Located less than an hour’s drive from Auckland’s CBD and airports, a picturesque rural retreat is promoting itself as the perfect destination for small conferences and corporate team-building events – and it’s offering a special booking incentive.
Cliffside, a glamping venue situated on the picturesque clifftops of Karioitahi beach near Castaways Resort on the North Island’s west coast, southwest of Auckland’s CBD, offers a retreat-like experience.
Jasmine Shine, Cliffside’s General Manager, co-owns the venue with her sister Serena Shine. Together, the duo lead Cliffside as a one-of-a-kind destination for premium off-sites, retreats, and events in New Zealand.
“We do all the planning and cooking while you’re on-site,” Jasmine said at MEETINGS 2026 in Auckland. Cliffside is ideal for two-day off-sites for teams of up to 80, and it’s flexible.
“It’s exclusive when booked – so you will not come across any other groups on your stay,” Jasmine said.
At MEETINGS 2026, Jasmine announced an exclusive booking incentive: NZ$1500 off a company’s next offsite for the first five Expo bookings.
“This limited offer is designed for organisations ready to secure a premium, high-impact experience while gaining immediate value from early commitment,” she said.
Jasmine drives operations and guest experience, ensuring seamless delivery and consistently high-impact outcomes for every client engagement.
Cliffside is a one-of-a-kind, purpose-built offsite destination which Jasmine says is designed “to fundamentally change how organisations experience strategy, leadership, and team performance time.
“We are not a venue in the traditional sense—we are an integrated environment where accommodation, conferencing, hospitality, and natural setting operate as a single system designed to produce measurable outcomes.”
In a market saturated with hotels and event spaces, Cliffside sees itself as offering a clear point of difference: an offsite destination built end-to-end for business impact, not event logistics.
“Every element of the experience is intentionally designed to move teams from operational noise into clarity, alignment, and decisive action.”
Jasmine explains: “This is not a traditional venue. Cliffside is intentionally designed to remove friction and complexity, allowing teams to step out of day-to-day noise and into an environment where clarity, alignment, and meaningful progress naturally occur. Whether hosting strategy sessions, leadership retreats, or multi-day off-sites, every detail is structured to support focus, connection, and real outcomes.”
Cliffside caters to those who expect more from their off-sites—more focus, more clarity, and a greater return on time invested.
Edited by: Peter Needham at MEETINGS 2026 in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland – © 2026.
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About the Author.
With more than 35 years in travel journalism, Peter Needham has filed stories from Fleet Street to Fiji, and just about everywhere in between. As Managing Editor (Australasia) for Global Travel Media, he shapes industry coverage with the steady hand of someone who’s seen fashions come and go and knows what lasts.
Since going freelance in 1993, his byline has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Financial Review, Reader’s Digest and Qantas’ inflight magazines. He edited Inside Tourism for seven years, wrote the long-running Travel Tales column for Vacations & Travel, and even crafted copy for Tourism Australia ahead of the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
A Reuters, Guardian and AAP veteran, Peter has travelled widely from South American backpacking trails to a Saudi military hospital, gathering stories the old-fashioned way: by being there.
