Two-day company convention in Sitges

Why Sitges for a company convention?

Sitges solves an equation few destinations manage: a beach, a lively old town and hotels with proper meeting rooms, about 40 minutes from Barcelona and the airport. The group gets a change of scene without spending half the day on the road, and the trip itself feels like a reward for the team.

Scale matters to the organiser too. Sitges is small enough to walk between the hotel, the marina and the centre, and well equipped enough to host groups of several hundred. That is why it works so well for sales conferences, start-of-year kick-offs and dealer meetings with an incentive element.

What you see here is an outline programme: the structure, timings and activities that have worked best for us in Sitges. We tailor it to your objective, group size and season in the proposal, which we send within 24 business hours.

ME Sitges Terramar as your base

We choose ME Sitges Terramar as the main venue for three practical reasons. First, the whole group sleeps in the same building: the hotel has 213 rooms, most of them with sea views. Second, the meetings centre is designed for conventions: 9 rooms, including a 400 m² Main Studio that divides into three Garden rooms and a 180 m² Vintage Studio for a fourth working group. Third, the setting: it is 50 metres from Terramar beach, at the quiet end of the promenade, with an eighth-floor rooftop that takes care of the sunset cocktail.

We know the building well. We have produced several editions of the Utopic New Year's Eve parties there, which gives us useful insight for your convention: build-up times, how each room sounds with music and how a large group moves around best.

How does the programme adapt to 80 or 250 people?

With 80 people, the plenary fits in a single Garden room or the Vintage Studio, the workshops spread across the smaller rooms and dinner can move outside the hotel, for example to the Mas Solers estate in the Garraf, where we organised the Fiberpachs convention.

With 250 people we use the full Main Studio for the plenary and divide it for the workshops, the afternoon activity runs in four or five smaller groups with staggered departures, and dinner stays at the hotel to keep transfers simple. Above that number we suggest Meliá Sitges, which has an auditorium for up to 1,384 people, and spread accommodation across hotels.

Logistics and transfers

The coach journey from Barcelona along the C-32 takes about 40 minutes, a little less from the airport. We schedule departure at 8:30 to beat the rush hour and arrive in time for an unhurried registration. On the way back, leaving around 15:30 gives anyone flying that afternoon plenty of margin to reach the airport.

Once there, almost everything is on foot: the marina, the beach and the old town are a few minutes from the hotel. You only need transport if you take dinner or an activity out to the Garraf or the Penedès.

What changes with the season

From May to October, sailing, paddle boarding and lunch on the beach take centre stage in the afternoon. In spring and autumn the weather is still mild and hotel rates drop compared with high summer. In winter we swap the sea for the old town, museums, the Penedès and indoor activities, and the hotel's spa and rooftop come into their own. We look at it month by month in our guide to the best time of year for events.

Some dates deserve a closer look: the October film festival and Carnival fill Sitges and push up accommodation prices.

Budget: what it depends on

We do not publish fixed prices because every convention is different. The main cost lines are accommodation, meeting rooms and AV, coffee breaks and meals, dinner and party, activities, transfers and coordination. What moves the cost per person most is the season, the day of the week, the number of services outside the hotel and the technical production of the plenary. We break it down line by line in the proposal, and our guide how much a convention costs explains each factor.

What we have done in Sitges

Sitges is one of the destinations where we have worked most outside Barcelona. We organised the Duscholux dealer convention around the concept 'El poder del cambio' (The power of change), two editions of Edenred's E-Day with meetings, team building and dinner, Provital's Providay and the Fiberpachs convention at Mas Solers. That experience is what sits behind the timings in this programme.

If you are after something shorter or more urban, see the two-day programme in Barcelona. If you would rather have mountains than sea, the convention in Montserrat is a similar distance away. All the options are in convention programmes, and to see how we approach the working sessions, visit company conventions.

Does Sitges fit your next convention? Tell us your dates and group size and we will send you a proposal within 24 business hours.

Sources

1. Meliá: ME Sitges Terramar, reuniones y eventos
2. Meliá: ME Sitges Terramar, información del hotel
3. Guía Michelin: ME Sitges Terramar
4. Hospitality Design: ME Sitges Terramar opens along the Catalan coast
5. Meliá: Meliá Sitges, reuniones y eventos
6. Dolce Sitges: web oficial
7. Penedès Turisme: Sant Sadurní d'Anoia
8. Femturisme: qué hacer en Sitges
9. Sitges Film Festival: auditorio del Hotel Meliá Sitges