North Bali Corporate Retreats: Where to Take a Team and How to Plan It

North Bali has a warm coast and cool highlands, an hour apart. A north Bali corporate retreat brings a team here, about three hours by road from the airport. The venues run from beach resorts with meeting rooms to a villa for ten and a highland amphitheatre for fifty.

The Lovina coast from the air, black sand curving past villas and rice fields toward the mountains
The Lovina coast from the air, black sand curving past villas and rice fields toward the mountains. Photo: Palm Living archive.
On this page
  1. In Brief
  2. North Bali Corporate Retreats at a Glance
  3. Three Reasons to Take a Team North
  4. Choose the Format First, Then the Venue
  5. Two Resorts With Meeting Rooms
  6. Two Venues a Team Can Have to Itself
  7. Two Highland Venues: An Amphitheatre and a Golf Resort
  8. Team Days Out: Dolphins, Reefs, Waterfalls, Cooking and Golf
  9. Practical Notes: Transfers, Food, Wi-Fi and the Calendar
  10. Five Questions to Ask Any Venue Before You Sign
  11. FAQ
  12. Sources

In Brief

A Bali corporate retreat on the north coast is about three hours' drive from the airport. The venues take teams of ten to a hundred people, on the beach or in the highlands.

For a conference-style offsite of forty to a hundred people, Puri Bagus Lovina at Pemaron has a pavilion and an executive meeting room. Both come with audio-visual equipment and an events team. Menjangan Dynasty Resort in the north-west has meeting rooms from small to combined, with Wi-Fi, projectors and catering.

For a working retreat of up to twenty, Alamanda Lovina Resort can be booked in full. A leadership team of ten fits Villa Lovina Hill Paradise, whose listing names corporate retreats among its uses.

In the highlands, Munduk Tentrem has an amphitheatre for fifty, offered for corporate events. Handara Golf & Resort at Pancasari lists meeting rooms beside a mountain golf course. Rates and packages are on each venue's own page, linked in its entry below.

North Bali Corporate Retreats at a Glance

  • Meeting rooms on the beach: Puri Bagus Lovina, Pemaron (40 to 100 participants)
  • Meeting rooms in the north-west: Menjangan Dynasty Resort, Pejarakan
  • Take the whole place, up to 20: Alamanda Lovina Resort, Lovina
  • A house for a team of ten: Villa Lovina Hill Paradise, above central Lovina
  • Highlands: Munduk Tentrem (amphitheatre for 50 seated) and Handara Golf & Resort, Pancasari
  • Getting there: about three hours by road from the airport, so book group transfers
  • Season: the dry months, roughly April to October, for anything outdoors
  • Prices: none here, because each venue quotes by dates, headcount and package

Three Reasons to Take a Team North

The distance keeps the team together. People do not drop in for an afternoon and leave. A team that makes the drive is there for the whole programme, and the evening is spent together.

The mornings are usable. The sea off Lovina is usually flat at dawn, when the dolphin boats go out. A session can start after breakfast with the day's outing already done.

Beach and mountain are an hour apart. The coast is warm, and the highlands around Munduk and Pancasari are cool enough for a jacket in the evening. A three-day programme can use both.

Choose the Format First, Then the Venue

The format of the retreat decides which kind of venue you need.

A conference-style offsite has a plenary room, breakouts, a projector and set meal times. It needs a resort with meeting rooms and an events team. Puri Bagus Lovina and Menjangan Dynasty Resort both publish these.

A working retreat is a small team at a long table, with workshops in the garden. It suits a whole-property booking, either a small resort taken in full or a large villa.

A wellness-led offsite puts yoga at dawn and a massage around the workshops. Yoga retreats in north Bali lists the venues that host outside groups and teachers.

Each of the six venues below is described from its own page or an official listing, and quoted in its own words.

Two Resorts With Meeting Rooms

Puri Bagus Lovina

Setting: A beachfront resort at Pemaron, at the Singaraja end of Lovina.

What it offers, in its own words: a Maharani Pavilion and an Executive Meeting Room "designed to accommodate between 40-100 participants". Both are "equipped with modern audiovisual technology and supported by professional event planning services".

