Team Building Cardiff & Brecon Beacons
Get A QuoteSouth Wales Team Building Adventures & Active Corporate Retreats in Cardiff & Brecon Beacons
From the revitalised Cardiff Bay up to the stunning waterfalls and mountains in the Brecon Beacons, South Wales is the perfect getaway for corporate teams looking to have a great time and bond over fantastic new experiences.
The Brecon Beacons are packed with natural beauty and wilderness ideal for outdoor adventures and Cardiff’s range of city activities and facilities make the entire area perfect for team building and corporate retreats.
Our most popular team building activities in Cardiff and the Brecon Beacons include canyoning, hiking, mountain biking, paddleboarding and white-water rafting.
Let us take care of everything: group accommodation, transfers, food & drink as well as any offsite meetings, workshops and events. We offer a range of activities & experiences with a local host to support you from start to finish.
Check out our Brecon Beacons & Cardiff team building activities & accommodation options below, plus the events & extras tab to see everything Big Blue Adventures can do from business coaching to wellness, ensuring you have the best possible team building experience in South Wales!
Big Blue Adventures delivers tailor-made team building throughout Wales and Portugal.
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Canyoning / Gorge Walking
Stunning Waterfalls Area
Natural team building
Push the boundaries
Canyoning, or technically gorge walking here, is one of our most popular team building activities in the Cardiff & Brecon Beacons area. It is such a fun adventure that involves sliding with the rapids, jumping into rock pools and climbing behind waterfalls. It’s great for all confidence levels – we promote an “adventure for all” supportive environment perfect for pushing some boundaries and doing something a bit different. It’s a great natural team building activity with everyone supporting each other through the sections. An enjoyable ‘ice breaker’ in the stunning Waterfalls Country location.
Breakdown:
- Experienced instructors with a great energy
- All needed equipment (wetsuits, helmets, buoyancy aids) included, you just need a pair of old trainers
- Our Canyoning adventures usually last 3 – 4 hours incl. kitting up
- We can take large team building groups
- Only 45 minutes from central Cardiff
- Country pubs nearby to add on food stops
- Perfect for doubling up with other experiences nearby such as rock climbing, mountain biking or a whiskey distillery tour
Rock Climbing & Abseiling
Learn To Climb
Outdoors or Indoors
Fun Activity For Developing Trust
Looking for a great way to enjoy some adventure, but to also overcome some boundaries as a team? Rock climbing could be it! Our climbing sessions are fantastic as a team building activity, suitable for all confidence levels and ideal for those teams looking to develop some trust and togetherness as we get colleagues working together. Our rock-climbing locations near Cardiff include Brecon Beacons or the Gower Peninsula. Enjoy a day in the great outdoors with either a mountainous or coastal climb and fun abseiling sections.
Breakdown:
- Experienced instructors perfect for managing all levels of adventure confidence within teams
- All needed equipment included (bring waterproofs, warm layers depending on season and good shoes)
- Our rock-climbing adventures usually last between 3 – 4 hours incl. briefing etc
- Looking for a team challenge or charity activity to push the limits? Mention this in your quote enquiry
- Indoor climbing walls also available as a plan b for adverse weather or as a plan a if you fancy that option
- Add some lunch to your climbing day out, there are great pub options
- Great to combine with activities like hiking (or sightseeing) or paddleboarding for a double adventure day
Mountain Biking / Cycling Tours
Mountains, Forestry to River Paths
Beginner to Advanced
Cardiff & Brecon Beacons
Mountain biking and cycling tours is a crowd pleasing activity that appeals to most within a team. Whether you’re an adventurous bunch seeking some adrenaline from your tour, or the opposite of that looking for an easier cycling tour in Cardiff up the scenic River Taff to Castell Coch – we have a nice variety of cyling and mountain biking tours for all. A great way to get outdoors and active, having fun as a team.
