In an upcoming adventure I am writing-- the PCs are visiting a "Wizards Retreat"- a sort of hidden vacation paradise for spell-casters. In the adventure, they are all teenagers with an arcane background who are part of a chaperoned school group.

I was trying to put together some of the "attractions" of the resort that the PCs might encounter.  The Retreat is well-hidden from outsiders in the arid mountains (The Marching Mountains of Calimshan if you know Forgotten Realms), so that's the terrain/environment.

Here's what I have so far:
Swimming. (I was going to have some kind of swimming pool- maybe with some kind of elemental waters.)
Sunbathing.
Hunting
Hawking (that is, hunting with a hawk)
Theater of Illusions
Dancing Girls
Bound Demon Servants (I might just change this and the dancing girls to tiefling/human slaves)
Extensive Library
Arcane Sanctum
Sky-sailing (maybe?)
 
Anyone else have any ideas?

I was thinking I might have a bit where each room get's it's own unseen servant, and two of the PCs get one that seems to be broken and does stuff wrong.

There could be a park with all sorts of fantastical animals, a zoo of sorts.

How about using elementals for some effects, like waterfalls flowing upwards, flames that are alive, etc? It's aesthetics, but the place's appearance is part of the experience in a resort/retreat like this, isn't it?

How about some medical/relaxing uses of stone to mud, or teleportations? How about being polymorphed into a placid creature (a jelly?) for relaxation?

Showers of ice or steaming water? Elementals massaging you as you take them?

Quote from: Abyssal Maw;335003I was thinking I might have a bit where each room get's it's own unseen servant, and two of the PCs get one that seems to be broken and does stuff wrong.

That is a really cool idea to riff.  It become something like in the movie Poltergeist where they turn around and all the furniture is stacked wrong, or re-arranged.  It re-hangs wet towels and/or dirty towels.  It makes the bed in reverse where the sheets are on top of the blankets.  It misses the glass when pouring, and pours in the lap of the student (this would be especially good with a hot drink like coffee or tea).

Well, instead of a horse riding trail you could have some other exotic fantasy creature riding trail.  Like charmed Dire Wolves or something.

Quote from: Drohem;335016Well, instead of a horse riding trail you could have some other exotic fantasy creature riding trail.  Like charmed Dire Wolves or something.

Well, it's high in the mountains and we do have hippogriffs in LFR so I was thinking of maybe doing trained Hippogriffs- like each PC would get a choice of an activity to do. One PC might want to sunbathe, one might go Hippogriff riding.. I was going to have some fun little scene happen for each individual PC.

The real adventure happens at the resort that night when bad guys attempt to kidnap another guest and the PCs get stuck in the middle of it.

Quote from: Drohem;335011That is a really cool idea to riff.  It become something like in the movie Poltergeist where they turn around and all the furniture is stacked wrong, or re-arranged.  It re-hangs wet towels and/or dirty towels.  It makes the bed in reverse where the sheets are on top of the blankets.  It misses the glass when pouring, and pours in the lap of the student (this would be especially good with a hot drink like coffee or tea).

It would also be cool if this could be used to foreshadow some part of the plot.  Like, the PCs could try to research a way to fix the unseen servants in the library, and then stumble across a passage where they are only known to malfunction in the presence of the Gem of Vile Superduper Evillness or something, which the main villain possesses.  

what about some cool springs/blue holes to beat the heat?

what about some sort of thermal updrafts (perhaps over the springs) that young wizards can use their flowing robes to "ride"?

Puzzle games, chess, and riddles with sphinxes or other intelligent creatures

a dungeon tour of the resting places of some of the most famous wizards (with maybe the PCs getting separated from the main group and having some odd encounters in the tomb)

Or maybe not the resting places but perhaps memorials to great wizards with illusions depicting their greatest deeds

An interactive dragon-slaying class with a fake dragon in a fake dragon's lair.  The class would cover the different types of colored dragons and how to best slay them and defend against breath weapons. The characters can open the dragon up, examine its insides, sift through its fake treasure, etc.  This would also be a cool place to hide a real magic item.  

perhaps a game of quidditch?  

Pete