YEAR-END 2026
Where the year ends.
Five settings for principals and their families, from snow in the Alps to the Okavango after the rains, and six thoughts on the time in between.
From the founder
Where should the family be when the year turns?
Every October the question arrives, in different words. Snow or sun. Away or at home. Somewhere new, or somewhere the children already know the way to the beach.
This issue gathers five answers: Courchevel for snow, the Seychelles aboard Aqua Lares for the sea, the Okavango and the Kalahari for the wild, Cape Town for summer at home, and St Barts for warmth. None of them is right for every family. That is rather the point.
What they share is the way we plan them: around the people travelling, not the property. The chalet is forgotten by spring. The fire after the last drive, the instructor who knew their name, the night the children stayed up for the fireworks: those are what a family keeps.
Clifford NyathiFounder, Truly Luxe
In this issue
Contents
Courchevel, at 1,850 metres.
The village, the hotels, the instructors, Christmas and New Year.
3 min read
The Seychelles, from the water.
An expedition yacht of fifteen suites, and an atoll few people ever reach.
2 min read
The Delta, after the first rains.
A tented camp on the Khwai, and a desert lodge the whole family can have to itself.
2 min read
Seven in the evening, still light.
High summer on the Atlantic seaboard, and a day in the winelands.
2 min read
Warmth, in December.
A small French island, a villa above the lagoon, and New Year in Gustavia.
2 min readSix thoughts on the year-end.
Observations from a year of planning other families' time away.
2 min readBegin the conversation.
Tell us a little about your family and the dates you have in mind. We will come back to you with what is possible, quietly and without obligation.
Enquire