Retreat pricing is the least transparent part of the travel industry. A week in Bali can be $1,400 or $4,200 and the pages selling them look identical. So we did the unglamorous thing and worked out honest per-day bands for every country we run in, published them, and built a tool that checks anyone's retreat against them — including retreats that are not ours.
The bands
- Thailand · Sri Lanka
- $150–280/day
- Morocco
- $150–280/day
- Bali
- $200–380/day
- Portugal · Mexico
- $250–400/day
- Greece · Costa Rica
- $350–550/day
Lowest bands we publish. Below $130 something is being cut — usually the room.
Best value in the set. Atlas lodges and Taghazout surf houses.
Wide because Ubud and Canggu price very differently.
Alentejo quintas and Oaxacan kitchens.
Island logistics and Nicoya land prices. Both worth it in season.
Three places pricing goes quietly wrong
- The single supplement. Pricing a solo traveller as half of a missing couple is the oldest bad habit in travel. Around 40% of retreat guests arrive alone. We do not charge one, and we do not list retreats that hide one in the small print.
- The 'from' price. If the advertised price is a shared room in low season and every real departure costs 40% more, that is not a price, it is a hook.
- Excluded transfers. A $200/day retreat with a $180 airport transfer each way is a $230/day retreat. Ask before you book.
The Price Checker is free and works on any retreat, not just ours.
Check a priceNew on the site
- Twenty-eight new guides: eight by country, eight by retreat type, twelve by month — so you can find out where the weather actually works in February before you start looking at photographs.
- For retreat owners: a services page explaining how we help hosts write listings that sell to solo travellers.
I booked a retreat once where the price looked fine until the single supplement, the transfer and the 'optional' excursions arrived. It was 60% more than the number on the page. I still think about it.