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Build Teams at Crieff Hydro this Summer

Gather up your colleagues and give them a day that catapults them right out of the ordinary. Here at Crieff Hydro we have put together a number of different packages for you and your colleagues to enjoy on a well deserved day away from the office! It could be thinking caps on in the morning as you get down to business in one of our flexible, newly refurbished function spaces, then safety helmets on in the afternoon, as you enjoy your choice of one of our tremendous activities.

summer team building at crieff hydro

Pick from:

Hydro Challenge – six tests of motivation, teamwork and general mettle, from “bomb” diffusion to sky archery hits (think clay pigeon shooting but with foam disks and arrows)

Team Special Ops – codename: serious fun for 12-200 people. Your team will have to navigate, shoot (rifles and lasers), and drive off-road to complete their mission

Active Minds Challenge – from the perfectly puzzling to the positively perplexing, tailor your challenge (or let us do it for you) from a menu of 30 individual challenges. Designed to send your grey matter into overdrive (and be jolly good fun too)

Mini Highland Games – a classic choice. Nothing says “Scotland” like a man in a skirt flinging a big log. We can’t say the same for haggis hurling or sumo suits – but whatever you choose, it’s a great way to get teams working together

All of this from just £65.00 per person throughout May – September.

You’ll enjoy:

  • Arrival tea, coffee and bacon (or vegetarian) roll
  • Morning meeting room complete with free Wi-Fi, projector, screen and stationery, mineral water, cordials, confectionary and fresh fruit
  • 2 course lunch
  • Afternoon of activities

Other add-ons to your team-building day include:

  • Enjoy an evening BBQ and overnight stay from only £99

Choose to round off your day with a BBQ and an overnight stay in one of our hotel rooms. That way, you’ll enjoy a full Scottish breakfast the next morning, as well as full access to our leisure pool and gym.

  • Add an evening BBQ from just £15 per person

When the working day is done, an evening BBQ is the ideal time for your guests to unwind and talk over the day’s events. Let our chefs put together a mouthwatering BBQ to satisfy hungry delegates before they head home.

  • We can even pick you up from your office…

Just an hour from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee, we’re centrally located and easy to reach. And if you’d like us to arrange transport from the local train or bus station, or even from your office, just let us know and we’ll get on the case.

For more information our our summer team-building offer please visit: http://www.crieffhydro.com/meetings-and-events/build-teams.aspx

Or to enquire further please fill out the form at the following link http://www.crieffhydro.com/meetings-and-events/corporate-enquiries.aspx

Or to speak to someone from our Meetings and Events team call 01764 651 680.

 

Have you Experienced a Crieff Hydro Christmas Party Night?

I can say with absolute certainty that the Christmas Party Night packages, offered by Crieff Hydro, are beyond anything else offered in Scotland.

The benefits of holding your Christmas party with us are endless. Where else would you be able to get overnight accommodation in a four star hotel, live music, a 4 course festive dinner (with wine), access to amazing hotel facilities and a delicious Scottish breakfast in the morning?

Crieff Hydro offer packages starting from £59.95 (this includes your accommodation!) and we can host events for up to 400 people. This is unbelievable value and having your party based at our hotel allows everyone to get ready for the big night in complete luxury. Ladies can feel properly pampered, with our spa, hair and beauty teams ready to style the perfect party look and put them in the mood for celebrating.

Crieff Hydro Party Nights

Four – star fun from just £59.95 a night

All guests have the choice of either a double or twin room within the stunning Crieff Hydro Hotel.

Crieff Hydro are accepting bookings for the 6th, 13th, 20th and 21st December and expect each event night to be hugely popular!

Your Crieff Hydro Party Night package would include:

  • A glass of fizz on arrival
  • 4 course festive dinner (including half a bottle of wine)
  • Live music (and dancing ‘til late)
  • Late night coffee and mince pies
  • A night in a twin or double room
  • Full Scottish breakfast
  • Access to hotel leisure facilities

To make your booking click here or call 01764 651 680

Surviving a Business Dinner

Planning to whisk a client or prospective business contact away for a corporate dinner? No idea how to behave? Worried you might blow it? Fear not, we have a team of meeting and events experts here at Crieff Hydro who have seen it all. Here are their tips for surviving the strangest type of meeting; the intimate corporate dinner.

Watch what you eat and drink

Business and Corporate Dining

Whether you want to impress clients, engage in team-building activites or celebrate a success, Crieff Hydro is perfect for all your corporate events.

Business dinners are hard enough without having to worry about getting spinach in your teeth, negotiating a lobster or eating spaghetti elegantly, so order wisely. Food can be a great ice-breaker and a talking point as well, so it’s always a good idea to swot up a little on the restaurant you’re going to.

You should feel relaxed, so feel free to have a few drinks if you like. But keep a clear head and don’t be afraid to hold back on the booze if you start to feel a little too tipsy.

The events team at Crieff Hydro are more than happy to work with you to create a bespoke menu for your corporate dinner, based on your guests’ preferences.

Ask questions

If you’re nervous, listen more than you speak. People love to talk about themselves and feel like they are the most fascinating person in the world. Asking leading questions and doing lots of nodding will endear you to your dinner guests and you’ll probably find out a lot of very useful information about them!

Silence is golden

If the purpose of the meeting is to wrangle information out of somebody, don’t blow it by talking too much at key moments. Say nothing and allow the other person to rush to fill the awkward silence, no doubt revealing too much or back-peddling on what they’ve just offered you.

