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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.
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.
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.
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.
We’ve seen the world – and we will see it again. But in the meantime, we’re going to keep in touch, reminding you of why we travel in the first place. And for us, travel has always started with a dream. A dream of somewhere else and of some time else. That’s why we’re looking back at the trips we’ve made in order to feel the thrill of the trips we’re going to take. One story at a time. Place by place, face by face. We’re going to look back to look forward.
Neil, Digital Content Manager
“Last February, just south of the Lofoten Islands in Norway and staying on the idyllic Manshausen Island, I spent a few days with the owner, Børge Ousland. He’s the most celebrated polar explorer of our generation and one night sitting around his fire he told us about the 56 days in total isolation he spent as he marched to the North Pole on his own. Now I sit working from the comfort of my kitchen thinking; not a lot has been asked of us. And when this is all over, they’ll be more towering mountains, epic stories, and inspiring characters to meet once again.”
Manshausen was established as one of the most strategic fishing trade posts in Nordland way back in 1698. People have been fishing and living in this place for far longer however and the history of this is still evident today, the main house “bødtkerboligen” remains standing from this prosperous era and is now Børge’s residence when he’s on the island.
In 1924 the fishing post became bankrupt, (new rules, new engines, new competition), it passed through many owners hands until its revival began under Børge’s ownership in 2010.
The most celebrated polar explorer of our generation.
On our journey through Norway, Børge was the person I was most excited to meet. Turned out for good reason as well. He is simply cut from a different cloth. Spending time with him was like peering into a window of another world. One of total resolve and pure love for the freezing cold. We sat by the fire in Bødtkerboligen as he recounted the journey he took in 1998 to the north pole, on his own. (Remember to ask him about Sponge cake and broken ice). He followed that story with his adventure coast to coast across Antarctica, again on his own.
Not only were these journeys undertaken on his own. He was the first person to – ever – make either journey unsupported on their own. Rooms and saunas a side, there’s not another hotel owner in the world quite like Børge. And yes, he is often on the island and an extremely warm, insightful character. He embodies for us what our we are human message is all about. Don’t sit around and read about people, lets go out and meet them.
He wanted a place that reflected everything important to him. The nature (and wow, what nature it is up there), had to not be a consideration for the design but the inspiration for it.
Architect and good friend of Børge, Snorre Stinessen has made quite a name for himself in this part of the world. His utterly seductive minimalist design allows the views and the nature to speak for itself. In 2016 the first four cabins were built across the west side of the island. In 2019 he returned to complete Manshausen 2.0. Four new cabins facing North out across the barents sea, with the Lofoten Islands in the distance. It really is as spectacular as it gets here.
Like the running of the Island (everything runs on hydro-power and the food is grown on the island or sourced nearby), the design had to understand the environment it was in. Wave height, salinity, wind direction, even projected rise in sea levels due to climate change helped Snorre carefully guide the position of the new cabins.
When you visit (and you should definitely visit) you’ll soon feel the details that make this space so immersive. It’s not until you head through your cabin door though, when you encounter that 180 degree view from the living space that you really have to stop in awe. It’s breathtaking, it’s calming, it’s otherworldly. It’s truly the most beautiful place I’ve ever stayed.
And to think, this is just one stop on the journey across northern Norway. Take a look at the route we took here. It will take you into the arctic north where you can sit down with Børge, hear his stories from another world, drink in the views, hike the mountains, sail the Fjords and ride out with the huskies.
Manshausen: Where sea and mountains meet.
Words: Neil Peacock, Digital Content Manager
Chapter 1: Join us as we ventured into the wilderness with Torkill and his pack of huskies
Manshausen is a favourite stop of ours. It’s the perfect pivot from coming down from Tromsø or up from Bergen before heading out into the Lofoten Archipelago. Where unnamed peaks are waiting to be skiied, orca’s playing in the Fjords and scenery that made me feel like I had left planet earth.
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