How Saiyuen can be your corporate event solution:

A practical guide for event managers, HR managers, and training managers planning their next corporate offsite

To anyone who organizes in Hong Kong, if you’re tired of the same uninspiring conference room and a tired icebreaker activity, let us introduce you to Saiyuen: a camping and adventure park on Cheung Chau Island.

Saiyuen offers something drastically different. It is the solution you need, for the impact you want. Our products and services get your teams more engaged, thinking more creatively, and more aligned with your goals. Yes, all this can be found at Saiyuen, which is closer, more flexible, and more effective than most managers realise.

This guide is written for event managers, HR managers, and training managers who want to understand what Saiyuen offers, and how to use Saiyuen to run the most effective programme you can envision.

What Is Saiyuen? Why does it work for corporate groups?

Saiyuen sits on nearly half a million square feet on the southwestern coast of Cheung Chau, a short 35-minute ferry ride from Central. With waterfront views, this site is Hong Kong's premier outdoor adventure campground, as equipped for impactful corporate programming as it is for weekend fun.

Overview

Venue: Outdoor (open & covered) + indoor (air conditioned)

Capacity: Day programme: 8-800 pax (depending on programming)

Accommodations: Onsite

• Featured tents only: 175 max capacity room share
  • 36 single occupancy
  • 72 double occupancy
• Pitched tents only:
  • ~200 double occupancy

Food & Beverage: Flexible offerings

• Fully catered group meals
• Convenient lunch box options
• DIY BBQ with outdoor setup
• Traditional and wild cooking workshops over open fire

Language: Cantonese, English, Mandarin

Programming: In-house flexible + specialty sessions/themed learning upon request

Transportation:

• Accessible by public ferry from Central Pier #5 by or private boat charter

Other Vital Details:

• Licensed by HK SAR Home Affairs Department: HAD H6668
• HK$50M third-party liability insurance

Our Activity Portfolio: Matching Programmes to Learning Objectives

One of Saiyuen's strengths is the breadth of our activity portfolio. We’ve grouped our activity offerings into four main groups, which allows meeting and event planners to build one-day or multi-day agendas with real variety and deliberate learning arcs to keep participants interested while also achieving organisational objectives.

1. Signature Group Activities:

Saiyuen’s signature group activities are immersive experiences designed to forge team spirit and create lasting memories, far removed from typical office environments. Teams might find themselves working in unison to master the balance of a raft they built, collaborating in high-energy strategy challenges or working together to build a teepee. Each activity is carefully designed to emphasise communication, trust, and shared achievement, ensuring that participants return to work with a strengthened bond and a greater sense of purpose.

• Raft Building: This activity is a high-fun, low-stakes challenge that focuses on planning, synchronisation, balance, and trust. Like teepee building, raft building can be used as a metaphor for organisational structure, with the added element of water! Raft building is an excellent option for groups seeking a unique experience.
• Rush: Rush is a team-building challenge made up of a series of mini-games. Teams must work strategically to compete against each other to complete tasks and earn points. This activity enables communication, critical thinking and problem-solving, while fostering team collaboration and cohesion.
• Clash the Tribe: Teepee building is an experiential learning challenge that emphasises teamwork, decision-making, resource allocation, and communication. Building a teepee forces the group to function as a cohesive unit in order to create something functional and work towards achieving a shared goal.  

2. Physical and Adventure Activities:

High-Challenge Adventure Activities

These are your headline activities, the ones that create shared stories and push comfort zones. Lead by our team of certified instructors, these are perfect for setting the stage on conversations about resilience, or as a reward for high performing groups:

• Tree Top Canopy Walk & Zipline: The canopy walk builds self-confidence and tests comfort zones in a structured, progressive way. The canopy walk ends with the zipline, where participants will find themselves soaring gleefully through the air – the triumphant finale to a boundary-pushing challenge.
• Junior Abseiling & Bun Tower: These entry-level climbing activities are wonderfully suited to mixed-ability groups. Ideal for teams where inclusivity across fitness levels is a priority.
• Giant Ladder: The giant ladder is a team climb that encourages decision-making and teamwork while also challenging personal resilience. Teams must work together to help each other reach the top of the ladder.

Physical Group Fun Activities

These activities emphasise fun while presenting novel opportunities to practice communication, strategy, and problem solving! Throw in some competition, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for team building!

• Bubble Soccer: A high-energy, laughter-driven activity that strips away hierarchy instantly. Excellent for cross-functional teams who don't know each other well.
• Disc Golf & Barrier Archery Combat: Lower-intensity options that still require focus, strategy, and team coordination. Useful for balancing an agenda that also includes high-adrenaline elements.

