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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 and our Feelings Engine, 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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Despite deep cultural heritage, stunning landscapes and an adventurous appetite, Guatemala remains a relative secret to the outside world. So, whether camping beneath the stars in remote Mayan temples, paddling in isolation across Lake Atitlan or sharing a cup of freshly-brewed coffee with the locals, a tailormade holiday in Guatemala offers unique insight into a destination few others know anything about.
Known as the “lost city” of the Maya, the archaeological site of El Mirador remained hidden for centuries; many of its stones fallen or vine-coated in the deep growth of the Guatemalan jungle. But since the discovery of these ruins in 1885, there’s much to see, and feel, and hear in this mystical place. There are no roads that lead here, so we’ll take you trekking through tropical forest – à la Indiana Jones – for five intrepid days, camping each night in the heart of the wild. And when you arrive, you’ll delve into the site’s mysteries over dinner with an expert archaeologist.
Like Colombia, its bigger and beefier neighbour, Guatemala is an area only gently experiencing the first serious pangs of travel. It is unknown but warm; boutique rather than bossy; easy to get around and perfect for a short luxury trip. Without chain hotels and a landscape that includes stately volcanoes, beautiful lake Atitlan, charming colonial towns with cobbled streets, and the massive Tikal National Park – with its adventure-goading ancient ruins – it’s a true feast for the senses. So eat up.
A luxury itinerary around Guatemala is an ideal way to experience a country that hasn’t been hollowed-out by chains and mass tourism. Experiencing the jungle ruins of Tikal – stepping through warm-moist hanging vines, and glimpsing ancient grey-green stone emerging from between the trees – is a truly heart-stopping moment, fit for any Indiana Jones film. Except the new one. We’re not fans.
Unfiltered and boutique is the way that Guatemala does its hotels; passing up chain hotels for small boutiques that still uphold levels of luxury service that you’d expect anywhere else in the world. Whether you stay among the cobbled streets and brightly coloured colonial buildings, smothered in jacaranda and filled with the scent of cooking, in Antigua, or at a relaxing resort at the edge of the shockingly blue Lake Atitlan, the options quite unlike anywhere else in the world.
From ancient Mayan ruins and glassy lakes to deep, misty jungles and bustling, cultured cities and towns, Guatemala makes for a seriously enriching and alternative luxury honeymoon. Go your own way and avoid the crowds and the queues. Glamp among the ruins at Tikal, before star-gazing over a romantically different candle-lit dinner.
As luxury travel experts, we’ll tailor your luxury trip to Guatemala specifically to you and your loved ones. Between shamanic blessings and private sunset boat rides, we’ll get you exclusive access to hidden temples and ancient ruins. After a private helicopter ride over the striking archaeological site below, you’ll descend to explore Holmul by foot. If you like, we’ll also arrange a special permit for you to have exclusive access to the tunnels beneath. Then, there’s the breathtaking ruins of Uaxactún, which you’ll explore. At night. Here, you’ll enjoy complete privacy, sundowners, and nocturnal jungle exploration as we set up your luxury camp. Beneath the stars, between the ruins.
Villa Bokéh, Antigua
Posada del Angel, Antigua
Las Lagunas
November to April is Guatemala’s dry season — the most consistently reliable period for travel. Days are warm and clear, highland temperatures are comfortable, Lake Atitlan is calm, and jungle treks to sites like Tikal and El Mirador are at their best with firm trails and good visibility. December and January are peak season; book early for this period. May to October brings the rainy season, with afternoon downpours common across the highlands and Petén jungle. The rain doesn’t shut Guatemala down — it keeps the crowds thin and turns the countryside an extraordinary green — but jungle treks and some road routes become more challenging. Antigua is largely sheltered and can be visited year-round. For El Mirador, the 5-day jungle trek is best tackled in dry season. For Lake Atitlan, the legendary afternoon winds (‘Xocomil’) are strongest in December and January — plan morning activities on the water.
Guatemala is one of the most distinctive honeymoon destinations in Central America — and specifically because it hasn’t been shaped by honeymoon tourism. There are no generic overwater bungalow packages here. What Black Tomato builds instead is a honeymoon that feels genuinely private: a private camp set at the edge of ancient Mayan ruins with a personal chef and fire-warmed hot tub; a kayak at dawn across Lake Atitlan before anyone else is on the water; a candlelit dinner on the rooftop of a colonial Antigua villa. The boutique hotel culture reinforces this — Villa Bokéh, Posada del Angel, and Las Lagunas are properties where you won’t encounter other large groups. Couples who have done the more obvious honeymoon routes — Maldives, Italy, Southeast Asia — often find that Guatemala gives them something they weren’t expecting: genuine discovery, entirely without the crowds.
Ten to thirteen nights covers Guatemala well. Three nights in Antigua allows time for the UNESCO colonial streets, surrounding villages, and the weaving co-operatives without rushing. Three nights at Lake Atitlan gives enough time for kayaking, a local village visit, and the optional shaman blessing experience. Three to four nights in the Petén jungle — based near Tikal or at a remote camp for El Mirador — allows for early morning site visits and nocturnal jungle exploration. If El Mirador is the priority, the five-day overland trek requires planning around. For travellers combining Guatemala with Belize — our most popular Central American pairing — a further four to five nights in Belize adds snorkelling on the Barrier Reef and Caribbean beach time as a natural decompression after Guatemala’s intensity.
Guatemala and Belize combine exceptionally well and are our most requested Central American pairing. The contrast is part of what makes it work: Guatemala delivers ancient history, volcanic highlands, and Mayan culture; Belize answers with Caribbean coastline, the second-largest barrier reef in the world, and a completely different pace. The overland border crossing from Petén (Guatemala’s jungle region, near Tikal) into western Belize is smooth and takes around two hours. Alternatively, a short domestic flight from Guatemala City to Belize City is available. Most of our combined itineraries run twelve to fourteen nights — roughly split between the two countries — with Belize at the end as the natural finishing note. Chaa Creek eco-lodge in the Cayo region and Francis Ford Coppola’s Turtle Inn on the coast are our two favourite Belize properties to anchor the extension.
Guatemala offers genuine luxury at lower cost than equivalent experiences in Mexico, Costa Rica, or Southeast Asia. The boutique hotel market means you won’t pay five-star resort prices for excellent service and design. The wilder the itinerary — El Mirador trek, private Holmul helicopter access, glamping at Uaxactún — the more specialist the logistics, which is reflected in the cost. A Belize extension adds meaningfully to the total but the combined Central American journey is typically more cost-effective than two separate trips. Black Tomato builds every Guatemala itinerary from scratch. Speak to one of our Latin America specialists to discuss what the right trip looks like for you.
