A four-day offsite that doesn't burn a Friday on travel. Twelve people, one house, one dock, zero hotel hallways. Most teams stop checking Slack by Tuesday afternoon — we've watched it happen often enough that we now leave the cell-signal map on the kitchen counter, so you can find the one corner of the deck where it works.
A four-day offsite that doesn't burn a Friday on travel. Land at YYJ at 9am, in the great room with whiteboards by 10:30. Sauna at five, dinner on the dock at seven. Twelve people. One house. One dock. Zero hotel hallways. Most teams stop checking Slack by Tuesday afternoon.
This is what most groups end up doing. Skip whatever doesn't fit; the agenda is yours.
The shape of two working days, written down so you can argue with it.
The boring questions teams email us before they book. Here are the answers we usually paste back.
The boring questions, answered before you ask them.
The great room sits twelve around one table. Cedar smoke from the fire pit reaches the deck most evenings in October. Boards and leadership teams use us when they need three days to argue, not three days to look at slides.
We host roughly forty corporate groups a year, mostly between September and May. Quiet weekdays, no weddings overlapping, no other guests on the lake side of the property.
Talk to Brianna
Pickleball after lunch. A swim before dinner. The Kinsol Trestle hike, twenty minutes south, takes ninety minutes round-trip. Wakesurfing in July when the lake hits seventy-six degrees. None of it is mandatory; most of it happens anyway.
The cell signal is honest two bars on the deck and patchy on the dock. We've found that helps.
Plan a weekday block
We work with two private chefs in the Cowichan Valley who cook out of our kitchen. Halibut from Cowichan Bay in summer, Cowichan duck and root vegetables in winter. Most groups skip the in-and-out lunch debate and let us run the menu.
If you'd rather cook, the kitchen has two ovens, a six-burner gas range, and enough cookware for sixteen. Costco run on request.
Ask about chefs
The wood-fired sauna seats six and reaches a hundred and eighty by sunset in winter. The lake is fifteen feet away. Most teams figure out the rhythm by day two: session, sauna, swim, dinner — yes, even in February.
Yoga instructors come in from Cobble Hill if you'd like a Saturday morning class. Two days' notice.
Add to your weekend
Corporate weekday pricing (Mon–Thu, off-peak): from $4,500/night for the Lakeside House. From $5,500/night for the whole property. Three-night minimum. Cleaning fee $450. Catering and AV add-ons are separate; Brianna will price them with the proposal.
Most teams book Monday to Thursday in the shoulder months and pay roughly the same as a downtown Victoria conference room — with better coffee and a lake.
Request a corporate proposal — Brianna replies within 4 hoursNone of it is required. All of it is here.
One court, paddles in the bin, balls in the basket. Most groups end up with a bracket by Saturday afternoon.
1-2 hours
Mt. Baldy is twenty minutes; Kinsol Trestle is fifteen. We'll point you at the right one for the weather.
2-4 hours
Four paddleboards, two kayaks, one wakesurf boat (chartered through a local skipper from June to September).
2-3 hours
Yoga instructors come in from Cobble Hill on two days' notice. Sauna runs every evening from five.
1-2 hours
The kitchen handles sixteen comfortably. Halibut from Cowichan Bay or Cowichan duck from True Grain. We'll do the grocery run.
2-3 hours
Home theatre seats eight. Ping-pong table in the games room. Catan, Codenames, and three decks of cards in the cabinet.
2-4 hours"We came up Monday morning, ran two days of strategy, and were home Wednesday night. The team got more done than we did in three days at the Fairmont last year. Half of it happened in the sauna."— Kensen Wah
The basics, with no surprise line items.
Sixty feet of waterfront. The water is warm enough to swim from late June through September.
Wood-fired sauna seats six. Hot tub stays at 102°F year-round.
One court, paddles and balls in the bin courtside.
Six-burner gas range, two ovens, cookware for sixteen.
Over fibre — we pay for fast because we work from here. Backup 5G hotspot if your CFO needs redundancy.
Mt. Baldy, Cobble Hill, Kinsol Trestle — all under twenty-five minutes by car.
In the games room. Two paddles in the drawer underneath.
One table for twelve indoors. One for sixteen on the deck.
Treadmill, rower, dumbbells to fifty pounds, yoga mats.
Great room, home theatre, cottage living room, plus two quiet booths.
Tell Brianna what you want; she'll line it up.
Two regulars from the Cowichan Valley. Halibut, duck, root vegetables in season.
From Cobble Hill, two days' notice. Mats provided.
Two we've used a dozen times each. Both run strategy and offsite design.
For Mt. Baldy or longer Cowichan Valley routes.
Mornings or evenings, group sizes up to twelve.
Boat and skipper through a local charter, June through September.
Two boards on site. Most beginners are riding by hour two.
Boat and coach through the same charter that runs the ski lessons.
One instructor in Mill Bay does morning sessions on the deck.
Whatever you've done before that worked, we'll line it up here.
You send the headcount and the dates. We handle the rest. Package options include:
Most of our recent corporate groups have come from Victoria, Vancouver, and Seattle. We host roughly forty a year, mostly between September and May.
Tell Brianna the headcount and the week you're aiming at. She'll come back within four hours with rates, a sample agenda, and a hold for forty-eight hours so you can poll the team.