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Family Vacations
Our team is full of family travelers, meaning we know what it takes to make sure everyone enjoys the experience just as much as each other.
Couples Vacations
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.
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.
Group Vacations
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.
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 Vacations
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 Travel
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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Unusual vacations
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?
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.
Adventure vacations
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 Vacations
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 Vacations
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.
Safari vacations
With a team of experts that have worked as conservationists and wildlife photographers, we have the expertise to make your safari dreams come true.
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 Vacations
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
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
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
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.
Baobab trees, legendary tea estates, vibrant rainforests, soft sand beaches, and enticing waters. You’ll experience the multifaceted islands of the Indian Ocean from a mind-altering perspective, taking you on a journey through this tropical continent’s hidden depths and natural treasures. Whether you’re making a personalised blend of lychee-infused rum, exploring the ocean floor on an underwater scooter, or dining by candlelight on your own private island. A luxury trip to the Indian Ocean is everything you want it to be, and more.
Since 2005 we have taken travelers to the Indian Ocean’s finest island destinations: private overwater villas in the Maldives’ remote atolls where the reef is visible from your daybed, the Seychelles’ outer islands accessible only by charter flight, Madagascar’s national parks with specialist wildlife guides who have spent decades learning their animals. We didn’t buy this access; we earned it through two decades of relationships with the people who know these islands best. We build every luxury Indian Ocean vacation around you: the specific island experience you’re looking for, and how much of the outside world you want to leave behind.
The Maldives does one thing exceptionally well: it removes all reasons to be anywhere else. An overwater villa above a lagoon where the coral is visible from your daybed. Snorkelling with manta rays from a private sandbank before dinner on the beach. A full moon dinner served once a month on a quiet sandbar, the water still, the sky enormous. The Seychelles is different — older, wilder, its granite boulders and protected coves belonging to a landscape that took its own evolutionary path. Félicité Island’s forest, Praslin’s Vallée de Mai, the outer islands reached only by chartered aircraft. Both reward those who arrive with time and no agenda.
Mauritius sits slightly apart from the classic Indian Ocean story. The volcanic interior, the tea estates of the highlands, the colonial history of its coastal towns — there is more here than any beach makes obvious. The lagoon on the west coast for water sports and afternoon light. The southeast for dramatic black lava coastline and empty coves. Réunion is different again: an active volcano, jungle ravines, and a landscape that has no interest in being anyone’s idea of paradise. It is wild and dramatic in a way that draws a specific kind of traveller. We know which version of the Indian Ocean suits which traveller, and we’ll tell you honestly before you book.
Madagascar sits outside the usual Indian Ocean itinerary, which is precisely why it rewards those who go. Five percent of the world’s species live here, almost all found nowhere else. The Indri lemur in the forest at Analamazaotra. Ring-tailed lemurs moving through the Sacred Gallery at dusk. Baobab Alley at Morondava, 800-year-old giants lit at sunset against a sky that changes colour for thirty minutes and then goes dark. The Indian Ocean’s most remote and least understood island is also among the most extraordinary — and most accessible when you know who to travel with.
Sri Lanka
An island that rewards those who look beyond the beach. The Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, where centuries of devotion fill the air with chanting and the soft ring of bells. Highland tea estates stretching up into the mist at Hatton, toured with a Resident Planter who knows every leaf. Ancient cave temples at Dambulla, their murals undimmed after 2,000 years. Elephants moving through the forest at dusk. Sri Lanka is compact, layered, and endlessly surprising.
Madagascar
Nowhere else on earth quite prepares you for Madagascar. Five percent of the world’s species live here, and almost all of them are found nowhere else. The haunting call of the Indri lemur echoing through the canopy at Analamazaotra. Ring-tailed lemurs and Verreaux’s sifakas moving through the Sacred Gallery forest at dusk. Baobab Alley at Morondava, 800-year-old giants silhouetted against a burning sky. This is a place that exists on its own evolutionary terms, and it shows.
The Indian Ocean Islands
The Maldives. The Seychelles. Mauritius. Réunion. Four islands, four very different moods. Shallow lagoons and overwater bungalows where the only decision is how long to stay in the water. Granite boulders and deserted coves in the Seychelles that feel like the world hasn’t found them yet. The colonial elegance of Mauritius and its volcanic interior. And Réunion — wild and dramatic, its active volcano and jungle ravines a reminder that the Indian Ocean has edges too. Paradise, in more than one form.
JOALI, Raa Atoll
Six Senses Laamu, Laamu Atoll
Soneva Fushi, Baa Atoll
For a single-island luxury Indian Ocean vacation — the Maldives, Seychelles, or Mauritius — seven to ten days gives you enough time to settle in, explore, and leave without feeling rushed. Combining islands, such as the Maldives and Sri Lanka, or Madagascar with the Seychelles, works well over two to three weeks. Madagascar benefits from at least ten days to reach the more remote national parks where the wildlife is most extraordinary. We design every itinerary around your available dates and what you most want to experience.
For a first luxury Indian Ocean vacation, the Maldives is the most straightforward entry point — the combination of overwater villas, exceptional snorkeling and diving, and total seclusion is unlike anywhere else on earth. The Seychelles suits those who want genuine wilderness alongside luxury: the outer islands, granite boulders, and wildlife-protected beaches are among the most beautiful environments on earth. Mauritius is the right choice for those who want a mix of beach, culture, and water sports alongside strong luxury hotel infrastructure. We’ll design the itinerary around exactly the experience you’re looking for.
The best time for a luxury Indian Ocean vacation depends on which island you’re visiting. The Maldives is welcoming year-round, though December to April offers the calmest seas and least rainfall on the atolls. The Seychelles has two distinct seasons: May to September for the trade winds and diving conditions; October to April for calmer, warmer weather suited to all activities. Mauritius is best May to December. Madagascar is most accessible April to October. We factor all of this into every itinerary and will always recommend the timing that best suits your chosen destination.
Luxury Indian Ocean vacations typically start from around $6,000 per person, rising for private island stays in the Maldives, outer island charter flights in the Seychelles, or multi-destination itineraries combining islands with Sri Lanka or Madagascar. The Maldives’ most exclusive private island resorts can significantly exceed this figure; Mauritius and Sri Lanka tend to offer strong value for equivalent luxury. We price every vacation individually based on your dates, group size, accommodation preferences, and the experiences you want — and there are no planning fees.
Yes, and combining destinations is often more rewarding than a single-island stay. The Maldives and Sri Lanka share a short flight connection and contrast sharply in character — island seclusion against cultural depth. The Seychelles and Kenya combine naturally on an east African circuit that pairs safari with ocean. Madagascar and Mauritius suit those who want wildlife alongside beach luxury. We plan every routing and connection so the journey feels seamless rather than fragmented.
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