How long does it take, and do I have to talk to anyone?+
48 hours, and no. Send the brief on a Tuesday afternoon and the plan is in your inbox before Thursday morning. There is no call at any point — not a discovery call, not a scoping call, not a call at the end. We do not do calls, so nobody is going to try to sell you anything by voice. If you would rather ask something first, email works.
What does it cost me?+
The plan is free and yours to keep whether or not you book. The venue’s price is the venue’s — we are the marketplace, so there is no agency stacked between you and them. Our own planning fee is a flat amount, agreed in writing, sitting on its own line inside the same budget you are reading, and it never moves as a percentage of what you spend. You see that number in the plan, before you commit to anything.
Why is your fee not published as a number on this page?+
Because it is set per brief and we are not going to print a figure here that we then quietly change in an email. What we will commit to publicly is the shape of it: flat, in writing, in the same table as everything else, never a cut of your spend, and visible before you owe anything. And there is a floor under the risk — every venue on this page links to its own website, and the listing each price came from is public, so if you decide the fee is not worth it you can take the plan and book the venue yourself.
What do you actually need from me?+
A work email. That is the only required field. Your headcount and nights are already filled in from the page you were looking at, and everything else — company, name, dates, budget, what the retreat is for — is optional and only makes the plan sharper. A brief with rough dates in it gets a better answer than one without, because availability is the one thing nobody can answer without asking.
Have you done this before?+
No. No company has run a corporate retreat through RetreatBird yet. That is why there are no logos on this page, no case studies, no testimonials and no satisfaction scores — there is nothing true to show, so we show nothing. What exists is the catalogue you are reading, every fact on it traceable to the venue’s own words, and a plan you can judge on its own merits before you spend a euro.
We are 60 people. 120. Are we too big for you?+
No. The list on this page is what you can browse this second — venues that have already put a group size in writing. It is not the ceiling on what we will go and get. Above it we source: we read venues’ own sites, keep only the ones that state a number that covers you, email the operators about your dates, and the plan comes back with what each of them said. Put your real headcount in the box at the top and the page shows you both halves — what is listed at your size, and the venues we have already verified at it.
What if none of the options work?+
Then you keep the plan and we stop. There is no deposit to get back and no retainer. Every venue in it is one that stated it fits your group, so the plan never pads a shortlist with near-misses — and if the ones we approached came back full or wrong, the plan says so in its first line and names who we asked next.
