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Family Holidays
Our team is full of family travellers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Couples Holidays
Our couple itineraries are paced perfectly for you to enjoy the very best a country has to offer whilst making sure you enjoy the quality time together you’re after.
Group Holidays
No matter what the size or the occasion, we’re well versed in taking larger groups of people away for those special adventures.
Honeymoons
We’ve been crafting dream itineraries for newly married couples for years. Learn more about the ins and outs of our honeymoon service here.
Multi Generational Trips
From very small to very big. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and our multi-generational holidays are perfectly designed to tick the boxes for the whole family.
Anniversary Trips
Whether you’re celebrating as a couple, or across multiple generations, our anniversary trips are crafted around the milestone – and the people sharing it.
Travel With Teens
This is a list of the very best places to travel with teenagers – one that’s crammed with bragging rights (for them) and bonding moments (for you).
Grown Up Family Holidays
As your children become adults, your family trips are also due to change and grow. These are our favourite trips for you and your grown up family.
Solo Holidays
Our travel experts have experienced the thrills and challenges of solo travel, all with the aim of producing some of our most immersive and exciting itineraries.
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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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We fell in love with it, somewhere between Ladakh and the crumbling red walls of Agra.
From the purple-tinted skies of the Himalayas to the tranquil backwaters of Kerala, India can seem overwhelming. Many clients enquiring about our luxury India holidays see it as the trip of a lifetime but feel lost about where to start. Our solution? Forget booking this yourself. Our destination experts craft entirely bespoke, private India itineraries tailored to who you are and what you want to experience, whether that’s witnessing the Taj Mahal at sunrise, exploring the mosaic Havelis of Udaipur, or spotting leopards on safari in Rajasthan.
Call our experts or schedule a video consultation for inspiration and expert guidance.
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Each child, plus one adult, gets Rs 1,500 and a designated lane in the market. The goal: buy as many items as possible. Past hauls have included a single lime, one egg, and a bidi. Chaotic, creative, and among the most genuinely fun hours\u2026
Enquire NowOn the rooftop of a private home in Jaipur, as the sun sets and kites fill the skyline, you'll join a local family and one of our most competitive guides for an afternoon of kite flying with chai. It sounds simple. It is. That's precisely\u2026
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India's trucks are rolling canvases, "Horn Please," painted cows, elephants, and symbols of devotion covering every surface. Join the painters as they work and add your own mark to one of the country's most iconic and most overlooked art f\u2026
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Learn Bollywood moves alongside a local troupe, high energy, optionally costumed, and genuinely infectious. Someone will be on hand to capture your best moments for an Instagram reel. No prior experience required. Enthusiasm, however, is n\u2026
Enquire NowJoin Mumbai's famous tiffin delivery men from the start of their day, riding the train as they head out on their routes, singing as they go. An insight into one of the city's most extraordinary logistical feats, led by the people who make\u2026
Enquire NowA proper, improvised game of cricket, jumpers for stumps, arranged with local children on a patch of land with the Taj Mahal behind you. There are very few places in the world where you can say that. Best with larger groups. Competitive co\u2026
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At the Dera Amer private estate, rescued elephants live alongside the mahouts who care for them. Spend time learning about the daily routines, the bathing rituals, and the bond between a mahout and his elephant, a relationship built over y\u2026
Enquire NowArrive at Thiksey Monastery at dawn to witness the early morning Buddhist prayers as the sun rises over the mountains. A private blessing ceremony in the Ghokang follows, conducted by a monk on duty, bestowing long life, good health, and p\u2026
View ItineraryA hands-on cooking lesson built around the spices and techniques of Rajasthani cuisine, grinding, tempering, rolling, tasting. You'll learn by doing, and eat what you make, and it will quietly reframe everything you thought you knew about\u2026
View ItineraryUse the below as inspiration, then get in touch to enquire about your dream India holiday.
India is a country that has long excelled in opulence and grandeur. Take the Taj Mahal for example – one of the greatest architectural achievements in the world, crafted from pure white marble in the 1630s and continuing to stun the world today. Modernity is creeping into Indian culture, fusing the country’s history and spirituality with high-end luxury hotels and hand-crafted itineraries fit for royalty.
The reigning mountainscape of Mother Earth’s kingdom, the great Himalayas come second to none. High in the hills and surrounded by remote villages and colourful monasteries, a tailor-made trip through the region of Ladakh is cultural immersion through peaks and valleys, apricot orchards and restorative hotels, at it’s very finest. Recount recent histories with monks and take to the sky for a private helicopter journey over the tallest summits in the world with the insider guidance of our on-site experts.
In the course of India’s history, there has been a multitude of various dynasties, empires, and diverse governing religions. These transitions in history have shaped India into a fascinating, storied country and the intricate architecture native to India’s culture lives through its temples, palaces, and ashrams. Dive deep into Old Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan for a behind the scenes look at India’s most elaborate royal palaces and beautiful buildings. Luxury hotels follow suit.
Stop and take a deep breath in Rishikesh. Not only the birthplace of yoga (according to the locals, at least), this northern city is the ideal base for visiting Swarg Ashram a little way up the Ganges. Only reachable by foot, at this traffic-free, clean-living retreat we’ll arrange a one-on-one appointment with an expert yogi who can perfect your form. After some relaxation, sit on the riverbank to watch a religious Hindu ritual of worship. The traditional Aarti ceremony sees a priest offering his blessings to those present using lamps and chants in praise of Mother Ganga.