Breakdown:
- Guided mountain biking tours with experienced instructors and quality kit included
- 1/2 day or full day tours available
- Cardiff or Brecon Beacons cycling routes
- Adjustable to confidence levels within the group
- Small to large groups
- Perfect for outdoor team building
Quad Biking
250cc Honda Quad Bikes
Grass fields, Woodlands & Tracks
Scenic Valleys Views
Between Cardiff & Brecon Beacons you can discover the hills of a working farm on a quad bike. A fun accessible activity that is easy to combine with hiking, canyoning or the assault course. Learn the basic skills of driving a quad bike before going on an exploration through nature.
Breakdown:
- Experienced instructors and quality quads
- You will get an overall and helmet, but you will need to bring an old pair of trainers and clothes for underneath the overall
- Our Quad Biking experiences are between 1 – 2 hours incl. briefing
Sightseeing & Tours
Tailor-made Sightseeing
Welsh Culture
Food & Drink Tours
Whether you fancy exploring some castles, tasting Welsh wine or getting a feel for how life was working in Welsh mines, we have an array of options to develop tailor-made sightseeing tours across Cardiff, the Brecon Beacons and south-east Wales. We can create the tours to fit around your itinerary of events and activities.
Breakdown:
- Explore by bus, foot, boat or bike
- Guided is the main service, or we can create a self-guided tour for you
- From a short stop around activities, to 1/2 day and full day tours available
- Food & Drink tours such as Llanerch Vineyard, Penderyn Whiskey and craft beer brewery tours
- Key tourist attractions from The Principality Stadium, Castell Coch, The Big Pit and Caerleon Roman Fortress & Baths to name a few
Paddleboarding (SUP)
Learn To SUP
Fun Games & Tours
Cardiff & Brecon Beacons area
SUP is a fun and easy going way to break the ice with a team. Enjoy gliding across the water and picking up some new watersports skills. After a few wobbly moments it’s relatively easy to pick up. Our coaches are super calm and fantastic at getting our groups up on their feet paddling in style. Once you have the hang of it we can get some more distance in and even add in some fun games & races. If we have more time for paddleboarding we can double up on the activity time and take teams on nice tours across Cardiff Bay and up to the Millennium Stadium (following the initial beginner session).
Breakdown:
- Learn to paddleboard on large quality inflatable boards – all kit included
- Skills, tours and fun games / races
- If we have more time we can factor in a treasure hunt challenge in teams
- Locations include Penarth Marina, Cardiff Bay and lakes in the Brecon Beacons area
- 2 -3 hours in length – fitting activity to factor in around 1/2 day meetings in Cardiff
- Changing rooms with showers and a cafe at our SUP locations
Hiking
Mountains to Coastal Hikes
Easy to Challenging
Team Challenges
Hiking is always a popular team activity as it gets everyone involved and can be adjusted to most fitness levels. In Brecon Beacons we have popular mountain routes such as Pen y Fan (highest peak in southern UK) as well as the scenic Waterfall Country. Even within Cardiff you have lovely areas for exploring such as following the Taff Trail up to Castell Coch (the fairy tale castle on a hill). For some epic coastal hikes on the famous Wales Coast Path we can venture to the Gower Peninsula or Vale Of Glamorgan. With so many stunning hiking trails available we can easily adapt these to suit your team building plan. Whether that’s going for a long day out trekking & doing orienteering challenges, or adding on a scenic few hours of hiking with a sunset finish to unwind after a day in meetings.
Breakdown:
- Qualified & experienced mountain guides with local knowledge
- Learn about nature and the history of Wales
- Various routes and length in hikes to suit the fitness levels & goals of the team
- Perfect activity for all weather and seasons in Wales
- Guests will need to bring suitable hiking shoes and clothing for the outdoors
- Team building challenges available – orienteering & map-reading can tie in nicely with survival & bushcraft as an add-on
- Sunrise to sunset settings with Welsh treats at the summit
- We can add packed lunches / Welsh themed picnics to make this a slightly more fancy trek
Assault Course
Fun Outdoor Obstacle Course
Protect The Egg!
Great Team Building Challenge
If you like the idea of a competitive team building activity for your retreat then the outdoor obstacle course is a fantastic option. Conveniently located close to Cardiff & Brecon Beacons based in The Valleys on a working farm. Depending on your group size you will either compete against each other or work together as one team to try and beat the high-score. Don’t forget to protect all the eggs inside the army box you need to carry with you over rope-bridges, through tunnels and underneath wooden obstacles. A great laugh and a fantastic way to let yourselves go and work on those core team building skills.
