What does a weekend in Medellín cost for a group of six?
Luis Häberlin·Research and strategy·Updated
A fully arranged three-day weekend in Medellín for up to six people is $6,500 USD as a group price, or about $1,083 each. Booked piece by piece, the individually published components come to roughly $2,380 before accommodation and table service. Flights are never included.
The short version
$6,500 USD, up to six people, three days and two nights. That is about $1,083 per person with the group full.
For comparison, the pieces that are published separately on this site add up to about $2,380, and that is before any accommodation or table service.
What is in it
- Airport pickup and return in a private car
- Two nights in a verified penthouse in El Poblado
- Two nights of table service
- A full private day in Guatapé
- A private chef cooking for the group one evening
- A local host reachable for the whole stay
What those pieces cost separately
The site publishes most of them on their own, so the comparison is checkable rather than rhetorical:
| Component | Published separately |
|---|---|
| Private Guatapé day | $690 |
| Guided night out | $890 |
| Private chef | $680 |
| Airport transfers, both ways | $120 |
| Subtotal | $2,380 |
That leaves roughly $4,120 covering two nights of a penthouse for six and two nights of table service, which is where most of the money in any Medellín weekend actually goes.
Where the money really goes
People assume the expensive part of a trip like this is the nightlife. It is usually the accommodation.
A verified apartment that genuinely sleeps six in El Poblado, with a working lift and a doorman at night, is not the same product as the cheapest listing with the same photos, and the gap between them is most of the difference between the two versions of this weekend. Table service is the second largest line, and it is the one where a foreign group walking up to a door pays the widest premium over the local rate.
What it does not include
Flights. Bottles beyond the agreed consumption. Anything the host has already said he does not arrange. The last one matters more than it looks: a package that quietly stays vague about its limits is a package that gets renegotiated on day two.
When you should not buy this
If there are two of you, do not. Build it out of the individual experiences instead and you will spend less for the same days.
The package earns its price somewhere around four people and clearly wins at six, because the costs that dominate it, a vehicle, an apartment, a driver, a chef, are close to fixed regardless of how many people are standing in the room.
Why the number is published at all
Every competitor in this market answers this question with "request a quote". The reason is not mystery, it is that a quote can be adjusted after they have seen who is asking.
A published number cannot. It is checkable, it is the same for everyone, and it filters out the conversations that were never going to end in a booking. That is worth more than the deals it loses.
Questions
- Is $6,500 per person or for the group?
- For the group, up to six people. That works out near $1,083 each at full occupancy. Every price on this site is a group price, which is unusual in this market and is deliberate: per-person pricing rewards padding the group.
- What happens if we are only four?
- The price does not drop, because the cost of a villa, a driver and a chef does not drop. At four people the per-head figure moves to $1,625, and below about four it is usually better to book the individual experiences.
- Can we swap parts of it?
- Yes. The components are published individually, so a group that does not want the Guatapé day or the chef can trade them for something else at the published difference rather than a renegotiated total.