Tweak as much as you want.
If you'd like to make changes to our itinerary, just give us your wish list. Whether you customize or not, you get great cultural experiences, the services of a local guide, and the fine accommodations and food you expect from Classic Journeys. Plus, you also have the luxury of traveling on your own terms without worrying about logistics or shepherding your group.

It's affordable for groups of any size.
We arrange Private Journeys for groups of all sizes…from one person and up. In the current travel market, we can offer you costs that compare very favorably with our published rates. Of course, final pricing is contingent on if or how custom you ask us to make the tour.

Ideas you can use from past guests
Families head off on private tours in France for unforgettable reunions. Couples get the one-of-a-kind honeymoons they dreamed of. Old friends who never see enough of each other spend a week together. Colleagues fulfill their educational or professional travel needs in style. Those are all perfect scenarios for Private Journeys. Be inspired by one of these stories or call us with your own unique idea. We're all about adapting to the needs of every guest!

• 4 Couples on 8 Custom Tours in 8 Years
• Grad-Level Professionals Complete Their Degrees
• A Family Re-defines the Family Reunion
• Parishioners Celebrate a Priest's 50th Anniversary
• A Custom Honeymoon to Remember
• Like-Minded Ladies on Agent-Sponsored Travel Series
• A Multi-Generational Trip of a Lifetime
• Graduate School Alumni Explore Ancient Rome’s Architecture

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Ideas you can use from past guests

Families head off on private tours in France for unforgettable reunions. Couples get the one-of-a-kind honeymoons they dreamed of. Old friends who never see enough of each other spend a week together. Colleagues fulfill their educational or professional travel needs in style. Those are all perfect scenarios for Private Journeys. Be inspired by one of these stories or call us with your own unique idea. We're all about adapting to the needs of every guest!

• 4 Couples on 8 Custom Tours in 8 Years
• Grad-Level Professionals Complete Their Degrees
• A Family Re-defines the Family Reunion
• Parishioners Celebrate a Priest's 50th Anniversary
• A Custom Honeymoon to Remember
• Like-Minded Ladies on Agent-Sponsored Travel Series
• A Multi-Generational Trip of a Lifetime

4 Couples on 8 Private Tours in 8 Years
Friends who travel together stay close. These are the kinds of friends we'd all like to have: the couple have arranged for their group of friends from Brooklyn and New Jersey to travel with us each year for the last eight years. Trips are always a custom variation on one or more of our existing trips. They prefer to walk a little less and spend more time on cultural and museum explorations. Trips have included multiple private tours of Italy (including Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast and Sicily), France, Turkey and Greece, Spain, the UK, and Alaska.

Grad-Level Professionals Complete Their Degrees
A major East Coast university ends a two-year graduate-level agri-business program with a professional travel experience. Classic Journeys arranged a week-long Private Journey to Costa Rica. The goal of the visits is to explore the agriculture, infrastructure and culture of the region visited, and the close cultural connections we establish in each region enabled us to construct a targeted itinerary in record time. The 27-person private tour of Costa Rica based on our cultural walking adventure featured face-to-face visits with small-scale farmers and cooperatives, a dinner with the former President of Costa Rica in his home, as well as visits to directors of the central bank, the main post office, a university, and a hospital. Our local guide is himself a farmer who has degrees in biology and international relations. The activities he led included rain forest walks and a picnic lunch serenaded by the Costa Rican National Symphony. Powered by that success, the university subsequently commissioned Classic Journeys to create a similar travel program to Italy.

A Family Re-defines the Family Reunion
After traveling with Classic Journeys to the Czech Republic and Austria, two of our favorite guests asked us to create a trip for their extended family of 15 (teenagers through grandparents). Their destination was the belt of islands north of Seattle—the San Juan and Orcas Islands on the U.S side and Canada's Vancouver Island. Their memorable family gathering featured sea kayaking with Orca whales, zodiac rides along the coast, swimming in hot spring pools under waterfalls, rainforest walks, a guided visit to Butchart Gardens, and a sea plane ride from San Juan Island to Victoria on Vancouver Island. They've now joined us on five trips in all, including a second Private Journey for the family to Costa Rica.

Parishioners Celebrate a Priest's 50th Anniversary
Travel is a fantastic way for friends, neighbors or family to celebrate a landmark event. Dozens of guests from a single parish preceded a private tour to Tuscany and the Cinque Terre with a custom tour of Rome. Of course, we arranged a Papal visit, as well as two days in Venice at the end of the journey. The tour—organized by one industrious member of the parish—included free space for the priest whose anniversary it commemorates. Classic Journeys provided marketing material so that a group of about 150 interested households could receive information on the trip. We also provided expert support from our Tour Operations Coordinator so that prospective travelers could ask questions before reserving.

A Custom Honeymoon to Remember
One couple took the most enviable month-long honeymoon. At their request, Classic Journeys assigned a dedicated team of colleagues to research and prepare itinerary options and to implement the program. The final journey included elements from our Thailand tour and Vietnam & Cambodia tour. The highlights they'll reminisce about for years included visiting local hill tribes by boat, a day learning to be an elephant trainer, a private balloon ride over Angkor Wat, and river rafting in Bali. Accommodations included the Four Seasons in Bali and the Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor.

Like-Minded Ladies on Agent-Sponsored Travel Series
For a travel agent who has been traveling with us since 1998, Classic Journeys has organized eight different private guided tours to destinations she selects for her female clientele. The emphasis is on lots of high-energy walking options every day, while not giving up any of our cultural interactions, guided shopping time, as well as great food, wine and accommodations each night. The group has traveled with us on private tours to France, Italy, Vietnam & Angkor Wat, Croatia's Dalmatian Coast, India, and Croatia's Istrian Peninsula. In 2009, they headed to Morocco, on a tour customized with a cooking instruction at a private farm in the Middle Atlas Mountains, henna painting and a pottery-making workshop.

A Multi-Generational Trip of a Lifetime
We're happy to be as creative and extravagant as your circumstances permit. Classic Journeys recently crafted a custom tour of Italy ranging from the Amalfi Coast to Rome for a family of 16 that included grandparents, plus adult daughters, their husbands and the grandchildren. Ages were 3 months to 70s. We paired five days from our Amalfi Family Journey with 5 custom days in Rome. Arrangements included four full-time guides, two minicoaches, and a full-time nanny. We even took over a 5-star villa hotel for five nights for the family's private use and chartered a yacht for a day of exploring along the Amalfi Coast. In Rome, we arranged a private visit to the Vatican and its museums including the Sistine Chapel.

Graduate School Alumni Explore Ancient Rome’s Architecture
The challenge: Create a professional-caliber exploration of some of the Roman Empire’s finest landmarks for the alumni of a university’s engineering school. And blend the technical with the cultural pleasures of Italian travel to create an itinerary that the pros and their traveling companions would all enjoy. Classic Journeys arranged private visits to key sites in Rome, Naples, Pompeii and Campania. We engaged leading experts in engineering, architecture and history. And we included the full time services of a local guide to offer insights into contemporary ltalian life—and to provide alternate activities in spectacular locales like Positano and Ravello. Read about more alumni travel programs