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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.
“To wake at dawn on a hillside and look out on a world for which I had no words”
That feeling hasn’t changed. Italy still stops you mid-sentence — whether it’s the light on Lake Como, a plate of hand-rolled pasta in Bologna, or the Amalfi Coast curving away beneath you. France does the same thing differently: champagne cellars you’d never find alone, private access to the Louvre after hours, lavender fields that stretch past the edge of what you can see. Greece is sun-bleached ruins and Aegean blues, with islands most visitors never reach. Portugal has Lisbon’s quiet confidence and the Douro Valley’s vineyards spilling down to the river.
Then there’s the Europe that surprises people. Croatia‘s coastline rivals anything in the Mediterranean. Switzerland is train journeys through the Alps that redefine what a journey can feel like. Spain is secret pintxos bars in Bilbao and flamenco in Seville. And further north and east — Scandinavia’s northern lights, the baroque grandeur of Prague and Budapest — Europe keeps going long after you think you’ve seen it all. The continent is smaller than you’d expect, which means combining two or three countries in a single trip isn’t just possible — it’s how the best European holidays are built.
Europe is the destination everyone thinks they know — which is exactly why the right guidance matters. Our specialists have spent time in every country we recommend, and they know the difference between the hotel that photographs well and the one that actually delivers. We build multi-country European itineraries that flow naturally — Italy into Switzerland by rail, France paired with Spain or Portugal, island-hopping across Greece with private boats and local guides who grew up on the water. Every itinerary is built from scratch around your group, your pace, and how you want the trip to feel.
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A 30-minute drive from central Budapest, the Royal Palace of Gödöllő was the favorite retreat of Empress Elisabeth of Austria — Sissi — and it shows. The baroque palace has been carefully restored, its royal apartments returned to much of\u2026
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Two buildings, two very different centuries, one long look at what shaped this city. Buda Castle sits high above the Danube, UNESCO-listed and carrying the weight of medieval Hungary in its walls. Your guide traces the history of the Castl\u2026
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Hungarian food doesn't get the attention it deserves, and this tour sets out to correct that. Moving through markets, ruin bars, and the Jewish Quarter, you'll eat and drink your way through a culinary tradition that is earthy, generous, a\u2026
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Budapest splits neatly in two: Buda on the hill, Pest on the plain, the Danube running between them. This tour covers both. The cobblestoned lanes of the 13th-century Castle District, the gothic spires of Matthias Church, the grand sweep o\u2026
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Snowshoeing through the forests around Luleå, an age-old Nordic practice that opens up terrain otherwise unreachable on foot. Animal tracks, untouched snow, and the kind of stillness that only comes this far north. Ice fishing follows, wit\u2026
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A husky sled ride through the wilderness around Luleå, in Sweden's far north. The dogs do the work; you take in the snow-covered landscape, the pace, and the silence. A straightforward encounter with the Nordic winter that is difficult to\u2026
Enquire NowStockholm's medieval core, explored with a guide who actually knows it. Narrow cobblestone streets, colorful merchant houses, hidden courtyards, and the stories behind them, from the Royal Palace to corners that most visitors walk straight\u2026
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A private yacht through Stockholm's archipelago, a network of 30,000 islands stretching out from the city into open water. Your captain navigates between smaller isles, each with its own character, while you take in the maritime landscape\u2026
Enquire NowBelow the surface of Cappadocia, early Christians carved out an entire city. Kaymakli Underground City runs four levels deep, its narrow passages built to shelter thousands. Above ground, Ortahisar's rock castle commands the valley, and Uc\u2026
Enquire NowThe alarm goes off before dawn, which feels unreasonable until the balloon lifts and the landscape opens beneath you. Fairy chimneys, cave-studded valleys, ancient rock-cut churches, all of it spread out below as the sun begins to change t\u2026
Enquire NowA day that begins in Beşiktaş, moves across the Bosphorus, and ends in a neighborhood where Jews, Christians, and Muslims once shared the same streets. Along the way: menemen at a market breakfast spot, bal kaymak from a bakery that's been\u2026
Enquire NowA tour through Istanbul's Islamic heritage, from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in a 1524 Ottoman palace to the Sokullu Mehmet Pasha Complex, Sehzade Mosque, and the sacred Eyup Sultan Mosque. Ends with Turkish coffee on Pierre Loti\u2026
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A private visit to CERN, where the world's first particle accelerator was built. A guided tour of the structure, an immersive audiovisual presentation, and access to the Microcosm exhibition and the Globe of Science and Innovation. The sci\u2026
Enquire NowFor over 140 years, Johanna Spyri's Heidi has captured imaginations around the world. In Maienfeld, the village that inspired the story, you can walk the trails, visit the Heidi House, and step into the Swiss Alps landscape that made it al\u2026
Enquire NowA tour of the East Side Gallery, the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, followed by a hands-on graffiti workshop with experienced street artists. Learn the techniques, spray your own design, and leave with a genuine understandin\u2026
Enquire NowAn immersive journey through Bavarian folklore, fairy tales, and regional history, with a professional photographer on hand to capture the moments. A good option for families who want more than a standard museum visit, and more than a stan\u2026
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Choose your flavors, lemon, mango, chocolate, pistachio, and make two to three varieties from scratch in this Munich workshop. You'll learn the science of ice cream alongside the craft, and taste everything you make.
