Begin with the feeling.
This isn't a catalog. It's a small, considered collection, organized by why you're going rather than where. Every journey is planned from scratch; these are here to show you how I think.
Mark the moment
An anniversary. A significant birthday. A vow renewed. The trips planned to feel as singular as the occasion that calls for them.
Le Sirenuse
A family-owned landmark above the bay, all terracotta and old antiques, with a terrace where the Tyrrhenian does the rest. The place for a celebration that wants to feel timeless rather than new.
Villa d'Este
A sixteenth-century villa on the water, with gardens lit after dark and a famous floating pool on the lake. Grand in the old sense, for the anniversary that deserves a little ceremony.
Soneva Jani
Overwater villas with retractable roofs and slides into the lagoon, and an observatory for the stars. Barefoot from the moment you arrive. Privacy measured in atolls.
Cheval Blanc St-Barth
The only Caribbean address to hold France's "Palace" distinction, on Flamands Beach, with the polish you'd expect from LVMH. For a landmark that calls for a little glamour.
Badrutt's Palace
The hotel that has defined St. Moritz since 1896, with the frozen lake at its doorstep in winter and a new wing of rooms as of this year. A grand winter celebration in the old grand style.
Amangiri
A handful of suites hidden in 900 acres of Colorado Plateau red rock, with a pool built around a stone escarpment. Quiet, cinematic, and like nowhere else for marking a moment.
Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino
A modern landmark on the unspoiled Messinian coast of the Peloponnese, with its own beach, golf and a sense of space that suits a gathering. Greece for a celebration that wants room to breathe.
Begin together
Long horizons and slow mornings, with nothing left to chance. The first journey of a marriage, handled from end to end so the two of you can just be there.
Four Seasons Bora Bora
Overwater bungalows that look straight at Mount Otemanu, a lagoon sanctuary off the deck, dinners set up on the sand. The honeymoon people picture when they picture a honeymoon.
Katikies Santorini
Whitewashed suites carved into the caldera, infinity pools above the sea, and that famous Aegean sunset from your own terrace. Quietly grown-up romance.
Cheval Blanc Randheli
An LVMH private-island address, exceptional in both design and service. A renovation has affected some 2026 dates, so I'll confirm availability and line up the right alternative if needed.
The Brando
Marlon Brando's private atoll, reached by a small plane from Tahiti. Thirty-five villas with plunge pools, and about as private as the South Pacific gets.
North Island
Eleven barefoot villas on a private island you reach by helicopter, with a rewilding project for company. The castaway honeymoon, and almost no one else around.
Amanzoe
A hilltop Aman of free-standing pavilions with private pools, looking out over the Peloponnese, and a beach club waiting below. Serene rather than show-off.
Belvedere Mykonos
A long-loved hideaway above Mykonos town, with a pool that looks straight out to the Aegean and the island's best tables a short walk down the hill. Romance with a little glamour.
Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat, A Four Seasons Hotel
A belle-époque grande dame on its own pine-clad peninsula between Nice and Monaco, with a sea-water pool cut into the rock. The Riviera at its most timeless.
Come back to yourself
Quiet places built for rest. Mountain air, thermal water, someone on call when you want them. The reset you keep putting off, finally on the calendar.
Amankora
A single journey across five lodges in the Himalayan valleys, with monasteries, prayer flags, hot-stone baths and a great deal of silence. All-inclusive, deeply restorative, unlike anywhere else.
Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan
Suspended above the Ayung River in the jungle canopy. Yoga at dawn, a river-valley spa, and a real sense of arrival the moment you cross the bridge.
Aman Kyoto
A secret garden in a forest at the foot of Hidari Daimonji, with onsen-fed baths and the particular Japanese kind of stillness. Renewal as an art form.
Six Senses Zighy Bay
Village-style villas where the Hajar mountains drop straight into emerald water. A serious Six Senses spa, and the option to arrive by paraglider if the mood takes you.
The Retreat at Blue Lagoon
A hotel built into an 800-year-old lava field, with private access to the Blue Lagoon's geothermal water and a quiet, mineral calm. The reset, in the simplest possible terms.
Six Senses Douro Valley
A restored nineteenth-century manor above the river, with a ten-room spa and a wine library downstairs. Renewal and a very good glass of red, in the same place.
Lanserhof Tegernsee
A serious, science-led retreat above a Bavarian lake, the kind of place you leave genuinely reset. For when the trip is about you, and not the sightseeing.
