Urban vs Ranch
Two ways to run a company offsite, side by side — group size, budget, where each concentrates, and the estates worth booking.
Plan a RetreatUrban
City venues — client entertaining and downtown energy.
- Venues
- 20 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 40–300 guests
- Indicative budget
- $550–$1,025 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Southeastern United States · Northeastern United States · Western United States
- Best for
- strategy, kickoff, leadership
Ranch
Wide-open working land — riding, fire pits, and rugged bonding.
- Venues
- 16 exclusive-buyout estates
- Typical group
- 30–500 guests
- Indicative budget
- $600–$1,100 pp/night
- Concentrated in
- Mountain United States · Western United States · Caribbean & Latin America
- Best for
- team building, leadership, celebration
1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge
A 195-room sustainability-led hotel sitting directly on Brooklyn Bridge Park with full Manhattan-skyline views. Reclaimed-material interiors, 18,000-plus square feet of event space, and a 400-banquet ballroom make it one of the few New York properties that can host a 300-person kickoff and sleep the whole group.
Faena Hotel Miami Beach
The oceanfront flagship of the Faena District, a Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin production with a gold mammoth, a Damien Hirst, and 180 rooms. On-property function space runs to 750 reception, and the adjacent OMA-designed Faena Forum handles plenaries to 1,000, giving a company both spectacle and scale.
The LINE LA
A design hotel in Koreatown with 12,000 square feet of event space, an in-house greenhouse restaurant by Michelin-starred chef Josiah Citrin, and capacity for receptions to 425. Its full event floor plus a walkable, food-dense neighborhood make it a natural Los Angeles offsite base.
Devil's Thumb Ranch Resort & Spa
A 6,500-acre Rocky Mountain ranch near Winter Park with 20,000 square feet of barn and lodge meeting space that handles groups up to 500. Cabins and lodge rooms sit across the valley; days run to horseback, fly-fishing on the Fraser and Nordic trails in winter.
The Resort at Paws Up
A 37,000-acre Montana ranch on the Blackfoot River that invented luxury 'glamping.' Tented camps, homes, and a tented pavilion host hundreds without ever feeling like a hotel.
Rancho de los Caballeros
An 18,000-acre Sonoran Desert guest ranch north of Phoenix with 79 casitas, its own championship golf course and 12,500 square feet of meeting space. It runs corporate groups of 100-plus, pairing boardroom mornings with trail rides, clay shooting and desert cookouts.