives in Mosi-oa-Tunya as breakouts.
Sabi Sabi Private Game Reserve
Four distinct lodges on one of the Big Five's most reliable traversing areas, owner-operated since 1979. Bush Lodge (the flagship, ~25 suites + conference facility) anchors the plenary while Earth Lodge, Selati Camp and Little Bush Camp absorb breakout groups — a coordinated full-reserve buyout that scales past the single-camp ceiling without losing the genuine wilderness feel.
MalaMala Game Reserve
The largest private big-five reserve bordering Kruger, MalaMala shares a 19-kilometre unfenced boundary with the national park and runs three camps — Main Camp, Sable Camp and Rattray's Camp. Taken together they host a full company on one of the highest-density wildlife tracts in Africa.