Resort Rejuvenation: The Best Meeting Places and Spaces for Your Minnesota Corporate Retreat

Ah … the corporate retreat. Time to get away with the crew, do some team building, brainstorm fresh ideas, create new connections, and hopefully, relax and have some fun. Your challenge? Finding comfortable resort accommodations in an optimal location with the amenities you require and the diversity to suit all your attendees. When it comes to corporate retreats, it’s time to get creative! Don’t make a resort your last resort, make it your first choice.

There are resorts aplenty from which to choose. Many offer customized corporate retreat packages that focus in on your specific needs with regard to sleeping rooms, meeting spaces, meals and after-hours entertainment. Best of all, with everything conveniently located on-site, you’ll be better able to manage your agenda, as well as keep transportation costs low.

Consider a Casino

Minnesota Casinos offer plenty of meeting and event space for you to spread out and get your work done, most with Wifi capabilities and business centers. Multiple on-site restaurants with private dining offer variety for banquets and catering, while many properties will boast additional on-site perks, such as golf courses, swimming pools, spa facilities and more. And of course, there’s always the gambling and entertainment. Because casinos operate 24 hours a day, they’re usually a good choice when there’s lots of flexibility in your schedule and activities.

Visit our Minnesota Casino Guide to learn more about Canterbury Park, Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Fortune Bay Resort Casino, or one of two Grand Casino Hinckley and Grand Casino Mille Lacs locations for your best bet for a casino retreat in Minnesota.

Get the Gang Golfing

It’s said that more deals are made on a golf course than in a board room. Obviously, a golf course is competitive, relaxing and enjoyable, while a board room is, well, boring. Look for resorts that feature championship golf courses and play a round (or two) with the team. These resort venues usually offer additional activities for spouses or those on your team who may not choose to hit the links, but instead want to take advantage of on-site waterparks, spas, restaurants, shopping or nearby activities.

Hit a hole in one when you book your corporate retreat at any of the following Minnesota resorts with on-site golf courses, including:

Arrowwood Resort + Conference Center, Cragun's Conference and Golf Resort,  Grand View Lodge, and Ruttger's Bay Lake Lodge. Learn more about these fabulous golf resorts and others in our Minnesota Golf Resort Guide.

Linger at the Lakeshore

Resorts that cozy up next to lakes are some of the best places to hold corporate retreats. Often accommodations feature a pastoral ambience, combined with stunning views and offering exciting activities year round, from boating to fishing to ice skating. Large outdoor expanses allow for creative team building exercises, while generously-sized indoor spaces help your attendees find quiet time to focus.

While all of  the above named golf resorts reside on a lake, so does the lovely Superior Shores Resort + Conference Center located in Northeastern Minnesota. Learn more about these vendors and more in our complete listing of Minnesota lake resorts for your next retreat.

Make Your Mark in the Mountains

Most retreats are a success because they’re memorable. However, much of what we retain in our memories is triggered not only by sights and sounds, but by scents and tactile stimuli.  A retreat at a mountain resort offers all that — expansive vistas, the silence of a snowstorm, the aromas of fresh pine and clean mountain air, and the feel of rock and gravel beneath hiking boots. And then of course, there’s skiing, hiking, snow shoeing, ice skating, snowmobiling and about a million other ways to creatively integrate the great outdoors into your corporate agenda.

Schuss on down and get lifted up at a great mountain resort, find a complete listing of Minnesota mountain resorts here.

Saddle Up at a Ranch

What could be a better team building exercise than driving cattle? Well, maybe a rope course; or fly fishing lessons; or hikes in the wilderness; or more sedate trail rides through the forest. Expansive and often rustic, Ranch resorts offer an exciting opportunity for your attendees to connect and collaborate in an atmosphere that inspires just as many new ideas, as it does hearty appetites. Comfy accommodations will be mighty attractive after a full day of activities.

Mosey on over to a Minnesota ranch resort for the most memorable corporate retreat ever.

Surf on Over to a Waterpark

Ride the waves to a successful retreat by booking your bunch at a waterpark resort. Not the most business-like atmosphere you say? Maybe it’s time for your crew to float outside their comfort zone? After all, the same old environment is going to produce the same old results. For creativity to surface, you need the kind of fun, open spaces and engaging group activities available at most waterparks - everything from formal meeting spaces to informal relaxing places, golf courses, spas, onsite restaurants and much more.

Dive into a new idea and book your bunch at a Minnesota waterpark resort like the Radisson Hotel Bloomington by Mall of America for your next corporate retreat.

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