With the Covid-19 pandemic anticipated to influence journey habits all through 2021, luxurious tour operators proceed rolling out new choices for closer-to-home and personal journey.
Among the many newest entries: extra home itineraries from luxurious biking tour operator DuVine Cycling + Adventure Co. and personal excursions of the Galapagos by Metropolitan Touring.
Whereas DuVine has all the time supplied excursions within the U.S., founder Andy Levine mentioned the corporate is responding to the pandemic by doubling its home bike excursions and introducing non-public villa packages.
The brand new itineraries embrace three, 4 and six-night journeys within the Shenandoah Valley, Maine, Vermont and the Hudson Valley, in addition to two new Maui journeys and a backcountry ski tour in Aspen. Lodging embrace luxurious mainstays just like the five-star, five-diamond Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Va., and Glen Gordon Manor, a mattress and breakfast within the coronary heart of Virginia’s horse nation.
Within the Galapagos, Metropolitan Touring is providing its first choice for utterly non-public and small group land excursions, which embrace non-public guides, outside eating experiences and chartered yachts and personal flights between islands.
The journeys begin in Quito with an evening at Casa Gangotena, a restored mansion overlooking Plaza San Francisco within the coronary heart of historic Outdated City.
The island-hopping begins with three nights on Isabela Island on the safari-style, 16-tent Scalesia Lodge. From there, knowledgeable guides will lead non-public excursions to distant areas inaccessible to cruise ships, together with the rim of the lively Sierra Negra Volcano and the Tintoreras Islets, recognized for its inhabitants of white-tipped reef sharks and Galapagos penguins.
Visitors then journey by non-public airplane to Santa Cruz for 4 nights on the Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel, the one beachfront property on the island. Excursions embrace non-public yacht charters to neighboring islands, kayaking via distant bays and walks via the Santa Cruz highlands, dwelling to the world’s lumbering big tortoise.
The Galapagos packages begin $11,148 for 2 and $5,350 per particular person for teams of six to 9, not together with flights between Quito and the Galapagos or the in a single day in Quito.
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