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Madeleine
Our group travel specialist, with a soft spot for honeymoons and milestone trips. If the celebration involves more than a few people, start here.
A sixtieth birthday, a fortieth anniversary, a retirement. The party lasts an evening. The trip lasts the rest of your life.
More people are choosing to mark the big ones with travel rather than a venue, and the arithmetic often favors it — the cost of a large party at home will frequently buy a week somewhere extraordinary for the people who matter most.
What we do beyond the booking is the part that makes it feel like an occasion. A cake waiting in the room, a private table on the terrace, the vow renewal arranged with the ship, the champagne that appears without anyone asking. Those come from knowing who to call, and they’re usually complimentary.
What are we celebrating?
Three kinds of occasion
Each one wants a different kind of trip — and a different amount of organizing on our part.
Milestones
Birthdays, retirements, graduations
The trip that marks a chapter closing or opening. A safari for a retirement, a cycling week in Tuscany for a sixtieth, somewhere a graduate will still be talking about at forty.
Reunions
Family, friends, the whole crew
A villa with room for everyone, an adults-only sailing, or a resort where four generations can each do their own thing and meet for dinner. We handle the part where nobody agrees on anything.
Love
Proposals, weddings, anniversaries
The proposal in Paris or Kyoto, the wedding on a Hawaiian bluff, the honeymoon in French Polynesia, the vow renewal at sea. All of it arranged so the day itself requires nothing from you.
What we add
The details that make it an occasion
They know it’s your celebration
Every hotel and ship is told before you arrive. It’s the difference between a nice room and a room with something waiting in it.
Amenities that come free
Upgrades, breakfast, dining credit, champagne. Ours to request, not yours to pay for — and worth real money across a group.
The table you can’t book
The terrace at sunset, the private dining room, the restaurant that says it’s full. Often available to someone who knows to ask early.
Ceremonies handled
Weddings and vow renewals at sea or ashore, with the paperwork, the officiant, and the flowers arranged before you land.
Surprises kept secret
We’re happy to work with one person and keep the rest of the party in the dark until the moment arrives.
Somebody on call
If something goes sideways on the day that matters most, you have a person to ring rather than a hold queue.
Who you’ll work with
Pick the office nearest you.
All four of our advisors plan celebrations. Which one you work with is usually just a question of which office you’d rather walk into.
Dunwoody
Leslie
Planning trips since 1990, which means a good many anniversaries and milestone birthdays for families she’s known for decades.
Dunwoody
Steve
He marked his own turning point with a year-long trip around the world, so he takes the idea of travel as a milestone seriously.
Tuscaloosa
Stella
She builds trips around local life — the long meal, the market, the evening that turns into the story everyone retells.
Go deeper
More on celebration travel
Resorts, ships, and destinations built for occasions — kept up to date through our relationships with colleagues around the world.
What’s the occasion?
Tell us what you’re marking and roughly when. The sooner we know, the more we can arrange quietly in the background.
