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2When?
Season
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Your estimate
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Your estimate includes
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Lodging
Heated and air-conditioned bunkrooms, each sleeping up to 14 guests, with bathrooms in the building. See the lodges.
Rustic, unheated cabins sleeping 12 to 16 guests each, with nearby bathhouses; available mid-April through mid-October. See the cabins.
Bedding is not included in the lodges or cabins: guests bring their own sleeping bag or bedding, pillow and towels.
Meals
Meals
On your arrival and departure days, tap a meal to add or drop it.
0 meals per person
Meeting space
One meeting room for your whole group is included
Additional large meeting rooms, beyond the one included
One meeting room that seats your whole group is already included, with basic AV (projector, microphone and music) in every indoor meeting space that seats more than 75. If you need more, additional large meeting rooms may be available for $185 per room per night (up to 2 more), for breakouts or a second program. Smaller breakout rooms are free. See our meeting spaces.
Large meeting rooms:
Recreational spaces
Sports fields, gym and other shared spaces
Recreational activities with a charge
Tick the ones you want; each starts with a typical amount you can change.
seasonal
$165 per hour with two lifeguards, good for up to 100 swimmers at a time (Maryland requires one lifeguard per 50 swimmers). Larger groups add a lifeguard for each additional 50 swimmers at $30 per hour. Open late May through mid-September.
seasonal
$115 per hour for canoes and kayaks with our waterfront staff. The waterfront is open April through October.
Harness helpers. Adults from your group put harnesses on participants and our facilitators check each one: about one helper for every 12 to 16 participants each hour, arriving an hour early for training. Or use Sandy Hill harness helpers at $55 per helper per hour.
$225 range setup and usage fee plus $7.50 per person for a 45 to 60 minute session with our instructors (about 12 shooters per session). Availability depends on staffing, especially very early and very late in the retreat season.
$55 per fire pit if Sandy Hill builds and tends it; $35 if your group builds it with our materials
$0.25 per token for the Lighthouse game room (skee-ball, air hockey and more). Groups typically buy about 10 per guest.
August
$165 per hour, about 30 riders per hour, 2-hour minimum. Limited availability: August only, and dependent on staffing.
Private rooms for special guests
Private rooms sleep 1–4 and are for speakers, pastors, leaders, families and others supporting the event while the group stays in the cabins or lodge bunkrooms. There are a limited number.
Private room, en suite bath
$65 per room per night. Officer's Quarters rooms with their own bathroom; 9 available.
Private room, hall bath
$40 per room per night. Private rooms in our newest lodges that share a hall bathroom. Coming soon: these rooms open with our two newest lodges in summer 2027, so they are available for stays from then on.
Linen sets
$25 per person per event: bedding, towels and washcloths, for guests in private rooms.
Linens are available for private-room guests only. Add a room above.
Price breakdown
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The minimum for an event at Sandy Hill is 75 guests. Smaller groups pay for 75, which raises the per-person price below.
Enter your group size in step 1 to see your estimate.
*This estimating program is designed to give you a rough idea of the overall price and per person price for a retreat at Sandy Hill. For exact pricing, please contact the Sandy Hill office. These prices are subject to change at Sandy Hill's sole discretion at any time without notification.
Nearly all of our retreat groups are "not-for-profit" groups (schools, churches, etc.), so there is only one set of prices for our retreats regardless of a group's tax-exempt status.
** These prices do not include any applicable sales tax for our "for-profit" groups.
** These prices do not include any applicable sales tax for our "for-profit" groups.
