Luxury Travel Tour Operators - Luxury Hotels and Villas

Luxury Travel

Mr and Mrs Smith

Rated in the Top 50 Travel Websites in the Independent; Mr and Mrs Smith offers a collection of wonderful and exclusive places to stay plus special added extras for members. Just click on ‘Hotel Search’, and let them send you on your perfect trip, whether you’re looking for a quirky city boutique hotel, stylish country guesthouse or luxury spa. Their destinations include everywhere from Amsterdam to Zambia and they’ll also tell you the best room or suite to request, where to go for the best meal and give you the inside track on everything you need to know for your next destination.

Abercrombie and Kent

Abercrombie and Kent are one of the most famous luxury travel operators, and one of the major differences here is that they aim to offer you experiences you're unlikely to find anythwere else. These might include gaining access to the Medici's private art collection in Florence, exploring Udaipur in one of the Maharana's own classic cars or discovering local culture hidden down a small tributary of the Yangzi River. All the luxury travel websites are really beautiful and this is one of the very best.

Audley Travel

Use Audley’s specialist knowledge when you next decide to travel to Asia, Africa, India, New Zealand or Antarctica (and other destinations). You can either join one of their group tours, where you have a specific itinerary designed for that region and a guide, or let them help you create your own unique trip incorporating exactly what you want. Just click straight through to their ‘Features and Offers’ section to get an immediate snap-shot of what they’re able to arrange.

Bailey Robinson

Based in the UK, Bailey Robinson creates bespoke journeys around the world, including holidays to some of the finest hotels and luxury resorts in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean, South East Asia and North Africa. Meet the team online, find out who’ll be looking after you once you’ve chosen your destination and expect a truly personal service.

Carrier

The moment you arrive at this website you know that you’re in for a treat as this is without a doubt one of the most carefully thought out and beautifully designed. Travel with privately owned Carrier to Africa, the Far East, India or the Caribbean (and more) and choose from Luxury Chic, Desert Adventures, Safaris and Island Escapes as examples of your holiday theme. Expect a superb, personal service.

Cazenove and Loyd

Winner in the Favourite Specialist Tour Operator Category in Conde Nast Traveller’s 2007 awards, Cazenove and Loyd specialise in three destinations; Latin America, Africa and the Indian Ocean, and India and Beyond. This is a much smaller tour operator than many that are listed here and probably know these challenging areas of the world as well as, if not better than, anyone else you could travel with.

Cox and Kings

Cox and Kings have a beautifully designed, elegant website as you would expect from one of the world’s longest established travel companies. They organise high quality group tours, private journeys, romantic honeymoons and tailor-made itineraries to many of the most fascinating places in the world, ranging from the luxurious to the down right adventurous. There is a great deal to choose from here, with longer trips as well as city breaks.

Destinology

Search the database of flights, hotels and holidays here for a wide range of luxury holidays and hotels, including last minute deals. Most of the trips offered are long haul from city breaks to beach holidays and Honeymoons, and destinations include Dubai, Mauritious, the Maldives and Thailand. You can book all-inclusive and family holidays or choose from their ‘top ten’ breaks. One of the best things at Destinology is that you can, sometimes, really find luxury for less.

Elegant Resorts

‘Effortlessly Stylish Holidays’ is the mission statement at Elegant Resorts, where they offer to help you find your idea of paradise, wherever in the world you want to visit and whatever type of holiday you’re looking for. Choose from skiing, city living, beach holidays, honeymoons, African tours, visits to India or spa retreats and for each they’re just waiting to take care of every single detail for you.

Exsus

Exsus offers luxury tailor-made holidays, honeymoons and short breaks in Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean (but look at Europe and Dubai preferably for short breaks). They offer an extremely personal service and organise everything for you, from your flights and hotels, to restaurant bookings, private transfers and personal sightseeing tours. You can’t book directly online as each booking is different so you need to call them to discuss your requirements.

F M Allen

If you’re looking for a luxury safari stop right here - F M Allen are based in New York and offer personally recommended camps, lodges and hotels in destinations such as Mozambique, Botswana, Kenya, Namibia and Zanzibar. There are gorgeous pictures of all the places where you can stay and a great deal of information, so much so that I would recommend you send them an email outlining what you’re looking for once you’ve had a browse. For luxury lovers this is the perfect place to book.

Harlequin Holidays

Harlequin specialises in luxury holidays, honeymoons and short breaks to Europe, the Carribean, North Africa, the Indian Ocean and Dubai. Click through to their site, choose your destination and then be totally tempted by the wonderful collection of hotels. There are lots of pictures and information on each from number of rooms, restaurant details, sports facilities and nightlife. Email them for your personal quote or request a copy of their beautifully photographed catalogue.

ITC Classics

Experienced bespoke travel operator ITC Classics will arrange your holiday in destinations such as Mauritius, Antiqua, the Italian Lakes and South Africa. Through building personal relationships with each of the hotels and resorts on offer they’re able to bring you special care and attention and create trips for you that are perfect in every detail. There are excellent flight offers here as well such as free upgrades and half price child flights.

Kuoni

Luxury holiday company Kuoni offers you a range of holidays throughout the world, including safaris, beach resorts, spa breaks, honeymoons, cruises, city breaks, golfing trips, diving holidays and so much more that there's simply no way I can tell you about them all. If I mention that just for safaris there are air, balloon, short and camping safaris and that you can experience everything from the wildlife of the famous Kenyan Masai Mara or search for game on the Serengeti plains you'll maybe get the idea of what's available here. Take a look for yourself.

Orient Express

This is one you’ll definitely have heard of, with the famous Venice Simplon-Orient-Express offering to transport you in the style of a bygone era to exciting cities such as Venice, Paris, London, Budapest, Prague, Istanbul, Vienna and Rome. Now through Orient Express you can also book The Royal Scotsman, The Eastern and Oriental Express in South East Asia, and PeruRail – one of the highest rail routes in the world. With luxury hotels and fabulous river journeys as well this is an extremely seductive site to visit.

Seasons in Style

At Seasons in Style you’ll be allocated your own personal travel consultant, who’ll look after you throughout the booking of your trip and from one holiday to the next. Destinations include Bermuda, South Africa, Dubai and Europe and whichever you browse you can immediately see the hotels and resorts on offer and then be totally seduced by the outstanding photographs.

Tots Too

Visit this beautifully designed website offering luxurious and child-friendly spa holidays. All the spas here offer baby-sitting services, cots, kids’ clubs and five star luxury, so don’t expect to save money but do expect to be able to both travel with your tiny and relax as well. Once you click through to the destination of your choice you can see immediately how much baby-sitting costs, what ages the crèche and kids’ clubs cater for and if there’s a separate children’s pool. Bliss.