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When the office is pumping out brilliant work week after week and bonus season is hot on everyone's heels, a bucket list worthy reward is well deserved. Enter these 20 breathtaking retreats that have one thing in common: a complete recharge of inspiration. Whether your office's preferred mode of relaxation is ocean living or the stripped down mountains of Utah, nothing says "good job" like these indulgent retreats.  Which destination matches your company's philosophy?  Reporter: Scout | Location: Malliouhana, an Auberge Resort Looking for group rates & room blocks? Click here to enter your location & budget and we will take it entirely off of your hands. 

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t have the Caribbean on their top ten travel destinations. For those who have never visited, it looks downright heavenly. Everyone imagines themselves sipping rum with their feet in the sand or their back in a hammock. From afar, it’s simply assumed that the islands see one stunning sunset after another and a cool breeze strolls through any open patio. In short, to those who haven’t had the luck or luxury of bouncing to those islands, the Caribbean is breathtaking. Now, for those who have actually been to the Caribbean, they know that everything above is absolutely true and there’s just so much more to explore. We’re with you. That’s why we put together a solid guide for where you and your partner, friends, or family should live it up. By Jake Kilroy | Venue: Villa Palmier

  While there are resorts of all kinds, the word “resort” itself inherently broadcasts the same heavenly scene—pristine beaches, crystal waters, lush palms, and all the time in the world. We think of rummy cocktails the color of sunset. A breeze tumbling across your body.  About how nobody stops smiling.  Definitively, the “good life.” This week’s #BirthdayBucketList is the beachy magnificence that is Malliouhana, An Auberge Resort as luxurious as it is laid back, as timeless as it is modern. Resting easy in Long Bay Village on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, Malliouhana is the paradise you expect when you the word “resort” sends gleeful shivers down your spine and places fantastical scenes in your mind. It’s a escape for relaxers of all sorts, with architecture that a tycoon would approve and a rum selection that a scoundrel would admire. It’s where everything melts away, leaving you in a zen-like state laid out on the beach or by the pool, wondering how anyone ever goes home. I mean, how is “visiting paradise” not on your bucket list?  

Only recently reborn as the sprawling haven on the hill, Malliouhana is now everything it once was and more. But the story of the beloved cliffside idyll begins long ago, well before it found sparkling new life in November 2014. Originally opening in 1984, Malliouhana soon earned a reputation as a long-term haunt for families returning year after year, ultimately becoming the iconic place to be for jetsetters, romantics, you name it. So when the lights went out in 2010, generations of guests were relieved to learn the resort wouldn’t just sit there on the island of Anguilla like a shipwreck, lashed at by coastal winds over time. After partnering with Auberge, the resort’s new owners sought to keep the resort’s beautiful, strong bones intact and just rework the muscles. After years of renovation, guided by the world-famous designer Todd-Avery Lenahan, the luxurious Malliouhana now reveals the clean lines of a giant modern art piece, looking as pristine as the nearby sea. But true to tradition, it also sports the timeless, charming style of the Caribbean’s 1950s-60s heyday—with bright colors, open spaces, and restored rattan. Malliouhana’s fresh balance of old-world grace and new-wave cool enhances its history and strengthens its legacy as the dream destination for any and all. It could give a wayward writer serenity. It could cultivate a pop singer’s self-discovery. It’d even make the perfect spot for James Bond to find his love interest strolling the beach or breathing in sunlight by the pool. From nearly every window or balcony, the sea looks endless, and the sky is an eternity. When it appears you’ve reached the edge of the world, is there any better plan than to sip rum and lay up in a hammock, with lush gardens on one side and unblemished beach on the other? Heck, given the resort’s full-service approach amid the cool, wandering breeze, you’ll come to think you’ll find inner peace listed right there on the menu.