Enquire NowBoard a restored Istrian wooden sailboat for a cruise along the Slovenian coast, cold cuts, champagne, and a sun deck, stopping to swim in secluded bays and eat lunch at anchor. A day that moves at the pace of the wind, and feels entirely\u2026
Enquire NowSwitzerland was made for the window seat. The Glacier Express carves through Alpine passes between Zermatt and St Moritz, and the Bernina Express crosses into Italy on Europe’s highest transalpine railway — snow one minute, Lake Como the next. In Norway, the Flåm Railway drops through fjord country so dramatic it barely looks real. And France has the Orient Express, where the golden age of rail travel never actually ended. We build train journeys into multi-country European itineraries as a matter of course — because in Europe, the journey between places is often the best part of the trip.
Hand-rolled pasta in a Bologna kitchen. A private champagne blending session in the Marne Valley. Secret pintxos bars in Bilbao where the locals outnumber the tourists ten to one. Europe’s food and wine culture runs deep, and we know where to find the best of it — from truffle hunts in Italy and vineyard tours in Portugal‘s Douro Valley to Michelin-starred plates in Slovenia and cooking classes on the islands of Greece. Whether you want a trip built entirely around food and wine or simply want the right restaurant on the right night, our specialists know which doors to open.
Everyone knows Italy, France, and Greece. We love them too — but some of our favourite European trips take people somewhere they hadn’t considered. Croatia‘s Adriatic coastline rivals the Amalfi and comes with a fraction of the crowds. Hungary‘s thermal baths and ruin bars make Budapest one of Europe’s most underrated cities. Romania has wild Carpathian forests and medieval towns that feel untouched. Georgia sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, with ancient wine traditions and landscapes that stop you in your tracks. And further north, Iceland‘s glaciers and geothermal valleys, Finland‘s northern lights, and Sweden‘s frozen wilderness prove that luxury European travel doesn’t stop at the Mediterranean. If you’re open to it, we’ll show you the Europe most people miss.
Northern Europe
Kingdoms of snow, cities of culture. Fog-shrouded islands whose skies – by night – come alive with the colour of the northern lights. Norway. Sweden. Finland. Lapland. Denmark. Iceland. This magnetic region offers some of the most mesmerising adventures in the world. Think husky sledding across crisp white snow, resting weary bones in natural hot springs, star gazing from your private glass igloo. All you have to do is ask.
The Mediterranean
The ruins of the ancient Aegean. The Renaissance domes and Byzantine basilicas. Craggy, golden cliffs that fold into sparkling waters. Olive oil, roasting meat – and the ‘wine dark’ sea of Homer and the ships that sail across it. From the canals of Venice to the island of Sifnos, here is a world of golden altars, of trattorias and tavernas, and of wine that’s grown (and bottled) just a stone’s throw from where you drink it.
Central and Western Europe
Romance, history, language and literature. Think of Ella Fitzgerald and Luis Armstrong, singing: ‘April in Paris, this is a feeling’. Trains that wind their way into the Alps. The castles of Bavaria. The golden towers of the Alhambra. Food and elegance. Art galleries and tree-lined boulevards. This is a feeling. But it’s so much more. Looking for a luxury private itinerary to Europe? Start here.
Casa Angelina, Amalfi Coast
Kalesma, Mykonos
Arctic Bath, Swedish Lapland
Combining multiple countries in one European trip is not only possible, it’s one of the region’s greatest strengths. The proximity of destinations and ease of border crossings make multi-country travel feel natural rather than complicated. Pairing France and Italy, or Spain and Portugal, flows beautifully over 10-14 days, while more ambitious routes combining Western and Eastern Europe open up real contrast and discovery. The key is being honest about pace: two or three countries done well beats five countries done hurriedly.
The best time to visit Europe depends on where you’re going, but late spring (May to June) and early autumn (September to October) offer the best balance of good weather, manageable crowds, and value across most of the continent. Summer is peak season across Western Europe, which means higher prices and busier sites. Scandinavia is best visited in summer when daylight is at its most dramatic, while the Alps and parts of Eastern Europe come into their own from December through March for ski and winter scenery.
For a luxury trip to Europe, 7-10 days works well for a single-country itinerary focused on one region, while 12-16 days is the sweet spot for multi-country travel, giving you enough time to settle into each destination rather than simply pass through. Longer trips of three weeks or more suit travellers who want to move slowly, go deeper, and blend cities with countryside or coast.
For a luxury trip, Western Europe is the classic choice: world-renowned cuisine, iconic architecture, established luxury infrastructure, and bucket-list experiences that are hard to find elsewhere. Eastern Europe offers something distinct in return: lesser-visited cities with real character, striking landscapes, deep cultural heritage, and a genuine sense of discovery. Luxury in Eastern Europe is growing rapidly, with excellent boutique hotels in cities like Ljubljana, Tallinn, and Tbilisi. For travellers who want to move beyond the well-trodden path without sacrificing comfort, it’s a compelling alternative.
The cost of a luxury European trip depends on where you go, how long you travel for, and what the trip includes. Western Europe — Italy, France, Greece — carries higher costs for equivalent luxury than Eastern Europe, where destinations like Slovenia, Czechia, and Georgia offer exceptional value. Private villa stays, after-hours museum access, and multi-country itineraries carry additional cost. We price every luxury Europe holiday individually based on your group, dates, and the experiences you want — with no planning fees. Speak to one of our specialists to discuss what your trip should look like.
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