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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.
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.
Drone the World
With Drone the World, you’ll have your own personal film to show off your adventure. Filmed and edited by an international director, this is no ordinary home movie.
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.
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.
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.
Few natural events are as dramatic (or as rare) as a total solar eclipse. What once inspired mystery and confusion (its causes attributed to godly displeasure), today inspires justifiable excitement. Even obsession.
Eclipse travel has an ancient lineage, marking an historic celebration of the natural world and our place in the wider cosmos. And this is precisely why eclipse travel is becoming more important, and why we want to fuel that obsession.
At Black Tomato, we offer a variety of luxurious, tailor-made eclipse trips that orbit the calendar of these startling solar events. We’ll take you to wherever in the world the eclipse is at its most arresting, and we’ll do it in comfort, luxury, and plenty of style.
8th April 2024 marked the last ‘total’ solar eclipse, appearing at its maximum over the North American continent. Naturally, we sent travellers on an adventurous journey to view this tremendously unusual solar phenomenon in the US – Fredericksburg, Texas, to be precise.
The trip centred on Camp Hideaway – a tranquil, scenic retreat to give our guests the best possible view of the eclipse along its path of totality. The weekend made the most of the ranch and the surrounding countryside with trail rides, axe throwing and backyard cookouts. As the skies darkened, we celebrated the main event with a viewing party hosted by astronomer Dr Aaron Clevenson, followed by a Chef’s dinner on the great lawn.
We’re still on a high from this incredible event, so if you want to be there for the next one that’s on the horizon, get in touch to express your interest (with no obligation to proceed). This is something you won’t want to miss.
In December 2020, we sent a group of Black Tomato travellers on an unforgettable eclipse adventure to Argentinian Patagonia. The region’s remote ‘G-eclipse point’ was one of the best places in the world from which to observe the event.
This entirely private trip was centred on a luxury Blink camp, helicopter transfers, chefs, entertainment, wine, and a dedicated astronomer, alongside other tailored extras.
Rob, who witnessed 2020’s eclipse with us
The how’s, the where’s, and the when’s
The next total solar eclipse will occur on 12th August 2026.
We’ll design your luxury eclipse trip around these dates and the locations where it’s best to observe them. In total, that’s just five events spread over the next handful of years. They’re rare, so you’ll need to think and plan ahead. But that’s where we come in.
For each eclipse, NASA identify a Geographic Region of Eclipse Visibility (in other words, the place from which the eclipse will be at its most visible). On 12th August 2026, the next total solar eclipse will be best viewed from the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland and Spain.
With us, it’s easy. While there are certain locations in the world where eclipses will have their maximum, you can gain a similar (though not ‘total’) experience in other locations (though these might work out better from the perspective of your desired travel time and budget). We’ll update this page with the latest alignments. But you can also drop us a line at any time, and we’ll do the rest.
Your questions answered
There’s a right way and a wrong way of looking at an eclipse. Famously, it must be done indirectly and not via the naked eye. Use specially prepared solar glasses (we’ll provide these when you come with us), and never home-made versions. You should also never look at the sun through a camera, telescope or binoculars without a proper solar filter, as this can cause major eye injury.
In order to capture the eclipse on film or camera, you’ll need to take several steps and precautions. First, use a solar ‘ND’ filter to ensure it’s safe to observe through your lens. Set your camera’s ISO to a low value (such as 100). You’ll also want to set your shutter speed to its fastest (around 1/4000 or 1/8000), while stopping your lens aperture at around f/5.6 or f/8.
Remember to think about framing and composition before you shoot – seeing as you’ll want to keep your camera still for the entire duration. Alternatively, you could use our Drone the World service, where we can arrange for a professional photographer or filmmaker to join you for the occasion.
An eclipse can last minutes or hours. But we’ll design your trip so that it has multiple highlights and memorable moments, with luxurious accommodation (be it a camp, lodge, or hotel), experiences (horse-back riding, private tours, hot air balloons, etc), and opportunities to relax and explore. Simply tell us what you’re into, and we’ll propose something amazing.
One of the major paradoxes surrounding the solar eclipse is that as much as we want to see it, you should never look directly at it (naked-eyed, at least). However, it’s perfectly safe to look at the eclipse through specially designed solar filters. We will always provide these on our solar eclipse trips, so you won’t have to worry about missing out on the big event itself.
For the most part, our eclipse trips will see you travelling to some uniquely remote locations (all the better to observe the phenomenon). But you won’t be alone, or unattended. Expert guides and even masters of ceremony (such as astronomers) will be on hand to ensure that your experience goes off without a hitch. For more FAQs, head to our questions and answers page. Or get in touch.
