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We had our retreat at my parent's house (slightly boring location, but its all good), as Nicole just said. I think the BEST thing you can do to plan it is to e-mail your chapter and see what THEY are interested in learning about. For instance, in my chapter, I would overhear sisters saying completely crazy things about J-Board (i.e you can't get called to j-board if you never show up to anything because, if you're not there, you can not be given the letter). So, e-board took a couple of minutes out of our retreat (which is always the night before the chapter retreat) and planned a short and funny skit about 3 sisters being called to j-board, what goes on in j-board, different things you can get called in for (one sister was there for attendance, one for inappropriate dress at a meeting, and one for getting drunk in letters at a party). Sisters in the chapter had also e-mailed me about wanting to talk about COB and things like that.
At a retreat, you should always do calender planning and goal setting, that way the entire chapter has a say in the calender- so semester attendance should be high if the chapter as a whole set up the events. An important part of running a retreat is making sure there is a balance of fun and work. If you're going to do goal setting, maybe there should be a fun ice breaker either directly before or directly after.
I really don't know what kind of advice you want. I hope that helped a little bit! Use the retreat as a time to discuss last semester. Ask people what they liked, didn't like, would want to change, etc and focus the retreat on setting goals to solve any issues that you guys are having.
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