About us: celebration trips, planned around the weather

We plan private trips of roughly ten to sixteen days for two people or a small group of friends. Every trip has the same three parts: a culture half, a beach half, and one evening built around the occasion. The routes are slow, with three or four nights in most places, and private throughout: your own car, your own guide on the days you want one, your own boat where a boat is part of the day.

What makes the planning ours is the order we do it in. We start with the month you can travel and the coast that is in season that month, then build the culture stops around it. The beach calendar on this site is the tool we use for that, and we publish it with its sources so you can check our reasoning.

• Family and multi-generation trips. Children's needs, connecting rooms, grandparents' pace — we do not plan for these, and our hotel choices reflect that.
• Large groups. Above about twelve people, private dinners and private boats stop being what they sound like. We are not set up for weddings abroad or company trips.
• Budget travel. Our trips use private cars and guides throughout, and hotels chosen for the occasion. If the budget is tight, a good guesthouse and a shared tour will serve you better than a cut-down version of what we do.
• Adventure and trekking. Our routes are easy on the body: a few kilometres of walking at the temples and in old towns, nothing more.
• Last-minute trips in peak weeks. For the Lunar New Year and the December holidays, the resorts and boats we prefer fill early. With a few weeks' notice we may only be able to offer second choices.

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If something on this site turns out to be out of date — a ticket price, a season, a rule at a site — tell us through the form and we will correct it.