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Private travel, personally curated
Private villas and exceptional resorts.
Arranged by hand: introductions to houses, hotels, and landscapes we know by name, held as one continuous stay, never as a catalogue.
Exclusive Villa Collection
A boutique house for more considered journeys.
We are not a marketplace. Exclusive Villa Collection is a boutique travel atelier for exclusive villa holidays and considered hotel stays: your dedicated advisor, preferred access, and the patience to understand how you wish to move through a place. Villas, hotels, yachts, and the spaces between them are arranged as a single, continuous stay.
A considered beginning
Where we can begin
A smaller selection of the houses and landscapes we open most often: Caribbean water, Italy, mountain & desert light, Japan, and private-island sanctuaries. The full library lives on Destinations.
Caribbean
Grenadines to Turks & Caicos
Mustique villa culture, Mandarin Oriental on Godahl Beach, and Amanyara on Providenciales: three Caribbean stays we know by name.
Caribbean
Mustique
A private island that still behaves like one: villa terrace, cove below.
Turks & Caicos · Aman
Amanyara
Reef water and pavilion calm: Turks & Caicos when the Grenadines want a companion.
Canouan · Resort
Mandarin Oriental, Canouan
Signature Villas when you want the house, suites when the dining room should sit downstairs.
Where to next
Spin the globe
Every place we plan, from the Grenadines to Queen Maud Land: 126 destinations lit on one slowly turning night globe.
Why EVC
A boutique firm, not a portal.
- Your dedicated advisor Remains with the journey from the first conversation through your return home. No hand-offs, no ticket queue.
- Preferred access Introductions we would make for our own families.
- A concierge mindset Transfers, tables, and the unlisted hour between them, held as one itinerary.
- Curated with purpose Availability alone is never enough. Every stay must bring something distinctive to the journey.
Italy
Florence, Tuscany & Venice
Florence, the Tuscan countryside, and Venice on the Grand Canal: three ways into Italy we return to often.
Destinations & a house
Three ways into Italy
City light, countryside tables, and a Grand Canal palazzo, held as one continuous Italian week when you wish.
Mountain · Desert · Open now
Jackson Hole & Utah high desert
Amangani and Caldera House above Jackson Hole, Amangiri in canyon stone: mountain and desert houses with a clear sense of place.
Three stays
Snow, village, stone
American altitude on its own terms: Jackson Hole in depth, with the desert mesa beside it.
Jackson Hole · Ski
Amangani
Cliff-edge above the valley: firelight, a spa hour, and the mountain as one stay.
Jackson Hole · Village
Caldera House
Club suites and alpine residences at the tram: ski locker, firelight, and the mountain as the front door.
Utah · Desert
Amangiri
Stone, pool, and canyon light: a desert house held at its own pace.
Europe Alps
Courchevel & the Dolomites
Aman Le Mélézin in the Trois Vallées and Aman Rosa Alpina in Alta Badia: Europe’s alpine houses, held for winter and quiet summer alike.
Two stays
Piste and pale rock
Ski-in Courchevel calm and a San Cassiano village house, arranged with your advisor, not as a self-serve search.
Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto & Ise-Shima
City light, forest temple calm, and an onsen valley: three Japanese houses we open when a week wants pace without spectacle.
Three stays
Ritual rather than checklist
The Japan Rituals sequence we open first when a week wants pace without spectacle.
Tokyo · City
Aman Tokyo
A quiet house above the avenues: spa water, a café hour, and the city held at distance.
Kyoto · Forest
Aman Kyoto
Temple morning and garden light, and a forest pavilion when the city should fall away.
Ise-Shima · Onsen
Amanemu
Onsen valley and slow water: the third door when Japan should end in heat and quiet.
Photo courtesy of Dera Amer
The wider library
Further journeys, held with care
China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Mediterranean, Morocco, and the wider Americas, along with every destination we are prepared to discuss, live in the full Destinations library. An advisor will help you choose where to begin.
Island Sanctuaries
Pamalican, Islas Secas & Moyo
Amanpulo on Pamalican, Islas Secas in Panama’s Gulf of Chiriquí, and Amanwana on Moyo: private water as the week itself.
Three stays
Reef, buyout, tented camp
Private water as the week: Philippine reef, Panama archipelago buyout, and Moyo jungle-edge tents.
Pamalican · Private island
Amanpulo
Private-island Philippines: reef mornings, casita quiet, and an airstrip that is part of the romance.
Gulf of Chiriquí · Private island
Islas Secas
Panama buyout archipelago: Casa Cavada, casitas in the trees, and the Pacific as the front lawn.
Moyo Island · Tented camp
Amanwana
Jungle-edge tents off Sumbawa: diving mornings and island quiet far from Bali’s south.
Safari · Open country
Cottar’s & andBeyond
Two safari houses we open first, Cottar’s on the Maasai Mara and andBeyond across Namibia’s dunes and the Okavango, held as curated weeks.
Four stays
Mara, dunes, delta
Classic tented camp and exclusive-use villa in Kenya; desert lodge and Okavango concession in Namibia and Botswana, arranged with your advisor.
