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By Season · Winter

Escape Winter Entirely

While the north goes dark, follow the sun south.

Winter is for leaving it behind. The Maldives at their calmest, French Polynesia private and warm, Patagonia in full austral summer. We send you where the light is — and arrange the new year somewhere it is still, gloriously, warm.

Signature Journeys

Points of departure.

Each of these is a starting point — not a package, not a fixed schedule. Your advisor reshapes it entirely around you.

The Maldives
01
Indian Ocean

The Maldives

A private-island house with its own reef, the sandbank set for two, and the season at its clearest and calmest.

Designed to your pace
French Polynesia
02
South Pacific

French Polynesia

Bora Bora and the Tuamotus, an overwater villa, and a lagoon that is, for a week, entirely your own.

Designed to your pace
Patagonia & the Atacama
03
Chile & Argentina

Patagonia & the Atacama

Austral summer in the far south — glaciers, private estancias, and the clearest night skies on earth.

Designed to your pace
Exclusive Access

Exclusive events.

Moments that aren't on any calendar you can book from — opened quietly, through relationships built over forty years.

New Year in the Southern Sun
Late December – January

New Year in the Southern Sun

Patagonia, Chile

The turn of the year under the Southern Cross, an estancia held for your party alone, the dark skies uncountable.

The Calm-Season Crossing
December – March

The Calm-Season Crossing

The Maldives

The Indian Ocean at its glassiest — a private dhoni, a marine biologist aboard, and reefs few charts have named.

Curated Journeys

Where winter never finds you

Five escapes into the southern summer — then arranged entirely around your idea of warmth.

The Maldives
Indian Ocean · Endless Summer

The Maldives

An overwater villa and warm water while the north freezes.

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Bora Bora
French Polynesia · The Lagoon

Bora Bora

Sun, a private motu, and the southern summer at its peak.

Designed to your pace Explore
Latin America
Atacama & Patagonia

Latin America

Deserts and glaciers under a high southern-summer sun.

Designed to your pace Explore
Thailand
Thailand · The Andaman

Thailand

A headland villa, warm seas, and December at its kindest.

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Mexico
Mexico · Pacific Winter

Mexico

A Careyes or Punta Mita villa, with whale season just offshore.

Designed to your pace Explore

Access, not availability.

Booking a warm hotel is the easy part. What makes the escape complete is access — the overwater villa held, the private motu, the southern summer at its peak — opened through forty years of relationships, never searched or booked.

The Maldives

An overwater villa and a house reef to yourselves while the north froze — reached by private seaplane.

Impossible to search — we made the call.
Atacama · Chile

A high-desert lodge under a southern summer sun, and a salt flat at dawn with no one else upon it.

Impossible to search — we made the call.

None of these were on any itinerary. Yours won't be either.

40 years of expertise · Virtuoso member · 2,000+ preferred properties · In-house advisors

No quotes. No obligation. A conversation.

Common Questions

Questions, answered.

There's no single right month — it depends on the experience you want. Your Forest Travel advisor, who has spent time on the ground in Escape Winter Entirely, matches the timing to your trip: the light, the harvest or season worth being there for, and the weeks the crowds haven't found.

Enough to travel unhurried. Rather than a fixed package, your advisor shapes the length around your pace and the moments that matter — a few unforgettable days or a slow, immersive fortnight.

Entirely. Every Escape Winter Entirely journey is built around you — private access, the stays that never list, pacing and introductions that only four decades of relationships unlock. Nothing is off the shelf.

Because an advisor opens what no platform can sell. Online platforms list what's already public — the same rooms and flights available to everyone. A Forest advisor opens what isn't: private after-hours access, the host who answers because they know us, pacing built around your life, and logistics that stay invisible. Over forty years we've built the relationships that turn 'impossible' into 'it's arranged.'

It begins with a conversation, not a quote. A dedicated advisor learns how you want to feel — not only where you want to go — then designs a journey around you and reshapes it freely as your plans evolve. There's no fee for the initial consultation and no obligation.

Discretion is built in. We work quietly, share nothing, and arrange private transfers, exclusive-use stays and after-hours access so you're never on public display. For clients who require it, every detail is handled under strict confidentiality.

Still Deciding?

Let a human help you choose.

Tell a private advisor how you like to travel and they'll point you to the right starting point — or design something entirely new.