Team outings and adventure days in Bengaluru

A catered veg lunch

₹350 a plate, plus GST and transport

An hour in an escape room

₹750 a head plus tax, no food

A day at a lakeside resort

₹1,250 a head, lunch and tea in, no bus

Two days on a trek

₹4,149 a head plus GST, bus, tents and meals in

Cheaper ways that work.

• Someone on the team runs the games in a park or the office, so the only cost is lunch.
• A restaurant lunch booked direct, at its own menu prices. Ask for a private area and one bill.
• A Forest Department trek, booked yourself, with a hired van. One operator's 12-seat tempo traveller is ₹4,500 for 8 hours and 80 km, about ₹375 a head for 12, plus the driver's allowance and the trek fee, which we couldn't find.
• Everyone makes their own way and the company pays the cab fares. It suits a small team going somewhere in the city.

Other prices in the city. Bowling is ₹380 a game with shoes, GST included. A games venue's group rate is ₹750 a player an hour for at least 2 hours, so ₹1,500 a head at the least. A team-building company's 90-minute session at your office starts at ₹750 a head plus 18% GST.

Pick the side of town your office is on. A team in Manyata or Hebbal has a shorter drive to the airport side, and one in Electronic City or JP Nagar to Kanakapura Road. Ask each place for the time from your office on the day you'll travel.

A lakeside resort, Kanakapura taluk

₹1,250 a head

An adventure resort, Kanakapura Road

₹2,850 a head plus tax

10 am to 5:30 pm, lunch and afternoon tea

A welcome drink, a lunch buffet and hi-tea

Kayaking, and zip lines, one landing in the water

Kayaking and a zip line

A pool, rope games, paintball, a trampoline, two ATV laps

A dirt kart and a sky swing

Tax: the page doesn't say

A pool and court games

The same place can be the cheaper one or the more expensive one. The adventure resort's ₹2,350 package drops the kayak and the zip line, and its ₹2,900 one swaps them for a tree climb and other rides. Read what's in each package before the price.

What the extra pays for, as far as the pages say. A dirt kart, on a track the resort calls India's longest dirt kart track, a sky swing and a welcome drink. The kart needs a valid driving licence. The gap is ₹1,600 a head before tax, and about ₹1,900 if both add 18%.

The pages don't explain the rest. Neither says how many staff watch each ride or what safety gear they use, so ask both (question 8).

With a host to run the games, about ₹2,600 to ₹3,000 a head. Add 2 to 3 hours of games from one host here, ₹20,000 to ₹30,000 plus travel, and the day for 30 comes to about ₹78,600 to ₹89,300. That's our sum, and the resort, the vans and the host are each booked and paid separately.

The same sum at the ₹2,850 resort comes to about ₹3,850 a head. That's ₹85,500 for the day, ₹15,390 if its tax is 18%, and the same vans.

Ask what tax goes on, and at what rate. The same ₹2,000 can mean ₹2,000 or ₹2,360. Some places here add 18% GST, a camp adds 5% and a fee, and one resort puts GST in its price.

Ask which rides cost extra. One resort charges ₹300 a head for paintball, for at least 6 players, and ₹100 a session for its rope course, archery and target shooting. One camp leaves out the transfers and paintball.

Ask when the head count locks. You pay for the number you give, so give the number of people who've said yes.

Three things push the bill up: the 8 hours run out fast once you add a drive each way, kilometres over 80 are charged on top, and a late start back adds hours. If the resort day ends at 5:30, agree the pick-up time with the driver before you leave.

Getting everyone home safely. Plan the drop points before you pick the place, so the van leaves people near home or somewhere they can get a cab easily. Leave early enough that the last drop is before dark, and ask everyone to share their ride home in the team group.

For a small team going somewhere in the city, let people make their own way and have the company pay their cab fares. Once anyone is drinking, a van is the safer choice.