Breakdown:
- Experienced instructors
- Helmet included, but you will need to bring old clothes that can get muddy, as well as spare clothing for after
- Our Obstacle Course usually lasts between 2 – 3 hours incl. briefing
- Expect to get wet and muddy!
Go-Karting
Outdoor Track
Grand Prix or Endurance Races
200cc Karts
A classic group activity. Perhaps it’s finally the time to see who is really the best driver in the team! Go-karting has always been been one of those crowd-favourites as it’s a very fun accessible activity and almost anyone can join in. Choose between an outdoor track just outside of Cardiff or an indoor track in the city, where you can opt for a Grand Prix, endurance race or time race.
Breakdown:
- Experienced karting marshals / instructors
- Outdoor & Indoor tracks available
- Helmet & Overall provided
- Our Go-Karting races usually last approx. 2 hours
Yoga
Indoor or Outdoor Yoga
A Great Team Detox
Beginner Friendly
Yoga is far more than stretching and attempting to touch your toes in style. Yoga is in fact a balanced mind-body practice with energising breathing exercises, combined with flowing physical poses that work perfectly as a great way to combat stress. We have variations of yoga we can adapt to your team building retreat, whether we are going for office relaxation or if we are using the yoga to warm up for a day of adventure. The perfect ingredient for any corporate retreat, whether you want to add this as a side activity to your adventure break or if your main focus is wellness & health.
Breakdown:
- Beginner to advanced sessions
- From indoor at private venues or at your accommodation if feasible, to peaceful yoga outdoors in scenic parkland in Cardiff as well as stunning natural areas in the Brecon Beacons
- Typically up to 45 min – 1 hour per session
- We can add playful elements to get people working together on certain yoga sessions
- Yoga is easy to combine with other activities such as paddleboarding and makes a great warm up session!
- Office targeted yoga with the aim you can take these practices back home with you
- Ask us about adding on an online yoga follow up session post retreat, so our instructor can take the yoga to your office via Zoom!
White Water Rafting
Really Good Fun
No Experience Needed
Working in Teams
How about white water rafting in Cardiff Bay? A really fun watersport which fittingly involves team-work and is great for all sorts of experience and confidence levels. Paddle down the rapids in a man made course in Cardiff Bay and enjoy a fun team bonding adventure.
Breakdown:
- Experienced instructors
- All needed safety and wetsuit equipment to keep you warm – perfect for all seasons (just bring swimwear)
- Our rafting activities usually last between 2 – 3 hours incl. kitting up
- Max. 6 pax per raft, larger groups will be split over a few rafts
- Spectators welcome!
- Cafe and warm showers + changing rooms on-site at the activity centre
Canoeing
Canal Tours
Nice Scenery
Easy Going Outdoor Fun
Canoeing in Brecon Beacons is a nice playful team building activity. Taking in the serene scenery on the canals or lakes, bonding with your colleagues in an easy going setting is perfect for those groups who wish to absorb nature and the outdoors while not pushing the adventure levels so high.
Breakdown:
- 2 – 3 people per canoe
- Very solid and buoyant – peace of mind for anyone scared of falling in
- Beautiful country scenery
- Small to large group sizes
- All kit included (just bring suitable clothing)
- Works nicely with adding on hiking and sightseeing in addition for the complete day out
Indoor Surfing
Fun accessible activity
Indoor wave machine
Cardiff Bay
Looking for something fun indoors yet with the same buzz of an outdoor activity? Try your hand at some bodyboarding and learn some tricks at the indoor wave centre in Cardiff Bay. A great way to experience this fun watersport together, whilst staying warm indoors, especially handy in the colder months.
Breakdown:
- Experienced instructors
- All needed equipment (just bring swimwear)
- Indoor surf usually lasts between 1- 2 hours incl. kitting up
- Spectators welcome!
- Max. 10 people per session, but with bigger teams we can just split over multiple sessions or combine with white water rafting
- Looking for competitive fun? Why not turn this into an indoor surf competition!
