Winelands Experience Team Building & Corporate Events

Franschhoek, the most beautiful place for Team Building Excellence.

Winelands Experience, in conjunction with their associates, is pleased to offer the following large group and corporate activities in Franschhoek and the surrounding region.

This list is for illustration purposes only. Further options can be provided based on a specific brief supplied from the client.

For a full day event the trend is to take two or three of the options below and combine them.

A typical team-building scenario:

Our team building activities fall into two groups. Franschhoek and the surrounding area based activities and Region based activities. The activities themselves fall into the following categories:

Shared Experiences that will bring your people closer together with fun bonding as the prime objective.

Challenging Team Experiences that require group physical and intellectual participation. Programmes designed to focus on the fun of team work motivating a healthy work culture. These fun activities are grounded in organisational and psychological paradigms, tailored to each team.

Social Activities bringing to a climax end of project, workshop or end of year celebrations.

Team Development (Workshops): The focus is on growing and learning. Activities can be used to reinforce the lessons to achieve the desired objective.

Example Activities in the Franschhoek Valley:

GROUP ACTIVITY DAYS

Activity Day and Picnic

This day offers your group a relaxing “time out” in the country. Combine a number of the experiences from below for a fun filled day.

Start the day with +/- 3 hrs of fun & games organised by our Team Building specialist.

Around midday have a wine tasting followed by your braai or spit roast lunch.

After lunch the chocolate people will arrive and you then have some fun tasting and learning how to make chocolates. Having learned how to make chocolate, some of you will be “dragged” up to try making chocolates yourselves.

By late afternoon you should be ready to go home.

The objective of the day is to provide the group with a space to relax and interact at a pace that THEY select, the day is structured to provide a selection of challenging fun and very enjoyable activities. While working together in a team, your group will become a solid unit throughout the games and activities and trust will be earned by each member within the group!

Carnival/Family Day

A fun and games day with a bit of competition. Add a winelands style carnival games feel on a beautiful vineyard estate and voila we have a recipe for laughter and prizes. A series of traditional activities set out at an appropriate venue will see teams being entertained in a series of hysterically entertaining games. The activities area guaranteed to be fun and competitive yet rewarding and insightful.

Beer and Wine Tasting

Learn about the history and making of both products that go so well together. Find out how the flavours in beer match with the taste of the biltong – and explore the best combinations. Let our beer and wine experts guide you through this fun and informational tasting.

Celebrity Chefs

Spice up your culinary experience by including a Celebrity Chef as host for your special evening. Our favourites include David Grier (who recently ran the entire length of the Great Wall of China) or Katinka van Niekerk (celebrity chef and sister of Pik Botha) with her eccentric sense of humour. This evening will be filled with entertainment not to be forgotten soon – Bon Appétit!

Fly Fishing and Picnic

The group will master the basic techniques of the art of fly fishing under the private instruction of experienced fly fishermen. There is truly something romantic about this experience. Set on the banks of some of the most exquisite locations in the Western Cape, you’ll find this day both relaxing and stimulating. Your group will arrive to be greeted by coffees and pastries before embarking on their fishing adventure. Later you will enjoy a Lunch served picnic-style under the shade of the trees, and after an afternoon of fishing, a spit braai under the African stars rounds off the day.

Mountain Bus Drive

Take part in this fun day out with your team or friends. We will take you on an adventure through the Franschhoek Valley like you have never experienced before. Refreshments and drinks in the vehicle .

Horse Drawn Carriage Drive With Cheese and Wine

Experience the beauty and history of Franschhoek taking wine & cheese at historical locations along the way followed by a hearty lunch. Combine this with a scenic mountain bus or horseback ride over undulating terrain providing some adventure in a safe controlled environment where the scenery will be well worth the journey.

Bamboo Towers

Work together with your team to build a tower using only bamboo sticks and a few tools. Team mates will come together and use their individual skills and ideas to construct a bamboo tower. Something that starts individual will come out to be very important in the whole. The collaboration keeps growing and by joining forces and talents something unbelievably big can arise.

Barefoot Bowling

Why not arrange a bowling challenge between divisions, colleagues or even clients on the beautiful Bowling Green! This ‘sport’ which is often seen as an individual sport, forms the perfect foundation for a relaxed, fun and interactive day outside! Imagine the braai fires going whilst teams ‘roll it out’ to become the best bowling team! Something different and NOT for the ‘old folks’ only, as you will experience on the day!

Bikes for Tykes

Build a bike and change a life! This experience can be combined with a treasure-hunt type programme during which various bike parts will be ‘found’, or simply a stand-alone activity with a lunch/dinner. Plenty of fun, hard work and mechanical challenges will form part of it! Delegates will have to work together to build a dismantled bike. We will have an expert on standby to give a hand! Add more challenge by adding an element where delegates have to ‘budget’ and bid for their bike-parts. The bikes can be donated to a community or organisation which will distribute them where needed.

Egg Super Highway

Your team has been selected to perform a most delicate, though important, task of transporting fragile cargo which is of great importance to the survival of your tribe. The aim for this activity is for the team to work together in building a structure in line with the provided specifications and to transport your cargo along this structure. Working together, and with great caution, will end in success and immense satisfaction for your hard work of this task.

Inflatable Day

Long before there were motorised games or even motor cars for that matter the people of the land would come together for a fun day of homemade games. Suikerkaskenades is an exciting day incorporating various fun lawn and water games. We add a twist to the program with our inflatable structures.

Outwit, Outlast

Tap into the reality TV genre ‘Survivor’ (without the distasteful bugs and discomfort) within the surrounds of your venue. Your tasks will be hand picked to mirror your selected dynamics and themes to be addressed, whether fun or strategic in nature. Plenty of twists and turns culminate in selecting a winner based not only upon team performance, but equally importantly, how they have played the game.

