Small weddings, and quiet ones
Read this before you set a date
Naiko limits the number of guests who can attend a ceremony or celebration, at both properties. There is no marquee, no dance floor and no plan to build one. What there is: a cliff, an ocean, a building that photographs beautifully in any light, and complete privacy.
So the sequence matters. Talk to the manager before you book the stay, and certainly before you tell anyone a date. Functions, events and wedding activities all need approval in advance — if you skip that step, charges apply and the day gets harder than it needed to be.
Guests may also have up to four adult visitors during the day with prior approval, which covers a celebrant, a photographer and two witnesses more comfortably than most people expect.
Start that conversation
Elopements
Two people, a celebrant, and nobody's opinion about the seating plan.
The whole property is yours for the night, so the ceremony can happen wherever the light is best — the front deck, the cliff edge, or on the beach at the bottom of the track. Two-night minimum, which most couples extend.
Naiko Retreat, Deep Creek
Proposals
The most common reason people book one bedroom rather than three.
Sunset on the deck, the Futuro lit below, and no chance of a stranger walking through the shot. Tell us in advance and we will make sure nothing is scheduled that afternoon.
Naiko Retreat, Deep Creek
Milestone birthdays & family gatherings
When the guest list will not fit into six beds.
The Villa takes ten across four bedrooms with a great room built for everyone being in it at once. A private chef can cook in the kitchen, or Whalers is a five-minute walk down the hill.
Naiko at the Bluff, Encounter Bay
Retreats & wellness weekends
Naiko has hosted curated retreats run by outside operators.
Exclusive use, a kitchen that can feed a group properly, yoga on the deck, and treatment rooms — including, at Deep Creek, the Futuro. If you run retreats and are looking at the Fleurieu, start with an enquiry rather than a booking.
Both properties
Exclusive use is the whole proposition
Nobody arrives at eleven to service the room next door. There is no reception, no other guests and no schedule but yours — which is the reason retreat operators keep coming back to both houses.