Paintballing
Popular Team Fun
Promotes Teamwork
Settle Those Office Differences!
Paintballing is a very popular activity with team building groups that stay in Wales. Take on your own colleagues in a battle or compete together against another team (if you’re in a smaller group) in this exciting outdoor activity! Enjoy a variety of challenges, such as capture the flag and defend the fort, all set within natural woodlands and country fields.
Breakdown:
- Small independent paintball courses
- All needed equipment (overalls, masks, guns, gloves) included, bring some old clothes that can get muddy
- Half-day paintballing activity
- 300-500 paintballs included
- Add-ons available; smoke grenades, body-armour, extra paintballs or a more advanced paintball gun
Cardiff Hotels
3* – 5* Hotels
All group sizes
Modern with good facilities
If you would like that extra level of comfort you only find in a hotel, then we have some fantastic options for your corporate retreat in Cardiff. Ranging from 3* to 5* hotels to suit most budgets, complete with great features such as indoor pools, wellness centres and conference rooms, all set in fantastic locations across Cardiff city centre and The Bay
Features:
- 3* to 5* hotels
- From triple, twin and double rooms to executive suites
- En-suite rooms with all the modern touches and features you’d expect from a quality hotel
- On-site pools, gyms, fitness and wellness centres, balconies, restaurants & bars, depending on the hotel you choose
- We can run meetings and party events at the hotels
Brecon Beacons Hotels
3* and 4* hotels
All group sizes
Countryside location
Enjoy a stay in nature, in one of our scenic countryside hotels. If you’re after a cosy comfy corporate retreat with all the quality facilities needed for a more luxury stay, then our hotels in Brecon Beacons are the perfect choice! Surrounded by pine trees and green hills, the national park is a great escape from the city. We offer 3* and 4* options, with great features such as on site spa facilities, large dining rooms, outdoor seating areas and on site bars. If you like the idea of visiting Cardiff for the day or spending an evening there, then Brecon Beacons is close enough to visit the city.
Features:
- 3* and 4* hotels
- Scenic nature setting
- From triple, twin and double rooms to executive suites
- En-suite rooms with all the modern touches and features you’d expect from a quality hotel
- On-site spa facilities, restaurants & bars, depending on the hotel you choose
- We can run meetings and party events at the hotels
Cardiff Villas & Lodges
Small to medium groups
Exclusive hire
City & Country
For the teams who want that feeling of togetherness, with more privacy and enhanced social vibes – an exclusive villa or lodge hire is a great option. We have a variety of self-catering options with great facilities, nice character and different styles. From super modern and quirky to scenic log cabins by a lake, there’s something to suit every team!
Features:
- Self-catering, or catered for food & drink service available
- Shared or private rooms, variety of sizes from twin en-suites to larger bunk-bed rooms
- Nice social spaces to hang out together
- We can bring team meetings, workshops and small events to you at the accommodation
- Choose Cardiff Bay, the city or a little further afield in the neighbouring countryside
- Wi-fi and the expected essential facilities included
Brecon Beacons Lodges & Cottages
Small to medium groups
Exclusive hire
Countryside location
Our private lodges & cottages in the Brecon Beacons are great for team building groups wanting to share communal areas with each other and don’t mind sharing some of the bedrooms with members of the team. The lodges are great for socialising and team bonding and are very comfortable with all the needed facilities for a great corporate getaway. Some of the lodges come with cosy living rooms with log-burner, large self-catering kitchens, a variety of bedrooms (twins, doubles and bunk-rooms) and a beautiful natural setting overlooking the countryside and hills of the Brecon Beacons.
Features:
- Self-catering, or catered for food & drink service available
- Shared or private rooms, variety of sizes from twin en-suites to larger bunk-bed rooms
- Nice social spaces to hang out together
- We can bring team meetings and small events to you at the accommodation
- Enjoy being in nature and reconnecting with the team
- Wi-fi and the expected essential facilities included
- Easy to get to Cardiff for a day-trip, activity or evening out
Cardiff Hostels
All group sizes
Private rooms
Communal Areas
Hostels are a great option for a cost effective, quality and social team getaway with us in bustling Cardiff. We have a few great options perfect for a range of team sizes. Our hostels are just a short walk to all the restaurants, bars and shops Cardiff has to offer!
