Planning team building in Galway comes down to three decisions: how long (a day, one night or two), how many people, and whether you want one venue to run everything or you will stitch a hotel, a meeting room, a restaurant and an activity provider together yourself. Get those three settled and the rest of this guide fills itself in.
On length: a day out of the office suits one clear objective and a team that lives within an hour of the venue. One night is the format most Irish companies actually book, because the evening — dinner, the bar, the nonsense after — is where a team relaxes. Two nights is for the offsite with real work in it: a strategy day, a planning day, and a proper night in between.
On numbers: most Galway team-building groups run from 10 to 40. Below 8 the group activities stop working and you are better off with a good dinner; above 50 you are into hotel-ballroom territory. Ballinderry Park is built for the middle: 8 to 50 people, and the whole estate is yours for the duration — no other guests, no other company in the next room.
On logistics: this is the decision that quietly decides your budget. A day that runs across three suppliers costs you a coach, two lots of transfer time and a week of emails. One estate that does the room, the beds, the food and the activities costs you one phone call — and, on the numbers below, usually less money.