5 min readEvent planners looking to host memorable meetings, networking sessions, or conference events are increasingly turning to one of the region’s fastest-growing venue trends: competitive socialising. Blending interactive games with stylish hospitality spaces, these venues offer a refreshing alternative to traditional meeting rooms—encouraging connection, collaboration, and genuine engagement among delegates.
From post-conference networking to energising breakout sessions, competitive socialising venues provide a dynamic environment where attendees can relax, interact, and build relationships in a more natural way. With Bristol and Bath already renowned for their vibrant culture, excellent transport links, and diverse venue landscape, incorporating a competitive socialising experience into your event programme can help elevate your conference and leave a lasting impression on delegates.
Sixes Social Cricket
Sixes Bristol is a vibrant, competitive socialising venue located on Bristol’s Harbourside, combining high-energy cricket batting nets with great food, drinks and a lively atmosphere. Sixes offers a unique, interactive experience that encourages connection, friendly competition and memorable moments — all in a central waterside location.
The cricket batting nets are suitable for all abilities, with adjustable difficulty levels and multiple game modes, meaning no prior cricket experience is necessary. This makes Sixes an ideal option for corporate groups looking to add a fun and engaging activity to their event programme.
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Roxy Lanes
Located in central Bristol, Roxy Lanes is far more than just a bowling alley. The venue offers a wide selection of games suitable for all abilities, including American pool, shuffleboard, beer pong, batting cages and duck-pin bowling, alongside a menu of food and drinks.
With a large, flexible space for groups, Roxy Lanes can tailor bookings to suit client needs, offering bespoke games packages, catering and drinks options for corporate events, team socials and conference fringe activities.
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Putt Above
Located in Bristol city centre, Putt Above welcomes guests into a vibrant, prohibition-themed cocktail bar and kitchen. Serving handcrafted burgers, elevated small plates and signature drinks, it provides the perfect backdrop for an evening of fun, competition and socialising.
The venue features mini golf lanes, interactive darts with smart dartboard technology and the Putt Above Experience — a premium social playground featuring tech-driven games that are perfect for corporate entertainment and networking events.
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Flight club
Flight Club has reinvented darts for the 21st century. Located in a spectacular venue on Corn Street in Bristol, the space can host up to 200 guests.
The fairground-inspired Social Darts bar features seven oches (playing areas), where groups can enjoy fast-paced multiplayer games alongside expertly crafted cocktails and delicious food packages. Whether guests are seasoned darts players or complete beginners, the interactive format ensures everyone can join in and enjoy the competition.
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Mendip Adventure
Nestled in the Mendip Hills, Mendip Activity Centre offers a dynamic setting for team-building events and corporate away days.
The site includes an indoor residential centre, three canvas villages and Mendip Basecamp, an adventure campsite. Across the surrounding landscape, more than 30 outdoor activities are available, including rock climbing, caving, skiing, tobogganing, snowboarding, archery, axe throwing, kayaking, canoeing and paddleboarding.
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Mojo Active
Mojo Active is one of Bristol’s largest outdoor activity centres, set within 80 acres of private fields and woodland near Cribbs Causeway.
With more than 25 activities available — including high ropes, archery, axe throwing, den building and a full military-style assault course — Mojo Active provides an exciting way to incorporate team building into an event programme. The venue also offers team sports such as dodgeball, zorb football and football golf, making it a great option for breaking the ice and energising delegates.
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Wild Swim Bike Run
Wild Swim Bike Run is Bath's leading team building & outdoor events provider with private event sites located throughout Bath with full corporate hospitality packages for up to 200 people.
They provide a range of competitive activities such as combat archery, axe throwing and escape rooms as well as water sports, bike hire and themed walking routes.
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CityDays
CityDays offer urban adventures through a unique part treasure hunt, part outdoor escape room experience. In teams, the experience requires players to solve puzzles against the clock as they journey around the city and discover its history and culture. These games are available in both Bath and Bristol city centres.
CityDays creates the ultimate icebreaker for your corporate group and allows them to compete whilst embracing and learning about the city's stories and secrets.
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Go Quest Adventures
Go Quest Adventures is an app-lead quest experience, available in both Bristol and Bath, which guides delegates through iconic city locations whilst they compete in teams to solve clues whilst discovering the city in a memorable way.
Go Quests provide a fun and flexible way for attendees to build connections and engage with key messages outside the traditional conference setting through their fully customisable quests tailored to your organisation.
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How can Visit West Convention Bureau help?
Each of these suppliers offers activities and games to add a twist to your next event in Bristol, Bath and the surrounding area.
The Visit West Convention Bureau can provide impartial advice and help you find the perfect venue for your event in Bristol, Bath and the surrounding region. To speak to the team, contact events@visitwest.co.uk — they will be happy to help.