Features:
- Cool, social vibes in modern, clean hostels
- Range of bedrooms from bunk bed dorms, to double / twin en-suites available at our hostels
- Spaces we can deliver small conferences
- Wi-fi and the expected essential facilities included
Wellness
Meditation & Yoga
Spa Treatments
Injury Healing & Prevention
Wellness and mental health are becoming more and more important these days, when a lot of our working hours are based around online Zoom meetings and sitting still at a desk.
Yoga & meditation can help you relax and keep the body healthy. Join us for beginner flow yoga sessions and add meditation to really find some mindfulness.
In Cardiff & Brecon Beacons we can also book in a variety of spa treatments if you fancy a couple of hours by the pool or enjoying a massage. We’ve also teamed up with a great local company called Agile Therapy who specialise in injury healing & prevention. Have you noticed you have a bad posture when working behind your desk? Agile might be able to help with body realignment and give you tips on how to stay fit & healthy in your workplace!
Breakdown:
- Everything is tailor-made to suit all kinds of teams and fitness levels
- Perfect to fit into a busier itinerary of activities and events
- Indoor & outdoor yoga
- Meditation sessions to improve mindfulness in the office
- Great package elements to combine with adventure for a complete office detox
Team Development with Ffion Jones
Create High Performing Teams
Develop Trust & Culture
Collaboration in hybrid/remote teams
You’ve built fantastic energy and trust in your outdoor team-building – now you want to keep it! A collaborative team workshop as a speedy follow up to your event will help you harness that energy and feed it into creating a high performing, healthy team. In a world moving at lightning speed teams must be flexible, adaptable, virtual and still need to deliver excellent work and fresh ideas. To lead in this world, collaboration amongst your people is going to be one of your key differentiators.
Check out our interview video discussing corporate retreats and the value of team training with Ffion here!
Breakdown:
- Ready made or bespoke workshops for a range of team challenges
- We can cover: Collaborative behaviours and skills, how to lead a team in hybrid office/remote working, psychological safety and trust, team purpose and much more!
- Our workshops offer active, experiential learning in any environment – indoor or out
- Highly experienced team coaching and development professionals to take care of you and your team
- Our workshops work perfectly with our outdoor exploring and adventures, resulting in a positive setting and refreshed frame of mind for maximise on this opportunity
More on Ffion Jones:
- Qualified Team Coach, Chartered Member CIPD, Strengthscope Accredited Facilitator
- Delivered Leadership, High Performing Teams and Coaching to HS2 Stations projects, Network Rail, Admiral, Fiat Chrysler amongst others
- Passionate about helping teams get better at being teams, Ffion’s career in Learning and Development has seen her work with and support a variety of people and projects. In a world moving at lightning speed, she helps teams become flexible, adaptable, and collaborative to deliver excellent work and fresh ideas.
- Working across industries like financial services and engineering, Ffion established her consultancy, Beautiful Minds to provide workshops, coaching, psychological safety, digital teamwork and collaboration in bid teams to improve innovation and help them rediscover the joy in what they do.
Beach & Nature Cleans
Beach & Country Cleans
As much time as you can commit!
Great for your team CSR
Here at Big Blue Adventures we love our planet and see first hand the horrible effects pollution and littering has on our natural playgrounds. We all have a big part to play in protecting our planet and adding a team beach clean or clean up on a river / in the countryside is a great thing to do first of all, but also a fantastic CSR initiative. Do mention this on your quote for or when you talk with us and thank you for thinking about the planet – she needs it!
Events, Meetings & Parties
Full Events Service
Conferences, Meetings & Parties
Live Music, Team Pub Quiz & More
If your corporate retreat aim is to use the time away for a conference or other type of business event then we are conveniently also experienced events managers with a great network behind us. Whatever your event requirement is, we can make that happen in addition to any activities & wellness elements. Cardiff & south Wales has world-class events facilities for a range of group sizes. Do mention this in your quote enquiry if you are also needing to add in some events time.