Everyone, together
Private villas and the kind of quiet logistics that hold three generations at once. The reunion you keep meaning to plan, made easy.
Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco
A 5,000-acre estate with its own golf club, a Brunello winery, and villas big enough for a whole family. Cooking lessons, long vineyard lunches, room for everyone to spread out.
Four Seasons Resort Hualalai
The benchmark for a family trip to Hawaii. Seven pools, a marine sanctuary, a kids' program that genuinely earns its keep, and grown-up dining once the day winds down.
Kokomo Private Island
A private island you can take in full for a family gathering. Overwater and beachfront villas, a dive center, a kids' club, and the South Pacific to yourselves.
Four Seasons Papagayo
A flagship eco-resort between jungle and Pacific, with one of the best kids' clubs in the Americas and an adventure menu the teenagers won't roll their eyes at.
Fairmont Banff Springs
A castle in the Rockies, big enough for three generations, with skiing in winter and hiking the rest of the year. Grand, easy, and ready for a crowd.
Amanyara
Pavilions spread along an 18,000-acre nature preserve on the quiet side of Provo. Calm water, soft sand, and the kind of space a family actually needs.
Ashford Castle
A thirteenth-century castle on Lough Corrib with falconry, boats and grounds three generations can lose a whole day in. Fairy-tale, and surprisingly easy with a crowd.
Gleneagles
Scotland's great sporting estate: 850 acres of golf, riding and country pursuits, with a grandeur that holds a whole family at once.
Go beneath the surface
A private tea ceremony, a long lunch with a winemaker, a temple before the gates open. The kind of door that opens when someone knows to knock.
Aman Kyoto & the ryokan road
Temple gardens before the gates open, an afternoon in an artisan's workshop, a kaiseki dinner that took a lifetime to learn. Japan, arranged through people who actually live there.
Ritz Paris
A legend, beautifully restored. Bar Hemingway, the Ritz Escoffier kitchens, the gardens. A base for private museum hours and the Paris that doesn't show up on the map.
Borgo Egnazia
A whole whitewashed village reimagined on the Adriatic, with local feasts, olive groves, and the slow rhythm of southern Italy. Culture you taste as much as see.
Taj Lake Palace
A white-marble palace that seems to float on Lake Pichola, reached by boat. India at its most romantic, and a doorway into Rajasthan's forts, crafts and color.
Royal Mansour
Private multi-storey riads with their own courtyards and butlers, hidden behind the medina walls. Among the most decorated hotels in Africa, and a soft landing into Marrakech.
Amansara
A 1960s royal guesthouse a few minutes from Angkor, with private access to the temples at the hours no one else has. Quiet, modern, and deeply Khmer.
Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid
A beautifully restored belle-époque landmark beside the Prado, at the heart of Madrid's golden triangle of art. A base for the galleries, the tables and the long, late evenings.
Rosewood Vienna
On Petersplatz in the old city, steps from the opera house and the coffee houses. Imperial Vienna, with the music and the cake both taken seriously.
Feel far away
A tented camp in the Delta, a ship at the edge of Antarctica, a lodge at the end of the road. Remote, and never roughing it.
Wilderness Mombo Camp
The most storied address in African safari. Predator-rich plains, a handful of tents, and game viewing that consistently ranks at the top of the continent. All-inclusive, reached by light aircraft.
Silversea & Scenic Eclipse expeditions
The white continent from a six-star expedition ship. Zodiacs among the icebergs, penguins by the thousand, a polar plunge if you're brave. The last great journey, in genuine comfort.
Explora & Tierra, Patagonia
Design lodges at the foot of the Torres del Paine, all-inclusive, with guided treks, condor skies, and the silence of the end of the world. (A few close mid-winter, so I'll time it right.)
Singita Kwitonda Lodge
Eleven volcano-view suites on the edge of the forest where the mountain gorillas live. One of the great wildlife encounters left on earth, in real comfort.
Aqua Mare
The islands' first true superyacht, seven suites for sixteen guests. Blue-footed boobies and marine iguanas by day, a chef and a sommelier by night.
Longitude 131°
Fifteen tented pavilions with Uluru filling the window from your bed. The Red Centre at dawn and dusk, with none of the roughing-it.
Storfjord Hotel
A hand-built timber lodge above the Storfjord near Ålesund, with the great fjords, the Atlantic Road and the midnight sun within reach. Remote Norway, in quiet comfort.
