Your Journey,
Personally Handled.

Batur, before it's light

Everyone does this day. Most people do it badly: a minibus, a crowd, and a summit shared with two hundred phones. This is the private version.

Handled by mePickup, jeep, breakfast, entries and the drive home. You bring a jumper, because it's cold up there.

What the day is

1. 1A driver at your gate. No meeting point, no waiting in the dark. He knows the villa and the gate code.
2. 2Jeep to the rim. 4×4 up the caldera road, so you watch the light arrive instead of climbing through it.
3. 3Breakfast at the top. Hot coffee and something to eat, set up while you're looking the other way.
4. 4The 1963 lava field. Black rock that ran and then stopped. Genuinely strange, and almost always empty.
5. 5Hot springs, then home. A long soak, a coffee farm if you want one, and back before lunch.

A boat day, without the boat day

The public version is a schedule you share with forty people. The private one is a captain, a route, and the freedom to change your mind at eleven.

Handled by meCharter, captain, crew, lunch, snorkelling gear, transfers both ends.

What the day is

1. 1A boat that's only yours. Chartered for the day, with a captain I've used for years.
2. 2The route decided that morning. Chosen on the swell and the wind, not on a printed itinerary.
3. 3Lunch on board. Cooked, not packed. Anything you don't eat, I told them about in advance.
4. 4Somewhere to swim, alone. The point of a private boat is being where the day trips aren't.
5. 5Back for the light. In before sunset, because the run home in the dark is nobody's favourite hour.

Dinner where you're staying

The best meal of most trips isn't in a restaurant. It's the night nobody had to get in a car, and nobody had to be anywhere by eight.

Handled by meChef, shopping, service, wine if you'd like it, and the kitchen left the way it was found.

What the day is

1. 1A chef who cooks your food. A menu built around what you actually like, agreed a few days ahead.
2. 2They arrive, you don't move. Shopping, prep, service and the washing up. You're a guest in your own villa.
3. 3The table, done properly. Set outside if the weather holds, moved without drama if it doesn't.
4. 4Nothing to settle. Arranged and paid through me. No card at the end of the evening.