Couples Retreats

Arriving as two

Couples come to the hillside for different reasons — a milestone worth marking, a quiet week set between two demanding years, the first trip taken alone together since the children were small. What they share is a preference for a week that does not have to be negotiated. Your preferences are reviewed before you arrive, and two plans are waiting on the first morning, overlapping where you want them to and diverging where you do not. Privacy when you want it. A shared table when you do not.

Three nights, four, or seven

The Three-Day Reset runs Thursday to Sunday and suits a long weekend carved out of a working month. The Four-Day Escape arrives Sunday or Wednesday and gives the treatment rooms more of the week. The Seven-Day Renewal runs Sunday to Sunday — long enough that by the second morning the stay stops feeling like a trip. Every length is all-inclusive in the same way: accommodations with a king-sized bed, three chef-prepared meals daily and snacks, unlimited fitness classes, nutrition lectures, cooking demonstrations, and complimentary round-trip transportation from San Diego International Airport. Anything taken one-to-one or two-to-one sits outside that — private and semiprivate sessions, a trainer-led hike — and reservations will walk you through those costs before you commit to them.

What two people tend to book

The Couples Massage is two tables set side by side — a shared hour of quiet that begins the week together. The pairing runs through the rest of the program as well. Partner yoga sits on the daily class schedule, so it costs nothing beyond the stay. A Semiprivate Hike out onto the ten miles of private trail, a semiprivate fitness session, and a semiprivate swim session are paid additions booked alongside the week rather than drawn from it — worth knowing before the schedules are composed, not at checkout. In the spa, the estate's own rituals draw on what grows here: the Vinothérapie grape-skin wrap pressed from the vineyard below, the lavender honey wrap gathered from the apiary, and Watsu, taken cradled in the warm saltwater pool while gentle movement does the work.

Do we have to keep the same schedule?

No. Two guests traveling together are given two schedules, composed separately by the wellness directors and joined wherever you ask them to be joined. One of you takes the daybreak hike while the other sleeps, and you meet at the long table for breakfast. Nothing about that needs explaining at the front desk — the schedules are built to come apart and back together as many times as the day requires.

Which room suits two people?

Every villa guest room is composed for two, with a king-sized bed, a soaking tub set in travertine, and a private sundeck or balcony turned toward the lavender. The seven suites carry the most generous proportions on the estate. Reservations will talk through which fits the week you have in mind.

How does an evening unfold?

At half past six the limestone foyer fills for hors d'oeuvres and a glass of Château Cal-a-Vie wine — the hour when two separate schedules become one again. Dinner follows at seven, by candlelight, carried through course by course and unhurried. On Tuesdays the shuttles gather afterward and climb the hillside to the Observatory, where a Takahashi telescope and our resident astronomer open the night sky. Two wine tastings sit on the schedule each week. None of it is compulsory; the terrace is an equally good answer, and the hillside goes quiet early either way.

Are there weeks built for two?

Special Stay for Two and Autumn Away for Two return to the events calendar through the year, alongside Food & Wine Week and the seasonal offers. The calendar is the simplest place to see which dates are open. For a date that is not listed, our reservations team composes the same week around you — the program is shaped guest by guest regardless of what the week is called.

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