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Safari Holidays
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
Remote Destinations
We’ve chosen these experiences, destinations and adventures to bring you closer to the great outdoors. This is your ticket to our wonderful world.
Unusual Holidays
The world may be conquered, but enough secrets remain to keep us up all night, dreaming of ways to whisk you off to the most unique corners of the globe. Where first?
Adventure Holidays
Hike across mountain ridgelines, scramble across glaciers and kayak down rivers – these trips are designed to immerse you in vast wildernesses and ancient cultures.
Beach Holidays
Porcelain shores, perfect seas and swaying palms; the allure of a beach break is hard to ignore. Which is why we handpick the best beachfront boltholes to offer you…
Food Holidays
Food and travel have long gone hand in hand, and we have put together some mouth-watering trips that capture the palate, of countries across the world. Bon appétit.
Slow Travel
As the world becomes busier, slow travel has never felt so fitting. Whether it’s meeting fishermen in Maine or learning the Dukha-way in Mongolia, take time to connect.
Eclipse Holidays
Eclipse travel celebrates our place in the wider cosmos. Let us take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in style.
Proposal Service
Found the one and want to propose in style? The moment will be a memory forever and we’re here to help you make sure it’s the most perfect moment for you and your loved one.
Train Travel
“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” We’ve all heard this, haven’t we? And with these captivating luxury train journeys, we’ll show you the joy to be found travelling across the world by rail.
The Pursuit of Feeling
From impassioned and emotive journeys, to podcasts, you’ll find something to move you and something to soothe you. We want to fire your heart and provide food for your soul.
Set Jetting
Swapping salubrious saloons and questionable lodgings for sumptuous hotels and eye-opening experiences, each of our show-stopping journeys will take you behind scenes of some of TV’s most awe-inspiring locations.
See You in the Moment
You need only bring yourselves – your people, your histories. We’ll provide the moment itself. The anticipation, the togetherness, the memory. This is something to savour. This is something to remember.
Field Trip
Education begins in the classroom, but it’s IRL that younger generations put their lessons to the test. Field Trip is a curriculum of educational encounters around the world.
Take me on a Story
A series of family experiences celebrating the transformative power of the books we loved when we were young, and the stories our children have come to adore.
Get Lost
Designed as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, train with elite survival experts before traversing a polar, jungle, coastal, mountain or desert region in your mission back to civilisation.
Blink
The ultimate luxury camping retreat. From the Sahara desert to the Andean Mountains, with Blink anywhere you can envisage it, we will create it.
Bring it Back
Bring It Back will embed you in an entirely different way of thinking, and of learning about a culture directly from its experts on the ground. You may be surprised by what you discover.
The Great American View
This series of breathtaking journeys culminate in some of America’s most legendary sights. They are the places you’ve always sought out, and now it’s your time to find them.
James Bond
We are proud to have been selected as the official travel partner to curate James Bond inspired trips.
Agatha Christie
We’ve been hand-picked by Agatha Christie Limited to help bring Agatha’s world-famous Grand Tour to life through a series of episodic trips across Africa, Australasia and North America, and a unique prelude in London.
Tasting Notes
Eating at a Michelin – starred restaurant is one thing. But now you can learn about the country through the lens of some of the most critically acclaimed chefs in the world, by travelling with them on the ultimately culinary experience
Take the Open Road with Auberge
With the iconic hotel brand Auberge Resorts, we’ve created a new series of tailormade, luxurious road trip itineraries. Emblems of America’s most iconic landscapes, regions, and people.
Remarkable Drives of Discovery with Auberge
Following on from the much lauded ‘Take the Open Road’ series, here’s five brand-new bespoke, multi-destination trips created with our friends at Auberge Resorts Collection. Delve deeper than ever before.
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Explore our inspiring experiences based on when you want to travel and how you want to feel.
“Being lost in Australia gives you a lovely sense of security”
For travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the wilderness of Australasia was a source of great comfort. Over the years, we’ve also discovered that feeling across the islands in Oceania. From Australia and New Zealand to Fiji and The Cook Islands. Each one is full of luxurious comforts and tantalising delights. Whether you’re stargazing in the outback, feeling the thrill of swimming with whale sharks, or enjoying a glass of wine inside an active volcano. Adventure and relaxation go hand in hand here. This is a continent full of opposites. And you know what they say about that.
