Corporate away days can be difficult to plan at the best of times – with the plethora of family-friendly and romantic hotels in London often meaning that companies struggle to find the right setting within the city.
As a top accommodation option near Hyde Park London, here at the Hyde Park Grand London in Hyde Park, we seek to tick every box for our guests – combining intimate spaces and romantic settings with inspiring surroundings, large open plan event rooms, and all the facilities your delegates need as they settle in for an away day.
Here’s everything we encourage you to think about when planning a corporate away day.
Finding a hotel with enough rooms
First thing’s first, you need to find a hotel with enough rooms for all of your delegates to stay on site – or at least enough space for those who want and need to stay on site. We generally recommend that companies looking to organise an away day in a London hotel block all the rooms they might need, and then hand them out internally to their attendees or delegates.
If you are not planning on having your team stay onsite, make sure you finish with enough time for them to get home safely.
Booking dinner out
Staying onsite or not, booking a meal at the end of your away day will mark a definitive end to the corporate arrangements and will give your team a chance to blow off steam and enjoy some time together. There are a wide selection of restaurants near Hyde Park that offer all sorts of cuisine and set menu options, giving you plenty of choice without having to travel very far.
Think about the right setting
Most hotels and event venues in London have a selection of spaces available for hire, some of which facilitate a more formal sit-down event, while others are open plan and enable you to create and design your away day in whichever way works for you.
Finding the right setting for your team means making a plan in advance of how you want the day to run – factoring in breaks and making sure that there is plenty of space for all the activities and tasks you have planned.
Share the plan in advance
While it is not necessary to share a complete breakdown and itinerary of the day from start to finish (after all, you will want to keep some activities a surprise for your team), sharing a loose plan in advance will help your team to sort out their travel arrangements and make any logistical plans they need to with plenty of time to spare.
Knowing what they are facing on your corporate away day will also help to inform outfits and other details – all of which will contribute towards a successful and smooth-running day.
For more information on our corporate away day packages, reach out to our inhouse events team directly.