The pavilion is for "small-scale meetings, seminars, or conferences". The meeting room is for "intimate gatherings or breakout sessions".

Its retreat inquiry form lists:

  • Meeting types: corporate, executive, training and team-building
  • Room layouts: from boardroom and U-shape to classroom and theatre
  • Meeting formats: half-day, full-day, half-board and full-board
  • Catering: coffee breaks, buffets and a barbecue
  • Diets: vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free requests
  • Outings: a request line for local culture and activity tours

For an evening, the resort has an outdoor stage it offers for traditional Balinese performances.

What to know: the same page markets its venues for technical training and education programmes run by Indonesian government agencies. Ask about your dates early. The resort's yoga and group retreat side is covered in yoga retreats in north Bali.

Contact: Wedding & Event page (meetings tab) · Map · Instagram: puribaguslovina

Best for: a plenary-and-breakouts offsite with everyone sleeping at the venue.

Menjangan Dynasty Resort

Setting: A beach glamping resort on Banyuwedang Bay at Pejarakan, in the north-west near West Bali National Park.

What it offers, in its own words: "small meeting rooms for intimate gatherings, medium-sized spaces for workshops and seminars". It adds "larger combined rooms ideal for conferences, exhibitions, and social events".

Its meeting packages "typically include complimentary Wi-Fi, audio-visual equipment (such as projectors, screens, microphones, and speakers), whiteboards, flip charts, and basic stationery". The kitchen does coffee breaks, buffets and custom menus, with special diets on advance notice.

An Events Team handles the booking, set-up and technical needs. Group rates apply when rooms are booked with the event space. Venues include the Prema Beach Garden, the Pasir Putih Beach Club and the Wantilan Multi-Function Room.

What to know: it is well west of Lovina, so the team stays put. The reef at Menjangan is the obvious day out.

Contact: Venues & spaces · Map

Best for: a residential offsite with a dive or snorkel day built in.

Two Venues a Team Can Have to Itself

Alamanda Lovina Resort

Setting: A boutique resort on the Lovina coast, with twelve rooms, two pools and a yoga shala.

What it offers, in its own words: "Alamanda can be booked in full" for up to 20 participants. The booking covers "12 rooms, the Shala, both pools, the treatment space and the kitchen". It comes with "full-board menus built with you" and on-site coordination.

Groups "eat together at one long table". Plant-based, gluten-free and Ayurvedic-leaning menus are, in its words, "normal here rather than a special request". The shala holds 24 mats.

What to know: it is set up for retreats, with the shala as its group space, so ask where a projector session would go.

Contact: Host your retreat · Map

Best for: a team of up to twenty that wants the place to itself.

Villa Lovina Hill Paradise

Setting: A private villa on a hillside minutes from central Lovina, with sea and mountain views. It is one of Palm Living's villas.

Villa Lovina Hill Paradise on its terraced hillside, a two-storey house above a long infinity pool, lawns and a gazebo Villa Lovina Hill Paradise, the villa for ten described here. Photo: Palm Living.

What it offers, from its listing: five en-suite bedrooms for ten guests. The listing calls the house "perfect for a family reunion, a high-end corporate retreat, or a friend getaway". It names these facilities:

  • a private infinity pool with a jacuzzi
  • a spa corner
  • a gym area
  • a fully equipped kitchen
  • "a beautiful formal indoor or outdoor dining area for ten"

Daily breakfast, staff service and free Wi-Fi are included.

What to know: a villa has house staff, with no events team, AV kit or meeting room. Bring your own screen, and see the listing for current rates. Larger houses, and what to ask an owner before a group booking, are in event villas in north Bali.

Contact: Listing · Map

Best for: a leadership team of ten on a strategy week.

Two Highland Venues: An Amphitheatre and a Golf Resort

Munduk Tentrem

Setting: A mountain retreat at Gobleg, near Munduk, "overlooking mountains shrouded in morning mist and natural rainforest".

What it offers, in its own words: an amphitheatre for "an art performance, corporate events, or private function". It "can accommodate 50 people (seated)", with "a beautifully styled raised stage" and the hills behind it.

