For teams

An offsite where the only thing your team has to do is show up.

Somebody at your company has been quietly dreading organising this. We take the whole operational half — rooms, wifi, transport, food, the evening — and give you one contact and one invoice.

How this works

Four things we take off you.

Wifi we have actually tested

We have run a speed test in every room we put a team in, and we will tell you the number. A retreat venue with beautiful photographs and 4 Mbps has ruined more offsites than bad weather.

One invoice, proper paperwork

A single itemised invoice in USD or COP, with the supplier costs broken out. Whatever your finance team needs to approve it, ask and we will format it that way.

The day is scheduled, the evening is not accidental

Sessions in the morning, something real in the afternoon, dinner somewhere that will take twenty people without splitting them across three tables.

Transport that respects a calendar

Bogotá traffic decides how much of your day you actually get. Private vehicles, timed against the real thing rather than the map estimate.

Hand-picked

The afternoon that people actually remember.

Team activities that are not trust falls. Everything here works for a group of eight to thirty, splits into teams cleanly, and gives people something to talk about that is not work.

Food & Drink

A Working Coffee Finca

Not a coffee museum — a family farm on a steep green slope where you pick, pulp, wash, dry, roast and finally drink, and where the grower explains what the price on your supermarket bag actually pays them.

7 hoursmax 10Moderate

From

$35–$145

per person

Culture

Comuna 13 Graffitour, with guides from the barrio

The hillside barrio that went from the most feared address in Medellín to an open-air gallery, walked with someone who grew up in it. Outdoor escalators, murals with meanings, and the 2002 military operation told by the people it happened to.

4 hoursmax 12Moderate

From

$20–$45

per person

Food & Drink

Cooking Class: Bandeja Paisa & Arepas

Shop the market, then cook the most excessive plate in Colombian cuisine — beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, morcilla, egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa, all on one plate — and then eat it.

3.5 hoursmax 8Easy

From

$55–$110

per person

Culture

Tejo Night: The Explosive National Sport

You throw a lead disc at a clay pit packed with gunpowder envelopes, and when it detonates the whole room cheers. Tejo is free to play as long as you keep buying beer, which tells you everything about it.

2.5 hoursmax 12Easy

From

$25–$55

per person

Day Trip

Guatapé & the Rock of El Peñol

A 220-metre granite monolith with 740 steps zigzagging up its face, and from the top an archipelago of flooded green valleys that looks unreal. Then Guatapé itself, where every building carries a painted zócalo panel.

11 hoursmax 14Moderate

From

$40–$110

per person

Adventure

Whitewater Rafting on the Río Calderas

Grade II–IV rafting near Cocorná, an hour and a half from the city, through a warm forested gorge. Enough water to be genuinely exciting and enough guiding not to be stupid.

9 hoursmax 8Challenging

From

$50–$180

per person

Water

Catamaran Sunset Sail

Out through the reef pass under sail as the light goes, with the island turning gold behind you and the water running through every colour it has. Two hours, drinks aboard, and no engine noise.

2 hoursmax 20Easy

From

$30–$85

per person

Culture

Bogotá Graffiti Tour

Bogotá has one of the most permissive street-art environments in the world, for a specific and uncomfortable reason involving a police shooting in 2011. A working artist walks you through the murals and the politics.

2.5 hoursmax 25Easy

Suggested

$12–$30

pay what you think it was worth

Money

Per head, per day, with the parts shown.

Offsites are quoted rather than listed, because the room and the group size move the number more than anything else. As a shape:

Meeting space, wifi, coffee, lunch
$45–90 per person / day
Afternoon activity, private for your group
$35–95 per person
Private transport, per vehicle per day
$95–220
Airport arrivals handled for the whole team
$190 per group

Everything supplied by a third party is billed at their rate plus 10%, itemised on the invoice. Our coordination fee is a fee, not a percentage of your budget.

What we will tell you not to do.

Not every idea survives contact with a Tuesday in Bogotá. If the schedule you want needs four hours of driving to fit, or the venue you have found has no real bandwidth, we will say so before you book rather than after. We would rather run a smaller retreat that works.

Asked often

Before you ask.

How big a group can you take?

Comfortably up to about thirty. Beyond that it stops being one retreat and becomes two, and we will say so.

Can you invoice a company abroad?

Yes, in USD or COP, itemised. Tell us what your finance team needs on it and we will put it there.

Do you handle flights?

We do not sell them, but we will tell you which routings actually connect and which ones will strand half your team in Bogotá overnight.

What if someone has dietary requirements?

Send them with the request. Colombian kitchens handle vegetarian easily, vegan and coeliac with notice — which is why we want the notice.

Tell us roughly, and we will come back specifically.

Add anything above to your trip and send it over, or just describe what you are picturing. Either way a person here reads it and replies — nothing is booked and nothing is charged until you have a written price you are happy with.