Airbnb “Early Elders” Retreat @ MEA
By Chip Conley, Mark Levy
Spend a week retreating at Chip Conley’s MEA wisdom school, reconnecting with some Airbnbers from the early days, while exploring your potential in this chapter of life and beyond. In addition to taking a trip down memory lane and reconnecting; our time together is an opportunity to continue our journey of personal and professional growth.
To register, email [email protected]. We will follow up with instructions.
From Jan 20, 2025 - Jan 25, 2025
Our shared experience in the early Airbnb days was incredibly special and unique, in large part because of the people who were a part of it. Chip Conley and Mark Levy thought it would be great to create a space to come together again with Chip’s Baja beachfront, MEA campus as the ideal setting. We are calling this the Airbnb “Early Elders” Retreat - gathering insightful employees from the early days to reconnect, learn and take advantage of this incredible seaside paradise.
This week-long experience will include plenty of free time to relax and have fun doing activities together as well as some more structured time to experience the much-heralded curriculum of Chip’s wisdom school. And the whole week will be full of delicious food and drink.
Days 1-2 - Enjoy the property together! Do yoga, go hiking, surfing, horseback riding, massaging, hot tubbing, hanging out with a shaman, and sharing stories.
Days 3-5 - MEA curriculum focused on how to cultivate and harvest wisdom (at any age), adopt more of a growth mindset and regenerative spirit, and feel more purposeful in our lives.
Your Workshop Leaders
Chip Conley
Chip Conley is a hospitality entrepreneur, New York Times best-selling author, and the founder of MEA. His new book, “Learning to Love Midlife,” launches in January 2024.
Is this retreat for you? We hope so 🙂
This week is reserved exclusively for early Airbnb employees (pre-2017) and their partners. In addition to reconnecting with the early Airbnb community, this workshop is designed to explore your potential and deepen your relationship with yourself.
This will be the inaugural week of Airbnb @ MEA, and we will also be asking the group to provide feedback in order to help us co-create experiences for future Airbnb @ MEA weeks.
MEA is generously offering this all-inclusive week at half price (details below). We encourage you to come for the whole week, but realize some of you may not be able to get away for that long. The weekly pricing is the same whether you're coming for the full 5 nights or less so we encourage people to come for as many days as they can.
Our MEA Core Curriculum
Our Airbnb “Early Elders” Curriculum
Chip will host an experience designed for this group that guides and supports you to:
Workshop Agenda & Flow
What's Included
Getting Here
To help you plan your trip, book your flights in and out of the Los Cabos International Airport (SJD). Our amazing Hospitality Team will coordinate your ground transportation on your behalf.
Consider it an investment in your future.
Envisioning yourself in Baja, but have questions?
Set up a call with our admissions team so we can help you through the process.
Consider it an investment in your future.
Discounted tuition for Early Airbnbers
All-inclusive cost: $3,600 single occupancy and $2,700 double occupancy (plus 7% lodging tax and service fee) - includes accommodation, food/drink, transportation, workshops/events, etc. This represents the 50% discount that MEA is generously offering for this group.
For those that are able, please consider making a donation to the MEA non-profit which offers scholarships to attend MEA.
Our idyllic oceanfront campus provides a rich container for deep learning in an intimate cohort setting. Thus, cancellations impact MEA unlike other travel destinations. If you must cancel, please see our policy under Payments and Cancellations.
Airbnb “Early Elders” Retreat @ MEA
By Chip Conley, Mark Levy
From Jan 20, 2025 - Jan 25, 2025
Deposit and Tuition Payment Policy
For full-tuition students, a 50% deposit is due at the time of your application. Your acceptance will be confirmed within 3-5 business days. If we’re unable to confirm acceptance, your deposit will be automatically refunded. The balance is due 30 days before the start of your workshop.
Our Refund Policy
As you read through our policies, please note we highly recommend purchasing Allianz travel insurance to cover unforeseen illness, travel complications, flight interruptions, and other emergencies. You can also get multiple quotes from Square Mouth.
Our 24-Hour Cancel Policy
Planning a trip to Mexico can be complicated. Rest assured you can cancel your workshop application and request a full refund of your deposit payment within 24 hours with no penalty.
Other Cancellation/Credit Requests
In the unlikely event MEA must cancel a workshop due to unforeseen circumstances, you will receive a full refund.
For participants needing to cancel after our 24-hour grace period, our policy is as follows:
30 Days or More Prior to Your Workshop Start Date
MEA understands life events can pop up, making traveling to your planned workshop not possible. Should you need to cancel your attendance to your planned workshop, MEA will provide a 1-time credit to move you to a new workshop within 3 months of the original workshop start date, based upon availability. There will be a $125 change fee added to your final invoice.
Should you not be able to attend one of the offered workshops or there is no remaining availability to move you, MEA will provide a refund minus a 5% administrative fee.
Less than 30 Days Prior to Your Workshop
Your deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable. We highly recommend purchasing travel insurance to protect you from unforeseen circumstances that may prevent you from attending for any reason including, but not limited to illness, travel interruptions, family emergencies, etc.
