Managing Retreats in Mangobeds

If you sell retreats, yoga weeks, wellness packages or any fixed-date experience, Mangobeds has a dedicated Retreats app. Each retreat is its own listing with its own dates, per-room pricing, custom guest questions, online payments and a public landing page.


Before you start

  • The accommodations you want to include in the retreat already created in your property (with their normal coliving / short-stay pricing). See How to Create Accommodations in Mangobeds if you haven’t set yours up yet.
  • A booking form set up the way you want retreats to be booked. It carries the things that don’t change between retreats: extras catalog, custom guest questions, terms & conditions URL, payment behavior (deposit %, save card details, etc.). One booking form can serve many retreats, so most properties only need a single “Retreats” booking form. See Getting Bookings From Your Website With Mangobeds if you haven’t set one up yet.
  • Optional: a payment account connected to the property if you want to take deposits or full payment online. See Payment Accounts and Online Payments for how to connect one.

Create your first retreat

  1. Open Property → Apps → Retreats.
  2. Click Create retreat.
  3. Fill in:
    • Title — what shows on the public retreats page and the detail page (e.g. Nature Adventure Holiday).
    • Description — the long-form pitch. What’s included, what guests will experience, anything they need to know before they book.
    • Start date / End date — the exact retreat window. Bookings are locked to these dates.
    • Booking form — pick the form you set up earlier. This is what the retreat reuses for extras, custom guest questions, terms and payment behavior.
    • Images — hero photo + gallery shots.
    • Included accommodations & pricing — check the accommodations that are sellable for this retreat. For each one, enter the total all-inclusive price for the whole retreat.
    • Disabled (optional) — tick this to keep the retreat off the public page while you finalize it. Untick to publish.
  4. Click Create. The retreat appears in the grid and on the public retreats page.

Share the public retreats page

Every property gets a public retreats page that lists every upcoming, non-disabled retreat sorted by start date. At the top of the Retreats app you’ll find a card with the URL, a Copy button and an Open button — share it directly with your audience, or feature it in your newsletter.

Each individual retreat also has its own public page. To grab that link, open the 3-dot menu on a retreat card and click the share option.

Retreat bookings consume the same inventory as direct bookings, so availability stays consistent across both channels. The same room can have a regular nightly rate AND a retreat-week total price at the same time, without any conflict.

Running the same retreat multiple times a year

If you run the same retreat four times a year (e.g. the same Nature Adventure Holiday in May, July, September and October), don’t fill the form four times. Open the 3-dot menu on the source retreat and click Clone. Pick the new dates and click Clone.

You can tweak anything afterwards by clicking the cloned retreat and editing.

Tips

  • Set the dates first when creating — if dates are already filled when you tick an accommodation, the retreat price field will prefill with the accommodation’s base nightly price × number of nights as a starting point. Bump it up from there to the retreat total.
  • Use one “Retreats” booking form for all your retreats unless they really need different extras / terms / payment behavior. Edit it once, every retreat picks up the change.
  • Custom guest questions are the cleanest way to capture dietary needs, experience level, emergency contacts or signed waivers — set them on the booking form and they show up on every retreat that uses that form.
  • The Disabled toggle is your “draft” mode — finish a retreat over a few days without it showing up on the public page until you’re ready.

Wrap-up

The Retreats app turns Mangobeds into a proper platform for selling packages: dedicated landing pages, per-accommodation retreat pricing, clone for recurring occurrences, and a built-in booking widget that flows through your existing payment provider. Set up one booking form, create as many retreats as your plan allows, and share the link.

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