Desert Retreats
24 desert venues for corporate retreats of any size. Every venue available for exclusive buyout.
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Enchantment Resort
Sedona, Arizona (Boynton Canyon)
Cradled inside the red-rock walls of Boynton Canyon, a low-slung resort surrounded by trailheads, a renowned canyon spa, and some of the most photographed terrain in America.
La Mamounia
Marrakech medina, edge of the Atlas/Agafay
The legendary 1923 palace-hotel — ~209 rooms, 17 acres of walled Moorish gardens, and a 450m² Grand Salon seating ~350 theatre. La Mamounia is the rare Marrakech address that combines true plenary scale with palace theatre: a gala in the gardens, a desert excursion to the Agafay, a hammam-and-souk afternoon as breakouts.
The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Wadi Desert
Al Wadi Nature Reserve, Ras Al Khaimah
109 private pool-villas scattered across a 1,235-acre desert nature reserve an hour from Dubai. Dune-scale capacity meets Bedouin theatre: falconry at dawn, a marquee gala in the dunes, horse-riding and archery as breakouts — all under one luxury operator with five meeting rooms and a brand corporate planning bench.
Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort
Al Hajar Mountains / Saiq Plateau, ~2,000m above the Grand Canyon of Arabia
115 rooms and cliff-edge pool villas perched at 2,000m on the rim of Oman's 'Grand Canyon of Arabia.' The dramatic escarpment delivers a genuinely different desert-mountain register — via-ferrata and canyon-edge dinners by day, conference and gala space for the full group, and a cool climate that programs comfortably when the Gulf below is too hot.
Royal Mansour Marrakech
Marrakech, Morocco
Each guest gets a 3-storey private riad; the most opulent buyout in the medina for a small board.
Kasbah Tamadot (Virgin Limited Edition)
Atlas Mountains (Asni/Imlil), Morocco
Branson's Atlas hideaway, ~1hr from Marrakech; whole-property mountain offsite incl. Berber tents.
Scarabeo Stone Camp / Agafay Luxury Tented Camps
Agafay Desert, Morocco
Snow-Atlas backdrop, camel/quad and stargazing dinners 45 min from Marrakech; great single-day or overflow camp.
Selman Marrakech
Marrakech, Morocco
Jacques Garcia palace-hotel with thoroughbred Arabian-horse theatre for galas.
La Sultana Marrakech / Oualidia
Marrakech & Atlantic coast, Morocco
Intimate riad-palace for a leadership group; coastal sister property for a beach finale.
Banyan Tree AlUla
Ashar Valley, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Tented villas beneath Nabataean sandstone cliffs; AlUla's Maraya mirrored hall hosts the big plenary.
Our Habitas AlUla + Caravan by Habitas
AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Largest AlUla group capacity in the canyon (96 villas + 22 Airstreams); bohemian-luxe, festival-grade event ops.
Six Senses Southern Dunes, The Red Sea
Umluj / Red Sea, Saudi Arabia
Dune-and-Red-Sea wellness flagship on Saudi's new Red Sea project; desert + beach in one.
Six Senses Zighy Bay
Musandam Peninsula, Oman
Arrive by paraglide or speedboat into a hidden mountain-rimmed bay; dramatic Gulf theatre 1.5hr from Dubai.
Al Maha, a Luxury Collection Desert Resort & Spa
Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve, UAE
Oryx-and-dune reserve 45 min from DXB; intimate Arabian retreat for a leadership group.
Bab Al Shams Desert Resort
Dubai desert, UAE
Fortress-style desert resort built for big banquets and galas (Al Hadheerah); strong large-group capacity near Dubai.
Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara
Liwa / Empty Quarter (Rub' al Khali), Abu Dhabi, UAE
A fortress amid the world's largest sand sea; genuine 200+ single-property capacity for a full company in the deep desert.
Gateway Canyons Resort
Gateway, CO (red-rock, SW Colorado)
A remote red-rock resort with a renowned auto museum, off-road and air programming, and near-buyout privacy in southwest Colorado.
The Phoenician
Scottsdale, AZ
160,000 sq ft of indoor/outdoor space, an Estrella Theatre to 600 and a Grand Ballroom for galas to 2,500 — a Sonoran-desert big-campus in Scottsdale.
Amangiri
Canyon Point, Utah
A monolithic desert resort folded into 900 acres of mesas and slot canyons on the Utah–Arizona line, paired with the tented Camp Sarika. Booked together, the 34-suite resort and ten Sarika pavilions give a company its own stretch of the Colorado Plateau, built around a pool wrapped in an escarpment.
Four Seasons Resort Scottsdale at Troon North
Scottsdale, Arizona
A casita resort tucked into the Sonoran Desert at the foot of Pinnacle Peak, with 210 rooms and suites spread across low adobe-style buildings among saguaros. Its scale and meeting space make it a workhorse for larger companies that still want desert quiet and Troon North golf next door.
Boulders Resort & Spa
Carefree / North Scottsdale, Arizona
Set across 1,300 acres of Sonoran Desert around 12-million-year-old granite boulder formations, this Curio Collection resort offers 221 casitas, villas and haciendas plus two golf courses and a large spa. Its footprint and multi-bedroom villas suit big off-sites that mix all-hands with team competitions.
Longitude 131°
Uluru-Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory
Sixteen tented pavilions on privately owned dune country with direct sightlines to Uluru and Kata Tjuta, run by Baillie Lodges. A whole-camp buyout gives a leadership group its own front-row view of the Red Centre, with the Field of Light and dune-top dinners on the doorstep.
Alila Jabal Akhdar
Al Hajar Mountains, Nizwa
A stone-clad resort at 2,000 metres on the rim of a canyon in Oman's Al Hajar mountains, with 86 suites and villas overlooking terraced rose villages and deep wadis. The altitude keeps it temperate year-round, and the scale handles a full company with via-ferrata, wadi drives and Nizwa fort trips nearby.
Six Senses Shaharut
Negev Desert, Arava Valley
A 60-suite desert resort built into the topography of the Negev above the Arava Valley, with views to the Edom Mountains of Jordan. It combines a working camel farm, a spa and wellness programming with the space to host a full company far from any city glow.