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Tropical vs Ski Resort

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

Ski Resort

Lift-served villages — slopes by day, fires by night.

Venues
16 exclusive-buyout estates
Typical group
20–500 guests
Indicative budget
$600–$1,350 pp/night
Concentrated in
Mountain United States · Alpine Europe & Nordic · Western United States
Best for
leadership, celebration, 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.

ski-resort50500 guests

Fairmont Chateau Whistler

A grand chateau at the base of Blackcomb Mountain with more than 32,000 sq ft of meeting space across 12 function rooms and capacity for 10 to 1,500 attendees. Ski-in/ski-out to Whistler Blackcomb, an 11,000+ sq ft divisible ballroom, and a large room count make it one of the few true large-scale corporate ski venues in North America.

ski-resort50400 guests

Viceroy Snowmass

Ski-in/ski-out at the base of Snowmass with 22,000 sq ft of event space across six buildings and a Grand Ballroom that seats up to 400. It delivers the Aspen-area cachet without the single-lodge size cap — a true ski-resort buyout-grade basecamp that runs winter slope days or summer alpine programs equally well.

ski-resort40400 guests

Montage Deer Valley

A large mountain resort at the top of Empire Pass with more than 60,000 sq ft of indoor and outdoor meeting space and two ballrooms, so a company can host several hundred people and still ski-in/ski-out to Deer Valley. Guest rooms, suites, and residences flex a program from a leadership offsite to a full-company kickoff.