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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Eater Journeys
We’re often asked who we’d invite to our ideal dinner party. Ernest Shackleton? Amelia Earheart? The entire editorial team of Eater? Easily. So we invited our friends at Eater over to dinner and quizzed them about their favourite foodie trips and then created them for you to experience too.
Surf Air
We’re proud to launch a brand-new series of exclusive US trips with ground-breaking private air company Surf Air. Bringing our combined knowledge of ground and sky together, we’re helping you to see the world in style.
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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Come for the dramatic, cultured coast of the Iberian peninsula. Stay for the Pastéis de Nata.
In 2005, we began charting the world as Black Tomato. In truth, we added destinations on an almost ad hoc basis – of those with which we had the strongest emotional connection. Portugal – we’ve consulted the notes, tattered as they are – was country no. 5. Why? Because of its unlike-nowhere-else cuisine, for the baroque-seaward cities of Lisbon and Porto, for its earthy, heavy-hitting wines and its gorgeous, easygoing hinterlands. Since those early days, we’ve built cast-iron connections with a host of local guides, partners and contacts; the same people who’ll ensure your luxury, bespoke trip to Portugal is as memorable as it first was for us.
Use this page as inspiration, then get in touch and together we’ll plan your perfect Portugal vacation.
Along Portugal’s sun-soaked Atlantic Coast, the golden beaches of Comporta and the Algarve have brought many of the world’s greatest surfers to their shores. After all, big waves and bohemian bars make for a perfect duet. You’ll hit them up alongside an expert instructor. We like to think of it as beach-hopping, or safari surfing. You’ll think of it as bliss.
Sitting snug in the crevice between Spain and the warm tides of the Atlantic, Portugal has all the vibrancy of its neighbour to the east, but with fewer crowds and a number of added hidden gems. Exuding a quiet confidence, a luxury holiday in Portugal lifts the lid on centuries worth of history and accompanies it with a side of delicious simplicity and beautiful scenery.
Wine production isn’t the only thing that Portugal’s Douro Valley does tantalising well. It’s a mecca for the romantic, thanks to its off-the-grid feel, charming mountainside towns and high-end boutique hotels. Whether you stay put in one of the region’s glamorous resorts or opt to cruise down the river and land in the dazzling city of Porto, a holiday to this region of Portugal will be bursting at the seams with phenomenal sunsets, personalised spa treatments, and private winery tours.
Lisbon has some sort of hypnotic essence about it. Sitting under the shadows of Castelo de Sao Jorge, the city smells of salty air, sounds like approaching cable cars, tastes like freshly baked pastel de nata, and embodies everything we love about the European lifestyle. For history lovers and sun seekers alike, our luxury tours of Lisbon include an insiders glance at both the city’s cultural sights and gastronomic delights, as well as a private venture to fairy tale Sintra.
From its expressive cities to its sun-drenched beaches and all of the lush valleys in-between, Portugal currently reigns as our most desirable and attractive Mediterranean country. In part due to its mouth-watering cuisine and partially due to our love affair with traditional fado music, we have this country to thank for welcoming zest and simplicity back into a sun soaked European vacation. A private tour of this seductive country will see guests discovering the Portuguese lifestyle and history from a handful of vantage points.
While Lisbon, Porto, and the Douro Valley may seem to be on everyone’s bucket list, Black Tomato doesn’t want you to limit your imagination. Thanks to our on-site experts and private local guides, the country’s more unspoilt and rural secrets can be yours to unearth. If you need convincing, a quick search of Portugal’s Alentejo region should do the trick.
Lisbon
Baroque stylings, steep hills, and clattering trams.
Lisbon is an adventurous, historic city. Hilly, labyrinthine, and culturally fascinating, our Black Tomato highlights are many. The 18th-century Four Seasons Ritz. A local historian to teach you about the iconic Seven Hills. A trip to the Grand Monastery, and a descent into the cellars of its Port District – where we’ll serve you a two-star Michelin meal, listening to the melancholic tones of live fado music.
Porto & the Douro Valley
Welcome to port country.
For over 2,000 years, the locals have been producing port in this stunning valley. And it has fed the city of neighbouring Porto, too (the clue is in the name). You’ll set sail down the valley of Douro in a private yacht, with local wine tastings and visits to bucolic vineyards. In the city itself, enjoy an absolutely jaw-dropping meal at the Yeatman Hotel. It’s one of life’s major accomplishments, we think.
Alentejo
Sprawling. Traditional. Delicious.
This enchanting, traditional hilltop village – and its surrounding region – are a welcoming heartland for Portugal’s most traditional cuisine. Rolling, craggy hills, palaeolithic carvings, and Roman ruins stand side-by-side. Pork, game, bread, cheese, wine and seafood are its staples. And believe us when we say the locals know exactly what to do with them. It’s probably one of the world’s best surprises.
Sao Lourenco do Barrocal, Alentejo
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