Cottar’s Safaris
Maasai Mara
Olderkesi Conservancy: vintage camp light and a hilltop villa facing the Mara and Serengeti horizon.
andBeyond
Namibia & Okavango
Desert light near Sossusvlei, then suite living above the papyrus on a private Okavango concession.
Signature journeys
Written as one continuous stay
Multi-stop weeks held by a dedicated advisor: sequenced houses and the quiet transfer between them.
A week in wild Alaska
Alaska, the mountains and the bay
A summer week in wild Alaska between two lodges with no road in: Tordrillo Mountain Lodge on Judd Lake, then Stillpoint Lodge in Halibut Cove, each reached by floatplane from Anchorage.
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A week in the interior
Antarctica, a week on the ice
White Desert’s longest Antarctic itinerary as one stay: Whichaway and the Blue Rivers, a flight to the South Pole with a night at 83° South, then Echo among the nunataks, flown from Cape Town.
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Paro, Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey
Bhutan, valley by valley
Eleven nights through Bhutan’s western and central valleys: a wellness pause at Bhutan Spirit Sanctuary near Paro, then four Six Senses lodges reached overland, the same guide and driver beside you all the way.
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Atlantic house, then red dunes
Cape Town & the Kalahari, Ellerman House to Tswalu
Seven nights from the Atlantic to the red dunes: Ellerman House above Bantry Bay, then one flight north to Tswalu Kalahari, where a private vehicle, guide and tracker come with every stay.
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Ten nights across Fiji
Fiji, three islands by air
VOMO in the Mamanucas, Kokomo on the Great Astrolabe Reef and Dolphin Island off Viti Levu: three private islands, each a short flight from Nadi.
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Ten nights in the bush
Greater Kruger & Madikwe, a safari in three lodges
Serondella in Thornybush and Tintswalo Safari in Manyeleti on the Greater Kruger, then a short flight to Jaci’s Private Lodge on the Marico River in malaria free Madikwe.
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Nepal, then Bhutan
Kathmandu to Paro, a Himalayan journey
Ten nights across two Himalayan kingdoms: The Dwarika’s Hotel in Kathmandu, Dwarika’s Sanctuary on the Dhulikhel hills, then Paro and Bhutan Spirit Sanctuary, fifteen minutes from the airport.
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Temple city, then cedar island
Kyoto & Yakushima, a Japanese journey
Eight nights from Kyoto’s Higashiyama district to Yakushima’s cedar forests: Six Senses Kyoto beside the Toyokuni Shrine gardens, then one flight south to sankara hotel & spa on the World Heritage island.
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A lake house, then the ridge
Lake Hayes & Lake Wanaka, two private houses
Seven nights in New Zealand’s Southern Lakes across two houses taken whole: Noa by the Lake on the slopes of Lake Hayes, then a brief helicopter flight to the Mahu Whenua homestead above Lake Wanaka.
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A week in the Swiss Alps
Lake Lucerne & the Matterhorn, a Swiss journey
A Swiss week in two privately run houses: Hotel Villa Honegg, alone at 914 metres above Lake Lucerne, then BEAUSiTE Zermatt, a hotel of 1907 in the car-free village below the Matterhorn.
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Alpine valleys, then the coast
New Zealand, from the Southern Alps to the Bay of Islands
Minaret Station by helicopter above Lake Wanaka, The Lindis in the Ahuriri Valley under dark skies, then north to Paroa Bay & Sage among the 144 islands of the Bay of Islands.
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A week in the Coral Triangle
North Sulawesi, a dive journey
A week of diving at the northern tip of Sulawesi: the coral walls of Bunaken from Siladen Resort & Spa, then a private boat, with two dives, to the pinnacles and macro of Coral Eye.
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Two islands by seaplane
Palawan & the Anambas, two private islands
Two private islands joined in about ten nights: Banwa, in the Sulu Sea east of Palawan, reached from Manila by air, then Bawah Reserve in Indonesia’s Anambas, reached from Singapore by ferry and seaplane.
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Lagoon, lake and mountain
Venice, Lake Garda & the Dolomites
About nine nights in northern Italy: Palazzo Papadopoli on the Grand Canal, an 1888 imperial hunting lodge at Gardone Riviera on Lake Garda, then 51 rooms and suites in San Cassiano, Alta Badia.
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Eight nights in Tuscany
Florence & Tuscany, eight nights
Eight nights in Tuscany as one stay: four at Hotel L’Orologio on Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence, then four at Villa Gran Sogno, an owner-kept house outside Castellina in Chianti.
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Eight nights in Japan
Japan Rituals, eight nights
Eight nights with Aman in Japan: two at the top of Otemachi Tower in Tokyo, three in Aman Kyoto’s forest garden at Takagamine, and three at Amanemu above Ago Bay in Ise-Shima.
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Eight nights by the water
Caribbean Water, eight nights
Eight nights on Caribbean water: Godahl Beach on Canouan, a Pavilion within the reserve on Providenciales at Amanyara, then the clifftop casitas of Amanera above Playa Grande on the Dominican north coast.
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Travel styles
How you wish to move
A point of view for the week: water, snow, a house that holds, or a boat that moves.
Plan My Trip
Begin with a conversation.
Tell us the season, the company, and the feeling you want to keep. We will write back with a considered path, not a link to a search.
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