How private differs
How private differs Same guides, same hotels · the route is yours alone Written from scratch, every time
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01 · Who travels
2+
Just your people
Two is the usual booking. Nobody joins who you did not invite.
Group tour8—12
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02 · When you go
365
Days to choose
Your dates, not ours — and we will say if the month is wrong for the country.
Group tour14 dates
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03 · Price
$2 700
Per person, from
About 30% over the group version — the vehicle and guide are yours alone.
Group tour$1 900
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04 · Rewrites
2
Free, before booking
Move a city, add three days, drop a flight. Average used: 1.4.
Group tourfixed route
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05 · Your pace
0
Fixed departure times
Sleep in, skip a morning, stay another night — decide it at breakfast.
Group tourif all nine agree
Same twelve guides, same hotels, same 20% deposit — the only difference is that the route belongs to you. Compare group tours
FOUR LINES IN,
A ROUTE BACK
What people asked for, the shape of the days they got, and what the rewrite changed. Prices as invoiced.
- 48 hbrief to draft
- 1.4rewrites, average
- 0routes sold twice
- 2 in 5come back for another
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TWO, SLOWLY
01/03
PORTUGAL · SEP 2026
9 DAYS, NO ALARMS
Two guests · Rui Bettencourt
Their brief
“No early mornings, one long walk somewhere quiet, and we would rather eat well than see everything.”
The shape of it4 hotels
3 guided 6 yours
What the rewrite changed
Dropped Lisbon — they wanted the coast, not a city.
$3 100 per person $6 200 total 1 rewrite
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FOUR · TWO TEENAGERS
02/03
JAPAN · APR 2026
14 DAYS, SPLIT FOUR WAYS
Four guests · Kenji Aoki
Their brief
“They want cities, we want the mountains. Please make it work without anyone sulking.”
The shape of it6 hotels · 1 inn
5 guided 9 yours
What the rewrite changed
Both rewrites were the teenagers’: one more night in Tokyo, one fewer temple.
$4 900 per person $19 600 total 2 rewrites
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TWO · HONEYMOON
03/03
TANZANIA & ZANZIBAR · JUL 2026
12 DAYS, THEN NOTHING
Two guests · Joseph Mwangi
Their brief
“The migration but not a convoy of jeeps. Then somewhere flat and quiet where we do nothing for four days.”
The shape of it3 camps · 1 hotel
7 guided 5 yours
What the rewrite changed
The rewrite moved the coast to the end — they wanted the hard days first.
$6 400 per person $12 800 total 1 rewrite
Terracotta days are guided, pale days are yours — and on a private route any of them can move at breakfast. Send us four lines
FIVE CALLS YOURS,
FIVE OURS
Tailor-made does not mean you do the work. You answer five things in four lines; the other five are the job we do.
- 5 minof your time, total
- 21bookings we make
- 1person the whole way
- 0forms to fill in
Your five minutes Our forty-eight hours
You decide
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01Whereor ask us
A country, or just a mood — “somewhere warm, not a city”.
One line. Three people wrote “surprise us” and all three came back.
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02Whenany date
Exact dates or a month. We will say if it is the wrong one.
One line. No fixed departures to fit around.
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03How long, and how fastyour pace
Five days or three weeks; two things a day or six.
One line — and the one people forget to say.
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04A budget rangehonest one
Per person, flights excluded. A range is enough.
One line. We build to it rather than around it.
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05Anything you will not dosay it early
No small planes, no 5am starts, no shared bathrooms.
One line that saves a rewrite later.
5 minis genuinely all of it. Four lines in an email is a complete brief.
We decide
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The route, day by day9 of 14 days planned
Which region first, which nights where, which days left empty.
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The hotels, by name8 nights named
Rooms we have slept in, in the part of town that suits the day.
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Your guide6 guided days
One of our twelve, named before you pay, on the days that need one.
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Every moving part21 bookings made
Internal flights, trains, transfers, permits, park fees, entries.
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The plan B5 days covered
Written before you fly for every day that hangs on weather or one flight.
$0for all of it until you say go — the draft is free and yours to keep.
And if you would rather decide nothing at all, write “surprise us” with a budget — three people did, and all three came back for a second trip. Send us four lines
Day six · Sacred Valley, Peru 06:14 · nobody else booked that hour Photographed by Mateo
NOBODY ELSE ON THE ROUTE.
No group to wait for, no coach to fill, no hand raised before you can leave. Two of you, one guide, and a day that moves when you do.
- 2people on this route
- 1guide, all yours
- 0people to wait for
Their sixth morning06:14
“We asked Mateo the night before if we could start an hour earlier. He said yes and moved the driver. That was the whole conversation.”
Anna & Piet
On a group date09:00, fixed
Plan my trip · anywhere
FOUR ANSWERS
Marta Ferreira
Your planner, whichever region
She reads every request herself and answers from her own address.
- 48hFirst draft itinerary, named hotels
- 2 roundsOf changes, free
- $0Until you approve the plan
- 1 humanNo call centre, no bots