Creek Retreats · South Africa & United Kingdom
Take the team somewhere
that changes the conversation.
Two private houses, yours exclusively. One on the South African coast, one in the Norfolk countryside. Both built for teams who need room to think.
See Both RetreatsFor teams of up to 9, a bed each
Most offsites change nothing
You book the venue, you run the agenda, everyone is pleasant about it, and three weeks later the same argument is still going round the same table.
What shifts things is the second evening. The agenda is done, the wine is open, and someone finally says the thing they were never going to say in a meeting room. That does not happen in a hotel, where everyone has their own key and a lobby to disappear into.
Both Creek retreats are exclusive use, so your team has the whole place, including the long table everyone ends up round at midnight. One is a five-minute walk from the beach at Struisbaai. The other is a 300-year-old coaching inn in a Norfolk village.
Struisbaai · South Africa
Cape Creek Retreat
Two and a half hours from Cape Town, far enough that nobody nips back to the office for the afternoon. Seven bedrooms, so nobody has to share. The braai under the pergola runs late, and that is usually when the real decisions get made.
Seven bedrooms and five bathrooms inside the gated Langezandt village, three of those bedrooms in cottages of their own. Nine people fit with a bed each, and the colleague who is up at five does not share a wall with the one who is not.
The kitchen is a working one, with a Smeg oven, a Nespresso machine and a wine fridge, so a caterer or a keen colleague can both get on with it. The lounge is open plan with a fireplace at one end and smart TVs running DSTV and Netflix, and that is where the group ends up once the laptops close.
The old garage is now a games room, with a pool table that converts to table tennis, a dartboard and a loft above it fitted out as a cinema. Wi-Fi reaches the whole house and the sound system takes Spotify, so the courtyard braai runs as late as the conversation does. The beach is a five-minute walk.
Norfolk · United Kingdom
South Creek Retreat
A 300-year-old coaching inn in a Norfolk village, two hours out of London. Six en-suite bedrooms, two of them flexing from super king to twin depending on who you bring. Most groups end up in the wood-fired hot tub on the second evening, which tends to do more for a team than the morning workshop did.
Six en-suite bedrooms for up to eight, a bed each, in a building that has been The Old Chequers for three hundred years and a coaching inn for most of them. Nobody shares a bathroom to make the numbers work.
The lounge and the sun conservatory let a group split in two when it needs to, and the kitchen and the long dining table pull it back together for supper. The games room, with its pool table, arcade machines and big screens, is where the evening goes once the agenda is finished.
Outside, the walled garden faces south-west and holds the sun into the late afternoon, and the wood-fired hot tub is at the end of it. Catering, transport and excursions are arranged on request, so the only thing you have to bring is the team.
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