Breakdown:
- Conferences, meetings and events for teams from 6 people up to 500+ – whatever your need is we can help!
- Create the perfect space to escape the office and get creative, come up with new strategies and products
- Co-working space options
- Parties, awards and celebrations
- Branding, printing and other event services
- Guest speakers and event MCs
- Full hospitality & catering
- Small scale fun events such as pub quizzes and live-music
Mind Nourishing Workshop
Nutritional Therapy For Teams
Good Food – Good Mood
Healthy Eating Workshops
With a busy stressful working life affecting most teams and individuals, we often neglect the value of healthy eating practices in place of a quick fix to keep us going. Mind Nourishing’s mission is to inspire busy people to make small shifts to their everyday meals and mindset to create large changes to their future health and happiness. We can include this very interesting nutritional aspect of wellness to your team building retreat that answers those common questions that affect many of us: Why do I struggle with energy levels?
Why do I feel irritable and unhappy for no real reason? Take back the control of your emotions, improve your energy and get back that ‘oomph’ your team may be missing!
Breakdown:
- Practical cooking workshops, educating your team about new recipes and nutritional values of ingredients that boost moods
- Learn about team boosting good food = good mood dinners, lunch breaks and breakfasts to enhance productivity and team happiness
- Have fun cooking together in healthy eating cookery classes
- Meal planning and nutrition workshops
- Talk to us about a follow up programme, taking new info and practices back home with you after your retreat
- Tailor-made nutritional wellness to fit your retreat event
- We can bring the workshop to you at your accommodation
- Delivered by Laura Bryan a registered Nutritional Therapist (mBANT, CNHC, Msc) “I truly believe that everyone should have the knowledge and opportunity to feel as happy and healthy as possible!”
Fitness Bootcamps
Use as part of corporate wellness
In nature or in the gym
Beginner to advanced fitness
Our fitness bootcamps are run by friendly and supportive PT’s with bags of experience and a big love for getting people active and feeling healthy. It’s all tailor-made to your fitness levels and goals. The key is to have some fun with the workouts, learn something new and ensure you take something that you can adapt into your new day-to-day routines. Cardiff is a sporting city with top training facilities as well as lovely park lands and waterfront areas perfect for indoor and outdoor bootcamps. Brecon Beacons also has stunning outdoor areas as well as hotels we work with where we can use indoor pools and gyms to cover both the outdoors and indoors for our bootcamps there.
Breakdown:
- Improve core fitness as well your team’s physical and mental wellbeing
- Perfect for all sorts of team, from sports clubs to office based teams
- Length and type of workouts will be tailor-made to the overall retreat plans and time of year
- Can be included as part of a sports team tour with friendly local matches that we can help set-up as a pre-season or end of season tour
Motivational Speakers
Big Wave Surfer, Andrew Cotton
Adventure Explorer, Maria Leijerstam
Plus More Options
A good story can motivate us all with a fresh new perspective. Seeing how other mere mortals tackle extraordinary situations and how they manage stress through strong mindsets and dedication is something we can all be inspired by! We work with a range of awesome speakers, such as Red Bull’s Andrew Cotton or Guinness World Record Holder and Adventure Racer Maria Leijerstam, who both have fantastic stories to tell! Whether you are keen adventurers or completely the opposite, what you learn from the likes of Maria and Andrew will supercharge you with their mindset tips & tricks and inspiration that you can transfer into your day to day work and lives. Our speakers will provide your team with a unique and personal experience that will ignite a motivational spark that works perfectly with our other North Wales team-building activities for the complete adventure!
Breakdown:
- Be inspired by Andrew Cotton, a Red Bull sponsored big wave surfer famous for riding monster waves of over 80 feet and overcoming major injury setbacks to achieve his ultimate goal! Experience how this world-class athlete manages his mindset and the demands big wave riding has on him both mentally and physically. Andrew also provides specialist practical workshops developing mindset and breathwork techniques that helps control stressors and fears in pressure situations. Andrew has had great success with both his talks (including Tedx Talks) and practical workshops online and offline, helping sporting brands such as Exeter Chiefs and Arsenal FC. A unique and awesome experience for any industry with transferrable information your team can implement into their day-to-day lives.
