Your team’s next business retreat doesn’t have to take place in a fluorescent-lit conference room with a bad wifi password. When sessions wrap for the day, you can step outside onto one of the most-walked oceanfront footpaths in New England. That shift changes how a team thinks, and choosing the right spot makes it possible.
The Beachmere Inn has hosted group meetings and retreats for more than eight decades along Marginal Way in Ogunquit, Maine. We’re one of the few hotels on Marginal Way in Ogunquit with full meeting infrastructure: configurable rooms, audiovisual equipment, catering, and enough guest rooms to house your whole small to medium-sized group.
Book directly with our meetings team and we coordinate the details from setup through the last dinner.
A Business Retreat Location Built for Small and Medium Groups
Our meeting spaces run from a formal boardroom to breakout rooms that reconfigure for different group sizes. Standard audiovisual equipment, data port connections and complimentary wifi. Our Executive Chef handles catering from working lunches and snack breaks through sit-down group dinners, and the menus change with the season.
The Ocean View Lawn moves everything outside when the weather is right. The Rotunda, a fire pit-equipped outdoor space with bistro lighting, works well for a cocktail hour or an informal close to a long day.
Guest rooms in the Victorian Building, Beachmere South and Beachmere West all have ocean views, most with private balconies or terraces and kitchenettes. Several rooms have gas fireplaces. Keeping your group on-site streamlines logistics and sustains the energy a productive day builds.
Business Retreat Ideas For Your Time In Ogunquit
The town gives your team real options once the agenda clears. Ogunquit is walkable and almost everything worth doing is within 15 minutes of the Beachmere Inn.
- Marginal Way: The 1.25-mile oceanfront footpath begins at our back lawn. Walk it as a group before the morning session or after dinner. It ends at Perkins Cove.
- Perkins Cove: About 15 minutes on foot, the harbor has seafood restaurants, galleries and what’s reportedly the only double-leaf drawbridge in the United States. Take the group for a lobster dinner at the water’s edge.
- Ogunquit Playhouse: Professional theater talent has taken the Playhouse stage since 1933. Block tickets for a group evening out instead of another night at a hotel bar.
- Our spa: The spa level in Beachmere West has a salt-water hot tub, sauna, massage rooms and an exercise room. Schedule individual massages or a spa afternoon between sessions.
- Cape Neddick Country Club: Our guests have membership privileges at Cape Neddick Country Club, about 10 minutes south in York, Maine. A round of golf pairs well with dinner back at our Blue Bistro.
- Lobster Dinners: During the summer, we host weekly lobster specials on-site. If the dates line up, it’s the simplest group dinner you’ll plan all trip.
Your Coworkers Will Thank You
For teams searching for the best hotel in Ogunquit for a working retreat, the Beachmere Inn brings together dedicated meeting space, oceanfront accommodations and a fully walkable village. Ogunquit sits about 70 miles north of Boston and 25 miles south of Portland. Drive in, park once and your group has the town on foot for the rest of the stay.
We specialize in small to medium groups. Email our meetings team at [email protected] or call 207-646-2021 to plan your business retreat. Browse our accommodations and meetings page to see what fits your group and your budget.