Its experiences run from a cooking class and an organic farm to jungle trekking and waterfall treks. Tree planting is on the list too, a team afternoon that leaves something behind.

Contact: munduktentrem.com · Map · Instagram: munduktentremresort

Best for: a group of up to fifty that wants a session outdoors in cool air. The area is covered in the Munduk guide.

Handara Golf & Resort

Setting: Pancasari, on the Singaraja to Denpasar road in the highlands.

What its official listing says: the Buleleng tourism office listing describes a par 72 golf course with views of the mountain and Lake Buyan. The course is at 1,142 metres above sea level, with an average temperature of 14 to 20 degrees Celsius.

The listing notes Wi-Fi in all areas and a heater in every room. It adds massage and karaoke in the evening, and "meeting rooms are also available".

What to know: the listing is the source used here, so ask the resort directly for current meeting capacities. The split gate at its entrance has its own guide, the Handara Gate.

Contact: Map

Best for: a golf day with a meeting either side of it.

Team Days Out: Dolphins, Reefs, Waterfalls, Cooking and Golf

The north has the outings a team remembers, and many start early.

Dolphins surfacing at sunrise off Lovina with a watch boat behind Calm dry-season dawn on the Lovina dolphin water. Photo: Michelle Maria / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)

Practical Notes: Transfers, Food, Wi-Fi and the Calendar

Transfers: book group transport from the airport, so people do not have to find their own way. Ask the venue whether it arranges group transfers. Getting to north Bali sets out the routes. Private drivers in north Bali covers hiring a car and driver for the week.

Food: both meeting resorts take special diets on notice, and Alamanda builds menus with the organiser. Send dietary needs with the rooming list.

Connection: Menjangan Dynasty's packages include Wi-Fi, and Handara's listing says Wi-Fi covers all areas. The villa listing includes it too. For video calls or a live session, ask for a test before you sign.

Calendar: on Nyepi the whole island stops for a day, airport included. Nyepi explained has the detail. Balinese ceremony days can affect staff and roads, so ask the venue what falls in your window.

Season: the dry months, roughly April to October, suit outdoor sessions and boat trips. When to visit north Bali has the pattern.

Five Questions to Ask Any Venue Before You Sign

  • How many people can the meeting space seat in our layout, and what AV comes with it?
  • Can we have the space for the whole stay, or only by the half day?
  • Is there a quiet room for breakouts or calls?
  • Who from the events team is on site each day?
  • What happens to outdoor sessions if it rains?

FAQ

Is north Bali good for a corporate retreat? For a team that wants to focus, yes. It is about three hours from the airport, which keeps the group together once it arrives. It has resorts with meeting rooms, whole-property buyouts and villas for ten, with dolphins, reefs and waterfalls for the days out.

Which north Bali resorts have meeting rooms? Puri Bagus Lovina at Pemaron has a pavilion and an executive meeting room for 40 to 100 participants with audio-visual equipment. Menjangan Dynasty Resort at Pejarakan has small, medium and combined meeting rooms with Wi-Fi and AV. Handara Golf & Resort at Pancasari lists meeting rooms in its official tourism listing.

Can we book a whole resort for our team? Alamanda Lovina Resort can be booked in full for up to twenty participants, with its rooms, shala, pools and kitchen. For ten, Villa Lovina Hill Paradise is a private five-bedroom house whose listing names corporate retreats among its uses.

How do we get a team from the airport to Lovina? Book group transfers in advance. The drive is about three hours, and the routes are in the getting to north Bali guide. Ask the venue whether it arranges them, or hire cars and drivers for the group.

What team-building activities are there in north Bali? Dawn dolphin trips from Lovina, snorkelling and diving at Menjangan and Pemuteran, waterfall walks, cooking classes, golf at Handara, and at Munduk Tentrem, tree planting and farm tours.

When is the best time for a corporate retreat in north Bali? The dry months, roughly April to October, for outdoor sessions and boat trips. Check the date of Nyepi, when the island closes for a day.

Sources

Read next: event villas in north Bali, yoga retreats in north Bali and things to do in north Bali.

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