Paparazzi Phenomena

“Say cheese!” Paparazzi Phenomena is the result of words and images converging in the hands of bright minds. This treasure hunt of words and sayings, of seemingly pointless phrases exposes a creative story through lively images. The group split into teams or Paparazzi squads hit the streets to capture on film and expose the results of their instructions.

Parachute Simulation - Egg Drop

There is a crucial item needing to be delivered safely to a very needy group. Your team are among a few teams who have been assigned the task to design and demonstrate what this product could potentially be. Design it then demonstrate it. The analogies that can be drawn from this challenge are many. The deliverables will be tied in with your group’s desired outcomes. This activity is fast, fun and really creative. Participants will have to work well as a team, co-ordinating efforts to engineer and deliver a successful product.

Rocket Challenge

Find out who the ‘rocket’ scientists in your team are! This opportunity to build and fire a rocket is one in which every member of your team plays a vital role. You may not be sending a man to the moon, but you’ll have a lot of fun trying to get your rocket to launch. Each team will receive an event pack containing the materials and tools required to design, construct, decorate and launch their rocket. “T-5, 4, 3, 2, 1, lift off!”

Suikerkaskenades

Come together with your team for a different kind of day filled with laughter and fun. Similar to our Carnival day, Suikerkaskenades will include more traditional and light competitive games such as Sack racing, Chopstick challenge, Three-legged soccer and much more! Smaller teams will hash it out against each other to walk away with the bragging rights as Suikerkaskenades Champions!

Survivor

Embark on an adventure that draws its inspiration from the hot reality TV series “Survivor”. Your group will face a series of clever immunity and reward challenges that are hand-picked. Plenty of twists and turns culminate in a tribal council aimed at selecting a winner based not only upon team performance, but equally importantly, how they have played the game. The tribe has spoken!

Wine Blending

In this experience you are divided into small groups and are then taken through the wine making and wine blending process in a local wine cellar. Following this each group will blend their own wine. At the end of it all there will be a special wine tasting of all the blended wines with a special prize for the team considered to have made the best blended wine.

007 Spy Race

The element of surprise, adventure, timings and the unknown makes this activity an option that will be remembered for years to come. Select your own identity – 007, M14, Scorpions or even the FBI! With plenty of WOW factors included, this racy event will constantly surprise and entertain your team! The race is on!

Amazing Olympics Day

Teams compete in a fun version of the Olympic Games. The games will see teams rotating through exciting challenges, earning score and working towards a final showdown challenge. The day’s challenges are all team challenges and will require everyone’s involvement; such as shot put, egg and spoon, horse shoe throw and blow pipe target shoot. The day will conclude with a tug of war competition which will award teams bonus points before prizes are handed out.

Amazing Race

The element of surprise, adventure, timings and the unknown makes this activity an option that will be remembered. There are very cool themes for this activity including 007, Austin Powers, Da Vinci Code etc. With plenty of WOW factors included, this racy event will constantly surprise and entertain your team! Go on – the race is on!

Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code Challenge is designed to challenge your intellect, resourcefulness and competitive spirit. Working in teams, you will work together to crack a series of clues designed around a specific area. You do not need to have seen the film or read the book; an interest and knowledge in puzzles and codes will be a definite advantage. You'll take an irreverent walking tour (or driving) through the nooks and crannies of your host location, seeing fascinating sights even the locals would miss. Each puzzle or cryptic clue will lead to the next stop.

EVENING PROGRAMMES

Murder Mystery Dinner

Murder mystery dinner party caters for a memorable evening of mayhem, mystery and mischief, heaped with good old fashioned fun! An ideal experience of 'level the playing fields' for corporate team-building. Each delegate receives a character profile. Arriving at the dinner dressed in costume each guest takes on the persona of their character. Seated at the dinner table together they unravel a murder mystery to discover who the culprit is! It is preferable to have an equal number of male vs. female. However, cases of "cross dressing" have often produced the most hilarious as well as memorable moments.

Themed Dinner

Spice up your year-end dinner and add a theme to it! Guests will experience a build up prior to the evening that’ll contribute to the excitement. Having a themed dinner will set an informal tone and guests will truly be able to relax. Examples of themes include; Pricilla Queen of the Desert; Austin Powers; Rock ‘n Roll; Red & Green; Witches & Vicars; Casino; Underwater Experience – and many more!!

Stargazing, Picnic & Champagne

This will be an evening to remember – guaranteed! No reason for picnic blankets to only come out during the day! Invite staff, clients or family to enjoy this breathtaking experience! Upon arrival your guests will receive picnic baskets and blankets. They will then proceed to an area where various stargazing equipment will be set up for them to enjoy the beautiful constellations with experts telling them what to look out for! Champagne and chocolates will form an essential part of the evening!

Games Night

Choose a night of fun and games for your team! Various exciting options to combine with your dinner include Casino night, Murder Mystery game, Theatre sport and even Weakest Link! If you have your own ideas let us know and we can tailor this for you. I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Walt Disney.

Dinner in Darkness

Your first bite isn’t with your eyes, as you won’t be able to see anything. Choose between Dinner in Darkness where you will be hosted and served by partially blind waiters (in complete darkness), or the Dark Dining experience (as pictured here) where delegates will each don featherweight blindfolds for the duration for the meal. While you surrender to the dark side, a team of attentive servers will help you find your fork, your wine – and when you raise your hand – your way to the bathroom! How many times have you ever had the chance to talk to people without any preconception that sight affords?