Tailor-made journeys
Built from a blank page around your dates, pace and interests. Private guides, the right rooms, and the quiet logistics that make a long trip feel effortless.
Begin a journeyLuxury bespoke travel
Tailor-made journeys, the world's finest hotels, ocean and expedition voyages, and the great rail routes. Planned around you, by people who have been there.
36.39° N · 25.46° E·Santorini, Greece
Independent
We choose hotels, ships and trains on merit, and we tell you plainly which ones we would not book for you.
One planner
The person who designs your journey is the person who answers the phone while you are away.
Access
Preferred rates, room upgrades and amenities at leading hotels, wherever our partner programmes allow.
Care while away
A direct line to your planner, wherever you are and whatever the hour.
The collection
Everything we plan is built to order. These are the forms it most often takes.
Built from a blank page around your dates, pace and interests. Private guides, the right rooms, and the quiet logistics that make a long trip feel effortless.
Begin a journeyFrom grand city houses to barefoot islands and private villas with staff. We know which wing, which room and which month.
Find the right roomSmall ships and all-suite lines, from the Mediterranean and the Norwegian fjords to the Galápagos and the polar regions, with the right cabin on the right itinerary.
Choose a voyageThe world's storied trains: the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Rocky Mountaineer, The Ghan, Rovos Rail and more, with the hotels and transfers that frame them.
See the trainsOur own seasonal itineraries, proven on the ground and refined each year. A faster route to a very good holiday, still adjusted to you.
Browse by latitudeMilestones deserve more than a nice hotel. We plan the moments around them: the table, the boat, the view, the morning after.
Mark the occasionJourneys by latitude
Every destination has a latitude, and every latitude has its season. A selection of the journeys we plan most often, from the high Arctic to the far south.
Ten days among the pack ice under the midnight sun, on a small expedition ship with zodiacs, kayaks and a naturalist team. Polar bears, walrus and the silence of the fjords.
Aurora in the long nights, ice caves under the glacier, and a lodge with its own geothermal lagoon. Driven by a private guide who reads the weather.
Arrive the proper way, overnight from Paris aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, then three nights on the Grand Canal with the city to yourself at dawn.
Autumn maples or the cherry blossom, private visits to temples before they open, and a ryokan in the hills where dinner is the point of the day.
Palace hotels in Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur, joined by the Maharajas' Express, with a private guide at every fort and a quiet morning at the Taj Mahal.
A villa over the reef in a UNESCO biosphere reserve, a house reef of your own, and seaplane transfers timed so nobody waits.
Overwater suites facing Mount Otemanu, a private motu for the day, and a few nights in Moorea on the way through.
Table Mountain, the Cape vineyards and the whale coast, then north by Rovos Rail to Pretoria and on to safari in the Sabi Sand.
Granite towers, glacial lakes and an all-inclusive lodge at the end of the road, with guided days on foot, by horse or by boat to the Grey Glacier.
Cross the Drake Passage by ship, or fly over it in two hours and board in the South Shetlands. Zodiacs among the icebergs, penguin colonies, and a polar plunge for the brave.
How we work
Four steps, each with one person responsible for them: yours.
An hour, in person or by video, about how you like to travel: pace, rooms, food, and what you never want to do again.
A first itinerary within days, with our reasoning for every hotel, ship and route, and an honest price.
We adjust until it is right. Then we book everything, confirm each detail in writing and brief you before you go.
One document for the whole trip, your planner on call throughout, and a debrief when you return so the next one is better still.
Rail & sea
Some journeys are the destination. We book the great trains and the small, all-suite ships, and we build the days on either side of them.
Rail journeys sell out a year or more ahead. Tell us early.
We advise on the ship, the suite and the deck, and on which itinerary actually earns the sea days.
We recommend only what we know, and we say so plainly when something is not worth your money.
About Select Latitudes
Select Latitudes Travel is an independent, bespoke travel agency. We plan a deliberately small number of journeys each year so that each one gets the attention it deserves, from the first conversation to the morning you get home.
Our planners inspect the hotels they recommend, sail with the lines they book and ride the trains they suggest. Recommendations come from experience rather than brochures, and from a network of guides, hoteliers and captains built over years of travelling.
We work with couples, families and small groups who value their time and want it spent well. If you would rather make one call than fifty searches, we are the right people to call.
Begin
A few lines are enough to start. We will come back with questions, and then with a first idea.
Received
A planner will read your note and reply within one working day, usually with a few questions before any ideas. If it is urgent, write to us directly at the address alongside.