3. Creator Workshops:

Arts & Culture Workshops

Sometimes, creativity can only start flowing when it is guided. Hands-on art activities challenge teams to think outside their usual frameworks. For managers who are trying to nurture outside-the-box thinking and innovation, or for managers who are seeking some zen moments for their team, arts-based workshops set the tone for a fresh canvas. A break in regular routine, creator moments also make a nice treat for teams.

• Arts & Craft Workshops: Choose from one of our structured creative sessions that can be themed to your organisation's values or current business priorities. Saiyuen currently offers a mosaic coaster workshop, a leaf print eco-bag workshop, and a wood-rubbing eco-bag workshop. Deciding on patterns, color combinations, and layouts exercises the same lateral thinking muscles needed in business innovation – these activities work well when paired with strategy and creative sessions.
• Music Workshop – make music in our African drum workshop. Play with rhythms to make the beat come alive. Playing with a group gives music a different feeling when you’re creating in real time. Creating music together fosters deep social bonding, and trust through synchronisation and shared purpose. 

Culinary Workshops

Get a taste for Cheung Chau’s culinary heritage through our cooking workshops. For meeting planners, these activities are a great option to both entertain and food your participants at the same time! Truly – the best part is that participants can immediately enjoy the benefits of their hard work! Moreover, these types of workshops often help to “level the playing field” by momentarily ignoring hierarchy, allowing team members with different skillsets to shine.

• Beggar's Wild Chicken & Bamboo Chicken: Groups cook a traditional dish without modern kitchen tools, while getting a quick lesson in local cultural culinary heritage. This activity is a masterclass in resourcefulness, delegation, and teamwork.
• Bubble Waffle Workshop & Ping An Bao Workshop: These are lighter, more social activities. For bubble waffles, small groups learn to make a delicious treat traditional charcoal grills. For ping an bao, small groups learn about the historical relevancy of this dish, while trying to make their own. These activities work well after some more intense activities, as a reward, or as a day one icebreaker.
• Bushcraft Workshop: This activity adds elements of resourcefulness and resilience. Here, participants can make their own meals from start to finish – including building the fire! Groups focus on problem solving and strategy, while also learning useful life skills of fire starting and water distillation. This activity can be done on its own, or in conjunction with Beggar’s Wild Chicken or Bamboo Chicken. Recommended for multi-day team building and/or rewards and incentives programming.

4. Specialty programming:

While we offer a few other standalone activities such as model boat racing, we are also proud to have a number of partners who can provide additional specialty and themed programming to support our customers’ educational or programmatic needs.

From stargazing to coasteering to pre-history to history, if you have a particular need, we can help you fill it. Just let us know!

Venue and MICE Capabilities: What Event Managers Need to Know

Saiyuen’s MICE infrastructure offers a variety of meeting configurations available across the site. With both indoor and outdoor options for gatherings, presentations, and breakout work, we can make it work for you. Whether it’s AV or catering requirements, our team can help you handle amenities and logistics coordination, making Saiyuen a genuine one-stop shop for your retreat/team building/strategy session/training requirements/you name it.

Of note, our architectural contrast — modern creative spaces set against traditional island heritage — gives event designers a genuinely flexible canvas. Imagine a morning keynote in a covered indoor space, break into outdoor challenge rotations through the afternoon, and close with a sunset BBQ overlooking the South China Sea.

How to Structure Your Day: A Sample Programme Framework

Here is an example of a tested and true agenda for a one-day programme:

Morning

• Ferry departure from Central Pier #5
• Welcome briefing and programme orientation on arrival
• Opening activity: Bubble Soccer or Barrier Archery Combat (energy and laughter, breaks down formality)
• Debrief and theme-setting for the day

Midday

• Outdoor BBQ lunch with unstructured networking time

Afternoon

• Team build challenge: Rush: a competitive point-based game that emphasises communication, problem solving, creativity, and results in greater group cohesion.
• Facilitated debrief — connecting the experience to workplace behaviours

Close

• Group reflection and commitment-setting session
• Ferry return to Central

… and this is just the beginning.

Ready to Plan Your Next Team Building Programme?

Saiyuen is one of the few venues in Hong Kong that genuinely delivers on the promise of team building — not just a fun day out, but a structured experience that changes how a group works together. For event managers who want a venue that makes their job easier, and training managers who need outcomes they can report back on, Saiyuen can be your answer.

Visit www.saiyuen.com to explore their group options, email biz@saiyuen.com or call +852-2981-1010 to speak with our team about the right programme for your group.