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.
Two occasions shape this window before anything else: Christmas and New Year in the Caribbean, where the staffed houses close months ahead, and Thanksgiving, the shortest planning window of the year.
Each of these is a starting point — not a package, not a fixed schedule. Your advisor reshapes it entirely around you.
A private-island house with its own reef, the sandbank set for two, and the season at its clearest and calmest.
Bora Bora and the Tuamotus, an overwater villa, and a lagoon that is, for a week, entirely your own.
Austral summer in the far south — glaciers, private estancias, and the clearest night skies on earth.
Moments that aren't on any calendar you can book from — opened quietly, through relationships built over forty years.
Five escapes into the southern summer — then arranged entirely around your idea of warmth.
An overwater villa and warm water while the north freezes.
Sun, a private motu, and the southern summer at its peak.
Deserts and glaciers under a high southern-summer sun.
A headland villa, warm seas, and December at its kindest.
A Careyes or Punta Mita villa, with whale season just offshore.
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.
None of these were on any itinerary. Yours won't be either.
No quotes. No obligation. A conversation.
Winter divides the world into sun and snow, and the finest of both are booked early and privately. Here is where to go in December through February, and what it typically starts from.
Read the guide →Go south or to the tropics. January falls in the Maldives' calm season, roughly December to March, and in the austral summer of Patagonia and the Atacama, where the New Year can be spent under the Southern Cross. Closer to the US, the Caribbean is in its December to April high season and Mexico's Pacific coast is in whale season, while Thailand's Andaman coast and French Polynesia, warm year-round, complete the list.
Somewhere whose best season is your winter. The Maldives are in their calm, dry season from December to March, Thailand's Andaman coast is dry and settled from November to April, Mexico's Pacific coast has whale season, and Patagonia and the Atacama are in their austral summer. For a long stay rather than a week, a staffed villa in the Caribbean or Mexico is the usual base.
Tell a private advisor how you like to travel and they'll point you to the right starting point — or design something entirely new.
A real person answers: an in-house luxury travel advisor, in English or Spanish. The first conversation is complimentary.
