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Sunrise yoga
On the deck as the light comes up, for whoever is awake. Everyone else has the beach to themselves.
For the team that needs a few days out of the office without a five-star invoice, and for anyone with something to celebrate — a house on the Arabian Sea with a hall below, six suites above, and one sunset a day that nobody wants to miss.
Everyone knows the usual offsite. A city hotel, a ballroom with no windows, a buffet at one, a “team-building activity” at four, and the feeling by Friday that you never left the office — you just moved it.
Here the meeting room is downstairs and the sea is outside the door. You work in the morning while you are sharp. In the afternoon people drift to the beach, the verandah, a line at the fishing spot. At six everyone ends up on the gallery for the sunset without being told to. Dinner, music, a party in the hall if you want one. Then upstairs to sleep, with the surf in the window.
The real work of an offsite happens in those hours between sessions — the walk on the sand where two teams finally understand each other, the late conversation after dinner. We just give you a place where those hours are easy.
A shape we suggest — every team bends it to its own agenda.
The best decisions of the week are made on the walk back from the beach.— SeaSwara House
Big resorts price an offsite like a conference: per head, per session, per coffee break, with the sea view as a line item. We are a small house, and we price like one. One quote for the rooms, the hall and the food — written to your headcount and your budget, with nothing added at the end.
Because we host one group at a time, the house is yours for those days: no other company’s lanyards in the corridor, no wedding band competing with your keynote.
And we will be honest about size. The six suites suit a leadership team, a board, or a small company. For a bigger group, the rest of the team stays in hotels in Padubidri, Kaup and Udupi nearby and comes to the sea for the days — we will help arrange rooms and transport.
A fortieth your friends will drive from Bengaluru for. A parents’ anniversary with three generations around one long table. A college reunion twenty years on. A small party that deserves more than a restaurant’s back room.
The Casuarina Hall takes up to about a hundred and fifty, the beach is right in front for the photographs, the kitchen cooks, and the six suites mean the people who matter most can stay the night instead of driving home. Tell us the occasion and the number of people and we will plan the evening around it.
November to February is wedding season on this coast, and half of Bengaluru, Mumbai and the Gulf flies into Mangaluru for one. The halls are in Udupi and Mangaluru; the hotels in town fill up and are much of a muchness.
Stay here instead — thirty-five minutes from Udupi, forty from the airport — and the days between ceremonies become a holiday: the beach in the morning, a long lunch, the sunset, and a quiet room to come back to after a loud night. Families often book the whole house. Write to us early; the season goes fast.
Yes. Downstairs there is the Casuarina Hall for up to about 150 and the Chart Room for a board or a small team; upstairs, six suites. The kitchen cooks every meal, the sea gallery is there for sunset, and we host one group at a time.
We quote each retreat to its headcount and days — rooms, hall and food in one written quote, with nothing added at the end. It is priced like a small house, not a convention hotel. Send us your dates and numbers on WhatsApp.
Yes. Many groups put their leadership in the suites and the rest of the team in hotels in Padubidri, Kaup or Udupi nearby, then spend the days here. We will help arrange rooms and transport.
Fly into Mangaluru (IXE) — about an hour from Bengaluru, ninety minutes from Mumbai, with direct flights from the Gulf. The house is 32 km and about 40 minutes north of the airport. Padubidri railway station is five minutes away.
Yes — in the Casuarina Hall for up to about 150, or as a private dinner in the sea gallery. The kitchen cooks, the six suites let the closest guests stay the night, and we plan the evening around your occasion.
Please do — we are 35 minutes from Udupi and 40 from Mangaluru airport, and a quiet sea-facing room is a good place to recover between ceremonies. Families often book the whole house. November to February fills early, so write to us soon.
Tell us the dates, how many of you there are and what you want the days to feel like. We come back with a plan and one honest quote.
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