India’s Pink City is an intoxicating mix of regal, salmon-coloured buildings, bustling bazaars, and the perfect balance of old and new. Foodies will love the contemporary cool of its buzzing Rajasthani restaurant, café, and bar culture while historians will lap up the awe-inspiring City Palace. The regal home of Jaipur’s royal family was built according to stunning Vastu design, with the traditional Indian architecture combining rich culture, nature and religion with scientific structure and symmetry. Inject harmony into your Jaipur break and retreat beyond the city’s walls, riding camel-back with a local guide through the golden sand dunes.
Kerala is the ideal respite from India’s relentless metropolises. Calm palm-tree-lined lagoons, quiet rice paddy plains, and uncluttered golden beaches invite you to unwind. Remember to tread carefully and not disrupt the local wildlife when the Muithanga Game Reserve keepers take your party on a private trek. Wander in peace with the local elephants or spot sleeping sloth bears nestling among the trees. In the evening, enjoy a private moonlit dinner on the black-sand beach of Thiruvambadi.
If you’re enthralled by the unique brand of magic produced by the Bollywood movie industry, allow us to pull some strings and arrange a backstage tour with exclusive access to the entire studio. Visit the film sets, play dress-up in costume departments, and even try your hand at recreating a song and dance routine with the actors of a recent blockbuster.
The Taj Mahal never disappoints. Make an early start and see the magnificent marble without the masses at sunrise. Journey through the fascinating wonder of the world with a private guide, discovering the history behind the 17th century mausoleum, built by Emperor Shah Jahal as a way of demonstrating the eternal love he held for his wife.
Named after the colour of the painted buildings sweeping across the old town, discover the Blue City like nothing else with an exclusive evening at the Mehrangarh Fort. Watch the city from above as the sun sets, casting enchanting colour over the sea of sapphire-coloured homes and slowly wander around the impressive grounds. Finish the evening with a romantic dinner and glass of champagne served by a team of local chefs.
Beyond India’s bustling cities, the lesser-explored national parks of Ranthambore and Bandhavgarh provide privileged access to Bengal tiger habitat. Here, expert naturalists guide guests on tiger safaris through carefully managed territories where these extraordinary cats maintain ancient hunting grounds. Our India specialists draw on decades of wildlife experience to time your visits for optimal viewing, selecting properties that combine refined comfort with authentic jungle immersion.
The Golden Triangle
Experience the three most-visited cities in India – and see them from a fresh angle.
They’re popular for a reason, the cities of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. Named ‘Golden’ for the immense richness of culture, history and wealth within them, we recommend that clients experience a little bit of each; with Agra, the former capital of the Moghul Empire (crumbling and stately); Delhi, with its unstoppable modern energy; or Jaipur, the desert capital of Rajasthan – famed for having the best bazaars in the country. We’ll ensure your guides are local insiders – from dawn to dusk.
The Himalayas
Purple, white, black – and the largest mountain range in the world.
For us, there are many ways to experience the Himalayas. To hike to the base-camp of Everest, stopping off at tea houses as you slowly acclimate to the rarified air. We prefer, however, the tranquil spirituality of Ladakh; a region with very few tourists and extremely traditional (albeit welcoming) villagers. Our local guides are villagers themselves and will introduce you to mountain scenery, Ladakhi cooking, and the monasteries of Phyang.
Rajasthan
From desert and island to the iconic Blue City.
Frequently, Rajasthan has topped our lists of India’s most fascinating regions. In Jawai you can trek and head out on safari in search of majestic tigers and elusive leopards. Across the deserts of Jaisalmer, you can travel by camel and study the historic Havelis of this historic city. In Jodhpur – the beautiful Blue City – you can stay at some of the country’s most regal Moghul-era hotels and luxury accommodations, such as the splendid Raas. It’s a lot. Gladly.
Taj Lake Palace, Udaipur
The Ananda, Himalayas
Sher Bagh, Ranthambore National Park
Ten to 14 days gives you the space to experience India without rushing. That’s enough time for the Golden Triangle — Delhi, Agra, Jaipur — plus a tiger safari or Kerala’s backwaters. Shorter trips suit focused Rajasthan itineraries; push further and the Himalayas or Varanasi open up.
October to March is peak season — cooler temperatures and clear skies, ideal for Rajasthan and wildlife safaris. The monsoon, running June to September, brings lush landscapes and far fewer visitors, and is particularly atmospheric in Kerala. Summer suits the Himalayas. India’s size means there’s always somewhere worth visiting, whatever time of year you go.
Yes — and travelling privately makes all the difference. You’ll have your own guide and driver throughout, vetted hotels, and logistics handled completely. Most travellers tell us India felt far easier than they expected. The key is expert planning and trusted local partners on the ground.
The Taj Mahal can’t be closed privately, but there are better ways to experience it than most visitors manage. Sunrise entry, precise timing, and guides who know exactly where to stand change the experience entirely. We also arrange visits to lesser-known Mughal sites nearby that most travellers miss.
Everything except international flights: handpicked hotels, private transfers, English-speaking guides, internal flights or trains, and experiences tailored to you — cooking classes, wildlife safaris, and everything in between. You’ll have 24/7 support and a detailed day-by-day plan. No hidden costs, no group tours.
The cost of a luxury India holiday with Black Tomato ranges in cost based on your travel preferences since all trips are customised. Final cost depends on duration, accommodation choices — heritage palaces versus boutique hotels — and your priorities. For an accurate quote built around your specific travel dates and preferences, submit an enquiry and we’ll connect you with one of our India Travel experts.
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