- Guinness world record holder Maria Leijerstam is a multi-adventure racer and has taken on some of the world’s toughest challenges. Her stand out achievements include being the first person to cycle solo to the South Pole, as well as completing the Marathon Des Sables which involves tackling 6 consecutive marathons over several days in 47 degree heat! Maria stills competes and also runs adventure races in the UK as well as providing unique motivational speeches for corporate teams. Maria’s motivational drive and stories from her adventures will provide a truly fascinating addition to your corporate retreat event, whether that’s online or offline.
- We also have a variety of speakers available at different budgets
- Combine with other outdoor adventures take take it from theory into real life situations working on targeted areas for perfect well-rounded experience. Amazing for pushing boundaries, combating fears and developing stronger team mindsets
- Also available as a stand alone event option
Team Challenges
Team v Team Competitions
Charity Challenges
Friendly Fun to Multi-day Expeditions
Cardiff and Brecon Beacons presents the perfect place for a nice variety of team challenges. Your challenge can be focused around nature, adventure, fitness, culture – you name it. Whether you want to push the boundaries on a multi-night expedition in Brecon Beacons raising funds for a charity, a fun team treasure hunt race across Cardiff or orienteering with bushcraft in the outdoors – the list can be near endless. We have loads of ideas and options to suit your goals.
Breakdown:
- Here to help you safely push the limits for exciting team adventures
- From riddle solving challenge tours across Cardiff, to hiking expeditions in Brecon Beacons
- Choice of outdoor activities, watersports and experiences
- Tailor-made charity challenges based around adventure and pushing boundaries
- Branding and printing for clothing and event banners available
- Make it a surprise survival challenge! Find out clues and details as you go along
Hosted Team Building Adventures
With any of our Big Blue adventures we always aim for a personal customer service (Travel & Hospitality Award winners for ‘excellence in customer service’) and have a friendly face there to welcome you to your corporate retreat in Wales. We are on hand to host the key parts of your retreat so you can sit back and relax, we’ll do the organising for you and bring some good vibes too!
Local Transfers
If you need transport from your accommodation to our activities then we can arrange that for you, in fact it is usually expected on a group trip like a team building event. We have mini-busses and coaches available for groups of all sizes. Our mini-busses are also available for evening out returns and various day-trips to surrounding areas. On request we can also include transport from your office to the team building location!
Meals & Drinks
You can choose between Bed & Breakfast, half board or all-inclusive for your corporate retreat. We can also add extras like a drinks-reception package, packed-lunch and BBQ nights. Just add it to your ‘get quote’ options and we will get that included in your team building package!
Pictures & Highlights Video
On our hosted team building adventures we take our GoPro cameras and shoot some great pictures & videos. We’ll send these to you afterwards and make a personal highlights video for your team, the best way to remember your corporate trip!
Team Building Extras
There are lots of extras we can add to your team building trip in Cardiff & Brecon Beacons, including brewery tours and help with restaurant reservations & private event spaces. If you have any ideas, or would like more info on the extras we can provide, feel free to ask us on the get quote page.
Why Adventure With Us…

We work as one big team with our local activity providers, making sure that together we offer a high quality experience for teams. Each activity has been tried & tested, and personally chosen by us.


Hosted group adventure travel, with numbers between 10-200+ people. BBA offers an award winning service; we’ll always go the extra mile to ensure our packages are perfect for your team building needs.
Quality Team Time
Our corporate retreats provide a fun environment to reconnect offline! Nature, adventure and good vibes create the perfect setting to bounce fresh ideas around and to catch up on important team talks.


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Why We Love This…
“The Cardiff & Brecon Beacons region is the perfect combination of city and nature. I love the fact that we can take groups on activities in the Brecon Beacons from their Cardiff event or accommodation within 40 minutes, so they can benefit from all the facilities Cardiff has to offer plus get a good outdoors hit. My personal favourite team building activity is canyoning in the Brecon Beacons with stunning nature and a world-class adventure!“
Daniel – Founder & Co-owner