Oriental, NC Tours | Vacations | Corporate Event Management | Team Building | Destination Weddings | Emcee | Casino Nights

Oriental, NC Vacations & Event Management

Our mission at Down East Destinations is to help you experience the true adventure of life’s simple pleasures, full of learning, wrapped in fun and incredible enough to create the memories of a life time. With many years of experience, we can manage all the details of your trip or event, leaving you free to simply maximize its potential..

We are located in Orienta, the sailing capital of North Carolina. Believe it or not, there are more sailboats here than there are people. Located on the Neuse River at a point where it stretches six miles across, it's the widest river in the country and meets the Atlantic in a vast estuary.

Corporate Event Management & Teambuilding

Whether you are kicking off a new product or leveraging the diversity of your staff to become a more effective team with interactive teambuilding and learning programs, we can provide tools of corporate event planning, teambuilding, strategic planning, change management, systems thinking, stress reduction, facilitation and or conflict resolution to help you and your staff plan and experience the benefits of immediate application of new concepts and processes in the work place.

Special Events

Down East Destinations special events are specialized to our client’s wishes and can vary in size, location and theme. They can range from an elegant, themed dinner party for four prepared in a private location or unique venue by a famous chef or an elaborate corporate team building or incentive program to an extravagant holiday gathering for hundreds. From corporate & incentive functions, sailing regattas, family and social events to award banquets and fund raisers or specialty group travel. Downeast Destinations can do everything you need to provide an experience of a lifetime.

Destination Management

Our Destination Management Services also include making sure you and your guest are treated like royalty with the utmost attention to safety no matter what the event. Some of the types of destination management we provide services for are:

• Airport Meet and Greet
  • Prearranged Ground Transportation
• Boat Rental for day and week long excursions
• Companion/Spouse Programs
  • Tours/Excursions
• On and Off Property Special Events
  • Themed Event Décor
  • Entertainment
• Golf Outings/Tournaments
  • Team Building
  • Recreation
• On-Site Meeting Management
  • Registration and Hospitality Staffing
  • VIP and Speaker Support
  • Media Relations
  • Consulting

Destination Weddings

Downeast Destination Weddings are perfect for the couple looking to celebrate their most cherished day in a coastal setting. We have special wedding packages that include island get-aways and many other exotic and unique spaces. We work with the small and elegant to the large and exotic weddings and can handle everything from wedding invitations to transportation, tuxedos, from the ceremony location to the flowers. Nothing is impossible and we will hold your hand through the planning until you hold each other's hands during the ceremony.

Customized Tours

Downeast Destinations can help you customize one of our fabulous tours or help you create one of your own and can arrange for any type of transportation, special needs, and all of the activities on a tour, tailor-made to your specifications.
Destination experts create innovative and memorable programming for groups of all sizes. In the event you would like to extend your stay or make a pre-tour visit, please ask us to assist you with those types of arrangements. We will certainly do our best to accommodate, and advise you if additional airfare or stopover charges might be necessary. If we can design a tailor-made experience for individuals and family-size groups with sightseeing by private car or micro-bus, with your own personal driver/guide, just let us know!

Casino Night

Downeast Destinatons can help you decide if you want your casino night to be a casual evening get together or dressy affair. If you want to fund raise we can help you with ideas on how to maximize your return for fundraising. We can help you with a theme and any special décor to go with your Casino theme. Choosing a slogan or theme allows you to personalized everything from the invitation, decorations and favors. Let us help you design a casino night equal to Las Vegas trip without ever leaving your own hometown. So if you want to bet on a fun time let Downeast Destinations create a casino evening event.