Recharge your business this year with a corporate retreat at the Royal Mail Hotel. An office getaway to the hotel combined with fresh, creative food, an award-winning wine list and the Grampians National Park, is sure to invigorate your team.
Located three hours west of Melbourne, the Royal Mail Hotel offers a premier regional escape with some of Victoria’s best views and hikes within reach. Fresh air and a restful setting, good food and wine, interactions with wildlife and team building exercises, are just some of the ways to re-energise your team. The hotel is the perfect place to break routine and encourage creative thinking and positivity.
The Royal Mail Hotel has 40 rooms onsite, varying in facilities and budgets. This allows the whole team to stay together to continue the good vibes throughout the duration of your stay. The hotel also has an onsite events coordinator, who is excited to help you make your corporate retreat one to remember.
Combine business with leisure and let the fresh ideas, perspective and engagement, roll out onto the planning whiteboard. Below is a list of what the Royal Mail Hotel can offer your team.
Corporate Event Spaces
The hotel has a range of flexible event spaces available for different team sizes and budgets.
Mount Sturgeon Homestead
Built in the 1840s, the Homestead offers a fully equipped house, manicured lawns and gardens, light-filled rooms and a sunny balcony with the best view of Mount Sturgeon on the Royal Mail properties. The magnificent grandeur and long history of the Homestead is sure to inspire some big ideas. For more information on the Homestead, click here.
Mount Sturgeon Woolshed
The fully restored Mount Sturgeon Woolshed provides a large space, for large gatherings. The venue offers a beautiful rustic structure, perfect for parties, product launches, art and music events. For more information on the Woolshed, click here.
Annexe Lounge Meeting Room
Available for up to 20 guests, this room is located next to the Parker Street Project restaurant and courtyard. It features a fire place, perfect for winter retreats. For more information on the Annexe, click here.
Wine Cellar
Sit amongst the impressive 28,000 bottle wine cellar, including one of the largest collections of Bordeaux and Burgundy outside of France. This space can be transformed into a private dining space or used for product launches, meetings and award ceremonies. For more information on the Wine Cellar, click here.
Dining Options
The Royal Mail Hotel is renowned for its food and wine. Up to 80% of produce used in the restaurants is grown onsite at the hotel’s 1.2-hectare organic kitchen garden. This garden is the largest working restaurant kitchen garden in Australia. The menus at both restaurants are driven by Executive Chef Robin Wickens, known for his trademark creativity, innovation and devotion to sustainability.
Our events coordinator is happy to collate a food and beverage package suited to your requirements and budget.
Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel
This stunning restaurant is the signature dining experience at the Royal Mail Hotel. The restaurant offers a multi-course degustation, optional wine match, floor to ceiling views of Mount Sturgeon and a dining room with a beautiful ambiance. A private room within the restaurant seats 14. A dinner here will leave the team relaxed, inspired and full to the brim. For more information on Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, click here.
Parker Street Project
Parker Street Project is the more casual dining experience at the Royal Mail Hotel, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner services. Wrapped up brainstorming early? Visit the wine bar for a drink and charcuterie board. For more information on Parker Street Project, click here.
Mount Sturgeon Homestead and Woolshed Catering
If your team is staying at the Homestead or using the Woolshed, catering at each venue is available. Also created by Robin Wickens, the set menu upholds the Royal Mail Hotel standard and quality.
Team Building Exercises
Your team will be stress-free and spirits will be high– it’s the perfect time to add some fun into the program. Below is a list of team building exercises available at the hotel and within the region:
- Royal Mail Hotel Kitchen Garden tour
- Royal Mail Hotel Wine Cellar tasting and tour
- Wonderland Trail
- Native Wildlife Conservation tour
- Watercolour Painting Class with local artist, David Baker
- Grampians hikes and waterfalls
- Grampians National Park guided tour
- Mount Sturgeon Homestead lawn games including, croquet and bocce
- Wine tasting class with Royal Mail Hotel sommelier
- Kitchen Garden cocktail making class
- Hamilton Art Gallery tour
- Grampians Golf Course
- Western Victoria Winery tour
- Brambuk Cultural Centre tour
- Aboriginal rock art tour
Break routine, have fun and relax on your corporate retreat at the Royal Mail Hotel. Let’s start organising, contact us now for a quote: events@royalmailhotel.com.au
