Some journeys stay with you forever. Not because of the hotel —though the hotel matters—, but because of the moment your daughter sees an elephant twenty metres away for the very first time, or the dinner where three generations laugh at the same thing beneath a sky you never see at home. Designing a journey like that is not a matter of spending more. It is a matter of everything fitting together: of the pace working for a six-year-old and for a seventy-five-year-old grandfather, of no one waiting, of nothing going wrong.
That is exactly what we do at Away: bespoke luxury family journeys, crafted so that each member enjoys their own within the same journey.
The luxury of a family journey is not measured in stars. It is measured in one very simple thing: how much you yourself can relax. When you travel with your loved ones, the real luxury is not having to sort anything out. That the transfer is waiting, that the room is the right one, that the guide knows how to speak with a teenager and with a grandfather, that the day’s plan leaves room to improvise.
A well-designed luxury family journey has three things that a fixed package will never have:
For years it was taken for granted that travelling with children meant giving things up: the beautiful hotels, the exclusive experiences, the peace of mind. It is not true. What changes is not the level of the journey, but the way it is designed.
A luxury family journey with children is thought through from the details that make the difference: accommodation with real space for everyone (private villas, family suites, lodges with several bedrooms), activities suited to each age, and a margin of flexibility for the days when the plan has to change mid-morning. None of that is improvised: it is designed.
More and more families are travelling together in their full version: grandparents, children and grandchildren. It is one of the most beautiful journeys there is and, also, one of the hardest to organise well, because you have to please very different ages and energies within a single itinerary.
The key lies in designing shared moments —the grand dinner, the safari, the celebration— and, at the same time, leaving room for each generation to have its own: a more active excursion for the young, a spa morning for the grandparents. We tell it in detail in our guide to multigenerational luxury journeys.
Not every destination performs the same with a family. Some give everything: they combine safety, luxurious comfort and experiences that leave their mark at any age.
We have gathered the best of them in our guide to destinations for a luxury family journey.
It is the natural question, and the honest answer is: it depends. It depends on the destination, the number of days, the type of accommodation and the experiences you choose. A bespoke journey has no catalogue price precisely because it is built around what you want, no more and no less.
What we can tell you is where every euro goes and why, so that you decide with all the information. We develop it in how much a bespoke luxury journey costs.
A package is designed for the average traveller. Your family is not the average. You have your ages, your rhythms, your dreams and your quirks, and a bespoke journey is the only way for the result to fit you like a glove.
What is more, the bespoke journey opens a door that the package closes: access. The best villas, the most sought-after guides, the experiences that appear in no brochure. We tell it in bespoke journey or package.
Behind every Away journey there are people, not a form. When you write to us, you begin talking with a travel designer —Guada or Javilón— who listens first and designs afterwards. We do not sell a destination: we understand your family and build the journey around it.
That is also the reason most of our families come back. A first journey becomes next summer’s, and the grand celebration three years from now. When someone truly knows how you travel, each following journey turns out better. We tell you how a journey is designed at Away, step by step.
Tell us who is travelling and when. We will design it to fit you.
Design your journey →Article written by the team at Away Travel Designer, a bespoke travel agency in Seville. We design bespoke luxury journeys for travellers who will not settle for the ordinary.