Since 2005 we have taken travellers to Australasia’s most extraordinary corners: a private dawn helicopter above Uluru before any other visitor is in the air, the Milford Track in New Zealand with a guide who has walked it three hundred times and still finds things to show you, a catamaran charter through French Polynesia’s outer atolls where no resort has been built. We didn’t buy this access; we earned it through two decades of relationships with guides, outfitters, and operators across the region. We build every luxury Australasia holiday around you: your pace, your group, and how far from ordinary life you want to go.
Inspiration to get under the skin of Australasia & Oceania
Call us to add any of these experiences to your trip or for a consultation
A private cruise to Waiheke Island, swimming, snorkelling, and paddleboarding on the way, followed by lunch at Man O' War Bay and an afternoon zipline descent through native forest to the beachfront tasting room. Adults can finish with a w\u2026
View ItineraryPaddle a traditional Maori waka through the Abel Tasman, beginning and ending with a karakia for protection. Teamwork on the water, connected to a seafaring heritage that carried people across the Pacific for thousands of years.
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A privately chartered expedition to New Zealand's Poor Knights Islands on a luxury motor yacht, with diving, a gourmet beach dinner on Great Barrier Island, a film night beneath the stars, and a p?whiri welcoming ceremony at the Bay of Isl\u2026
Enquire NowA full day by helicopter, White Island's sulphur crater and gannet colony, a landing on the East Coast at Maketu for a cultural encounter with former All Black Deon Muir, a traditional hangi feast, and time on the ocean with local guides b\u2026
Enquire NowAn afternoon on the Hawea River, grade two rapids, swimming holes, rock jumps, and rope swings, followed by a private sauna, a shower, and a chef-prepared dinner under a Nordic tipi by the river. An evening that's hard to improve on, and h\u2026
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A full day on the outer reef, guided by a qualified crew through coral gardens, with the ecosystem explained as you go. The Great Barrier Reef as it should be experienced, without the day-tripper crowds.
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The only way to reach Heart Island is by helicopter. Land beside Heart Reef, join a glass-bottom boat tour, snorkel in the lagoon, and return to Hamilton Island with champagne and a view that almost nobody ever sees.
Enquire NowCo-curated with Maggie Beer, the matriarch of Australian home cooking, this two-week trip moves through the Barossa Valley, Tasmania, and the forests of Adelaide. Harvest fresh produce, shuck oysters, forage for a degustation dinner, and j\u2026
View ItineraryPaddle through Cape Byron Marine Park, home to bottlenose dolphins, humpback whales, and three species of sea turtle, with guides who know these waters intimately. The session ends with your guide teaching you to surf your kayak back to sh\u2026
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Access to the parts of the Sydney Opera House the public never sees: the scenery dock, the orchestra pit, rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, and the stage itself. Best experienced early, before the day's rehearsals begin, when the building f\u2026
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Start with a walk along a dry riverbed enclosed entirely by rainforest, then switch to river sleds for the return, gliding through calm stretches under the canopy before picking up pace through faster currents. An unusual way to spend an a\u2026
View ItineraryAustralia rewards those who go beyond the cities. A private vessel moored off Lizard Island, with the outer Great Barrier Reef visible from the deck. A dawn helicopter over Uluru, the desert light turning the rock from ochre to deep red as you circle. Whale sharks in the turquoise waters off Ningaloo Reef, swimming at close range with something that dwarfs everything around it. Swimming with the world’s rarest dolphins off the coast of Western Australia. A three-course meal in a canyon in Karijini. The wildlife and landscapes here are genuinely extraordinary — and the experiences we build into itineraries make it possible to see them without the crowds.
Fiordland from a helicopter is a different country to the one most visitors see. The vertical rock faces. The waterfalls coming off the peaks in hundreds of threads. Milford Sound from the air and then by boat in the same afternoon. New Zealand’s South Island rewards every perspective. In the North, the volcanic plateau around Taupo. A private yacht charter through the Bay of Islands. The vineyards of Waiheke Island by seaplane and then by bicycle. We design every New Zealand itinerary around the conviction that the country’s most remarkable moments come when you slow down, go further, and let a guide who knows these places take you there.
