Asheville Corporate Incentive

Two nights at Asheville with a supercar driving day, run for corporate groups, based at a resort on a castle estate.

The castle estate is the best known house in North Carolina and the resort sits on its grounds, which gives a group a private setting without a private rental. Asheville itself is a small city with a disproportionate number of good restaurants and breweries in it, which helps. The trip opens with a team cocktail hour and Spanish tapas at a local institution.

The driving day goes into Pisgah National Forest, which runs to over five hundred thousand acres of hardwood with mile-high peaks, whitewater rivers and waterfalls in it, and then into the misty Blue Ridge beyond, with the cars rotated through the group. Team-building arrangements or free time at the resort spa fill the rest. Autumn is what this one is built for: the southern Appalachians hold more hardwood species than almost anywhere in the temperate world, and the colour runs through October at different altitudes.

Access to a full fleet of current supercars for the driving day, two nights at the resort, the group cocktail hour and dining and the onward chauffeur transfers are included; flights, the team-building add-ons and spa treatments are not, and the price is given on application. Three days is an incentive format rather than a holiday. The first half of October is the week to aim for, and those dates book out a long way ahead across the whole region. The colour is weather dependent, as it always is.