At about 30 people the two cost about the same. For 60, a team-building company's 90-minute session comes to about ₹53,100 with GST, and Ruby Gracia's 2 to 3 hours is ₹20,000 to ₹30,000, travel extra. They aren't the same thing: the company adds a debrief and a report, and the host runs games for longer. Pick by what your team wants from the day.

Hosts here who run team days. Ruby Gracia told us that on team-bonding and offsite days, usually at resorts or on the city's edge, she runs games and activities instead of stage announcements. She brings her props and the venue gives the mic. A large share of Raina Dsouza's work is for companies, including offsite days. Ask her for a quote. Jyoti Kochatta told us hosting and her own games are "a complete single thing", one fee. Priyanka Roy runs group games for teams: at one company event for women, she played Bhangra, stopped the music and called a number, and everyone formed groups of that size.

Or a workshop, for a team that hates games. An art or craft session in the office keeps everyone at a table, and nobody has to perform in front of the others.

Little Creatives Club runs craft workshops for groups, from ₹5,000 a booking, as relayed to our team.

A planner can do the rest of the day, but you still pick the place. In Mirakle Events' words:

Send the list before anyone signs up, to everyone at once, so nobody has to ask in the group chat.

• Can't swim. Rafting takes non-swimmers in a life jacket, from age 13. Tell the operator how many can't swim. They don't need names.
• Pregnant, injured, or worried about weight. The written list of limits covers it.
• Toilets and a place to change. Ask in the same message, for rafting, paintball and anything wet.
• Older or less fit people. A guided walk, a lunch with a game at the table, or a workshop in a hall suits everyone.
• People who hate being put on show. A craft or art workshop puts them at a table with their hands busy (question 6).
• Paperwork on the day. A dirt kart at one resort needs a driving licence. A Forest Department trek needs the government ID used to book, and older trekkers a fitness certificate.
• Food. Ask for veg and Jain counters by number, and say if anyone is fasting. Some caterers cook veg and non-veg in the same kitchen, so ask if that matters to anyone.

Ask these in writing, before you pay.

• Their licences and certificates. In Kodagu every raft needs a fitness certificate from GETHNAA, a Karnataka government adventure academy, renewed each year, and Karnataka Tourism's guidelines ask operators to hold the licences and certificates they need.
• What safety gear each activity uses. For rafting, a GETHNAA adviser lists secured life jackets, crash helmets, rescue floats with a line and a first-aid kit.
• How many trained staff watch each group, and on which rides.
• A lifeguard at the pool and the lake, with depth marks and life-saving gear.
• Whether they insure the people taking part, and what the waiver makes your company take on.
• How far the nearest hospital is, and who drives there.

What a good answer sounds like. One resort near the airport says it has a lifeguard at every water activity and certified harnesses on its rope course. Ask for that kind of answer, in a message you keep.

On a trek, the Forest Department's rules put a certified guide with every 10 trekkers, with walkie talkies, and allow at most 150 on a route at once.

What goes wrong. In July 2026 a man fell about 40 feet at a Dandeli resort when a zipline failed. At Dandeli, one operator has said some others overload rafts and send people out without life jackets. Pick an operator who puts the gear and the staff in writing.

Three simple ways to handle it. Pay for soft drinks and let people buy their own alcohol, set a tab the company covers up to a limit, or pick a venue's set drinks package. One brewery here sells 3-hour packages that run from soft drinks only up to premium spirits, so a team can choose.

Plan for the people who don't drink. Make the day about the activity or the food, so the bar isn't the main event.

Getting home. If people will drink, hire the van (question 5), so nobody drives back.

The resort's terms. Ask before you pay: how much of the advance comes back, by how many days' notice, and whether you can move the date instead.

Rain. For a day outdoors, ask what the indoor fallback is. Rafting at Dandeli runs about October to June and pauses for the monsoon.

A Forest Department trek. Book 1 to 30 days ahead. Since 15 July 2026, half comes back if you cancel 8 or more days ahead, nothing inside 7, and a cancelled ticket can't be booked again. A 2024 report says one booking covers up to 10 people, so a team of 30 may need three.