Journeys
Six journeys we have designed and would happily design again. Read them as starting points, a sense of how we think about routing, pacing and where the money is worth spending. Every one has come out different each time it has been booked.
The Japanese Odyssey
Japan rewards precision more than almost anywhere. The right ryokan on the right night. A shrine visited an hour before it belongs to everyone. A sushi counter booked the month reservations opened. This is the version we build most often, and it comes out different every time.
Tokyo
Arrive on a morning flight so the first day survives. A quiet room high above Otemachi, an evening walk through Yanaka rather than Shibuya, and dinner at a counter that seats eight.
Hakone
Two nights in a ryokan with a private onsen and Fuji in the window when the weather agrees. Kaiseki served in your room. An empty schedule.
Kyoto
A machiya townhouse rather than a hotel. Fushimi Inari at six in the morning, when it belongs to nobody. A tea ceremony in a private house rather than a demonstration hall.
Naoshima
The island most itineraries skip. Ando concrete built into hillsides, a Monet room lit only by the sun, and a hotel where the art is the building.
Departure
Shinkansen to Osaka or back to Tokyo, timed so the morning stays calm.
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₹4,20,000 per person
Based on two travelling together in shoulder season, excluding international flights, GST and TCS. Your journey gets priced properly once it is designed.
Design my version→The Mediterranean Summer
The Italian coast in season is either magical or a queue, and the difference comes down to planning. Which town you sleep in, what time you take the boat, and whether someone booked the table back in April.
Amalfi Coast
A cliffside hotel in Ravello rather than Positano. Quieter, higher, fifteen minutes from the noise. A private boat day out to the Li Galli islands.
Capri
Two nights on the island so you are there after the day trippers leave. That is when Capri becomes the place people write about.
Taormina
A short flight to Sicily. A former convent above the sea, Etna at sunrise, and dinners that start at nine and end when they end.
Departure
Catania, or onward to Rome or Milan if you would like a city at the end.
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₹3,80,000 per person
Based on two travelling together in shoulder season, excluding international flights, GST and TCS. Your journey gets priced properly once it is designed.
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The Maldives Escape
There are over 160 resorts and they behave very differently from one another. House reef or sandbank. Seaplane or speedboat. Adults only or family. We choose against your answers rather than against a commission sheet.
Arrival
Malé, then a seaplane over water that looks unreal from 300 metres. Early check-in arranged so the room is ready when you land.
The island
An overwater villa with a reef you can swim to, or a beach villa with a pool if you would rather stay dry. A sandbank dinner one evening, arranged quietly.
Departure
A late checkout negotiated in advance, and a day room in Malé if your flight is unkind.
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₹2,40,000 per person
Based on two travelling together in shoulder season, excluding international flights, GST and TCS. Your journey gets priced properly once it is designed.
Design my version→The Swiss Grand Tour
Switzerland is one of the few places where the transport is the experience. Done properly this becomes a rail journey with hotels attached rather than a hotel holiday with trains in between.
Lucerne
A grand lakeside hotel of the old kind. Pilatus by cogwheel railway, and an afternoon spent doing very little by the water.
St. Moritz
The Bernina Express in first class through the Albula Pass, which is the most beautiful four hours in European rail. Three nights in the Engadin.
Zermatt
The Glacier Express onward. A car-free village and a room where the curtains open onto the Matterhorn. A specific room, requested at booking.
Departure
Down to Geneva or Zürich by rail, first class, luggage sent ahead.
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₹3,10,000 per person
Based on two travelling together in shoulder season, excluding international flights, GST and TCS. Your journey gets priced properly once it is designed.
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Desert & Dynasty
Four hours from most Indian cities, and the one short-haul journey that feels much further than it is, provided you leave the malls behind by day three.
Dubai
A tower suite, a table that takes some getting, and a day at the marina. The version of Dubai that earns the reputation.
Abu Dhabi
The Grand Mosque at first light and Louvre Abu Dhabi in the afternoon, before driving south.
Oman
The Wahiba Sands and the Jebel Akhdar mountains. A desert camp with proper beds, and a silence you can actually hear.
Departure
Muscat, with a morning at the Royal Opera House or the souq if the flight allows.
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₹1,85,000 per person
Based on two travelling together in shoulder season, excluding international flights, GST and TCS. Your journey gets priced properly once it is designed.
Design my version→The African Wilderness
Safari is the one journey where the wrong month costs you the trip, because the animals are where they are. We build these around the migration calendar first and fit everything else around it.
Maasai Mara
A small camp of eight tents rather than a lodge of sixty. Dawn and dusk drives, and a balloon over the plains on the morning the wind agrees.
Serengeti
A light aircraft hop across the border. A mobile camp positioned for the migration in the month you travel, which is the whole trick.
Zanzibar
Because a safari should end at the sea. A restored stone house on the north coast, and an empty schedule.
Departure
Zanzibar via Nairobi or Doha, with a connection built to be survivable.
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₹4,60,000 per person
Based on two travelling together in shoulder season, excluding international flights, GST and TCS. Your journey gets priced properly once it is designed.
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