Don’t talk shop the whole time

It’s so true: people buy from people. The most savvy networkers who seem to charm everyone they meet never start any business conversation talking about business. They’ll spend 70% of the meeting asking about the other person’s family, talking about the weather or relaying a funny anecdote they’ve stashed up their sleeve. They make other people feel comfortable and find common ground before they even think of broaching the subject of work.

Nina Zagat — who co-founded the Zagat Survey restaurant guides and is an expert in dining with business prospects— thinks you should think of a business dinner like a sandwich: start with non-business chit chat, briefly go over the business issues you need to cover and finish with light conversation again. She never talks shop over dessert.

If you’ve taken your party to Crieff Hydro, it’s an excellent way to get to know them in a neutral environment that’s slightly removed from the corporate environment you’ve come from, so make the most of it.

Crieff Hydro Activities- Free and Under £5

Here at Crieff Hydro we have activities to suit all ages as well budgets. We have many activities onsite that are free and under £5!! Come along and take full advantage of these amazing offers. We have listed all these activities below, with a short description of what you need to bring along with you to each activity.

Free Activities:

ADVENTURE PLAY AREA Bags of energy

BIG COUNTRY Boundless energy, team spirit

CHILDREN’S POOL Suits, armbands, beach balls – all things aqua-funtastic

CINEMA BYO popcorn, programme from reception

SOFT PLAY Tiny sense of adventure

SWIMMING Swimsuits, rubber rings, water wings – just these things

FITNESS INDUCTIONS Gym gear and trainers, an open mind

FREE FITNESS PROGRAMMES Gym gear and trainers, dogged determination

GIANT CHESS Kasparov’s brain, giant pieces outside the Brassiere

WOODLAND WALKS Walking shoes, love of all things peaceful

THE GALLERY Some £1 coins for table games, ability to ‘hang out’

Under £5: BASKETBALL Gym kit and trainers (ball hire from Melville Hall) £4 Court Hire

BOUNCY CASTLE General appreciation for jumping £2 -15mins

BOWLS Outdoor shoes (bowling set hire from Melville Hall) £2.50 (set of four)

CRAZY GOLF Crazy disposition (club and ball hire from the Activity Centre) £2.50pp

CROQUET Good mallet control (croquet set hire from Melville Hall) £5 per set

DISC GOLF Frisbee skills (kit from the Activity Centre) £3pp

NEW AGE BOWLS Softer, smaller bowls (for hire from Melville Hall) £3.50pp

PONY RIDES (UNDER 5s) Pony-friendly little one, camera to capture the moment £5pp

POOL TABLE BYO rules (cues, balls and chalk all supplied at the Leisure Club) £1pp

PUTTING Good short shot (club hire from Melville Hall) £1pp

RACQUET BALL Gym kit and trainers (racquet and jumbo ball hire from Melville Hall) £4

WATER PEDLERZ Pedal power and sea legs £5pp (5 mins, age 3+)

WATER WALKERZ Bare feet and gritty determination £5pp (5 mins, age 6+) DRIVING RANGE BYO clubs, or hire them from the Clubhouse £3.50pp

Water Walkers at Crieff Hydro

The human hamster ball on water! Step inside a giant floating ball and see how long you can stand up! From ages 6 and upwards!

For more information on Crieff, and all of our fun activities please visit our website.

 

Meet, Eat and Sleep at Crieff Hydro this Autumn

Book your corporate meeting with Crieff Hydro this Autumn

Not only is Crieff Hydro Hotel the perfect location for a quiet luxury getaway, it’s also a great venue for corporate meetings, functions and team-building activities.

Flexibility is everything with our newly refurbished meeting rooms and resort team building options. Looking to hold a meeting and incentivise staff with quirky team building fun? Book for Autumn and enjoy our 24 hour delegate rate and let Crieff Hydro meet your needs from only £135pp.

All bookings include:

-          4-Star accommodation

-          Full Scottish Breakfast

-          Two refreshment breaks

-          Two-course lunch

-          Meeting room, screen, flipcharts, stationery

-          Three-course dinner

Take advantage of our on-site corporate activities too, including laser quest and low ropes from only £28 per person. A clever way to get your team thinking big.

Book now to get a great deal on high quality professional meeting solutions or call us on 01764 651 680 for more information.

Corporate team building

Corporate team building

Thinking caps off; safety helmets and golfing caps on. Give your delegates a break from meetings with a teambuilding day to remember. (They’ll thank you for it.)

We can arrange any of these activities for you – they’re all right here on the Crieff Hydro estate. So you can go straight from a three course lunch to the Vertigo high ropes… if you dare.

Golf Team Building
18-hole golf course and short-hole pitch and putt (equipment hire available).
more info

Hydro challenge
Teams race the clock to complete various outdoor challenges. Also includes quad biking, high ropes and archery.
more info

It’s a knockout
Tackle the climbing wall, gladiator duel, bungee run, human table football and tug of war.
more info

Laser quest
Paintball without the pain!
more info

Mini highland games
Toss the caber, throw the welly, archery, tug of war, disc golf, pole jousting, sumo wrestling and shot putting.
more info

Off-road driving team building
Land Rover fun with delegates at the wheel. You can even try it blindfolded. (Brave passengers welcome.)
more info

Quad biking
Negotiate our all-terrain off-road track, led by a qualified instructor.
more info

Segways
Self-balanced two wheel electronic vehicles. Outrageously good fun.
more info

Vertigo high ropes
Climbing wall, balance beam, Jacob’s ladder and ‘Leap of Faith’. All takes place 50 feet up.
more info

Watersports
Wakeboarding, waterskiing and giant inflatables. Soakings to be expected.
more info

Woodland low ropes
Ten stages of rope obstacles set a few feet off the ground. Ends with a mini zip line.
more info

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