Fiji, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands. The Pacific at its most unhurried. A private catamaran through French Polynesia’s outer atolls, stopping where no schedule dictates. Snorkelling in the Aitutaki lagoon at low tide, the water so shallow and clear it looks like someone forgot to put the sea in. Unearthing black pearls with local fishermen off Moorea. A week on a private island in Fiji with nothing required of you except showing up for dinner. We know the islands that deliver and the ones that disappoint, the resorts worth the flight and the ones to skip. We’ll tell you honestly which is which.
Australia
A country so vast it defies a single description. The Great Barrier Reef explored by private vessel out of Lizard Island, its coral alive with color at every depth. The ancient Daintree — the world’s oldest rainforest — where two World Heritage sites meet at the water’s edge. A hot-air balloon drifting over red desert at dawn. A swim with the world’s rarest dolphins off the coast of Western Australia. Sydney’s Opera House on a warm evening. Australia doesn’t ask to be taken in all at once. It asks you to stay longer.
New Zealand
Two islands that pack more drama per mile than almost anywhere on earth. A helicopter dropping into Fiordland, waterfalls threading down vertical rock faces into dark water below. Mitre Peak reflected in the stillness of Milford Sound. A jet boat tearing up glacier-fed rivers through Mt Aspiring National Park. A wine tour through the vineyards of Waiheke Island as the sun goes down over the Hauraki Gulf. New Zealand rewards the adventurous and the quietly curious in equal measure — often on the same afternoon.
The Pacific Islands
Fiji. French Polynesia. The Cook Islands. The Pacific at its most unhurried and its most extraordinary. Overwater bungalows where the lagoon shifts through every shade of blue you’ve ever imagined. Snorkeling through the Aitutaki lagoon. Yacht cruises through the Society Islands, stopping at Taha’a where vanilla plantations scent the air and manta rays move silently beneath the hull. Unearthing black pearls with local fishermen off Moorea. The Pacific doesn’t rush. Neither should you.
Longitude 131°, Uluru
Huka Lodge, Taupo
Park Hyatt, Sydney
For a single-destination luxury Australasia holiday — Australia or New Zealand on its own — two to three weeks gives you enough time to move between distinct regions without feeling rushed. Australia rewards at least two and a half weeks if you want to combine the east coast with the outback and the reef. New Zealand’s South Island alone benefits from ten days to two weeks. Adding the Pacific islands — Fiji, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands — extends a trip naturally if time allows. We design every itinerary around your available dates and what you most want to experience.
Yes, and it’s a natural combination. Australia and New Zealand are connected by short flights and contrast sharply in character — Australia’s scale and its ancient landscapes against New Zealand’s dramatic fjords and concentrated adventure. Adding the Pacific islands extends the trip towards three to four weeks. We handle all the routing and connections so the journey feels like a single coherent experience rather than three separate trips stitched together.
The best time for a luxury Australasia holiday depends on where you are going. Australia’s east coast and Queensland are most pleasant April to October — dry, warm, and ideal for reef access. The red centre is best April to September when temperatures are manageable. New Zealand’s South Island peaks December to March for hiking and outdoor access, though ski season (July to September) has its own appeal. Fiji and the Cook Islands are welcoming year-round, with May to October the drier season. We factor all of this into every itinerary.
For a first luxury Australasia holiday, Australia is the most compelling entry point — the scale and variety are extraordinary, from Uluru at dawn and the Daintree Rainforest to the Whitsundays’ island chains and Sydney’s harbor. New Zealand suits those drawn to dramatic landscape and outdoor adventure: the Fiordland fjords, the volcanic plateau, the wine country of Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay. The Pacific islands — Fiji, French Polynesia — are the right choice for those who want pure island luxury as the main event. Wherever you start, we’ll design the itinerary around what matters to you — and tell you honestly where to go next time.
The cost of a luxury Australasia holiday depends on where you go, how long you travel for, and the style of experience. A single-city Australia food and wine trip costs differently to a fly-in wilderness stay in the red center, a South Island helicopter circuit, or a private yacht charter through the outer atolls of French Polynesia. Multi-country itineraries combining Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific islands carry additional logistics and duration. We price every luxury Australasia holiday individually based on your group, dates, accommodation preferences, and the experiences you want — with no planning fees. Speak to one of our specialists to discuss what the right trip looks like.
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