Coeur d'Alene Golf & Spa Resort

Aconsistent winner of the AAA Four Diamond Award since 1986, The Coeur d’Alene Resort fronts its namesake lake in its namesake town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Just 40 minutes from Spokane International Airport and steps from the downtown area’s fashionable shops, bars, and restaurants, the resort offers luxury, serenity, golf, and lake-related activities to round out any business trip.

Nearly all 338 guest rooms and suites focus on the lake and surrounding mountains, with an upscale residential feel inside. The same can be said for the eight bars and restaurants, whose offerings range from dockside American casual to the finest of Pacific Northwest cuisine.

With 28 meeting rooms, the conference facilities host executive retreats for 10 delegates as readily as corporate-wide assemblies of 1,200. Attendees inevitably applaud the meeting services staff and team-building programs such as zip-line tours and Escape CDA, a timed game requiring cooperation and strategy to break out of a locked room.

Adding a round of championship golf on the resort’s renowned course — featuring the world’s only movable, floating green — heightens any event. Golfers ride to the lakeside course six minutes away on mahogany water taxis. Other recreational highlights include lake cruises, tastings from the Northwest’s largest private wine collection, and tours of Casco Bay and the region’s largest private garden, as well as shopping, skiing, water sports, and hiking.