Porter and Olive Luxury Travel

10/30/2026

An insider tip from us to you: the best time to start planning a seasonal escape is right when the season ends.

7Pines Sardinia just closed its doors for the season, but the savvy traveler is already dreaming about next spring and summer: sun-soaked coves, La Maddalena views, and a table at Michelin-starred Capogiro. 🍷

Doors reopen in late April 2027 — so save this reel, send it to the person you’d want on that terrace with you, and let’s get you first pick of dates. 🌊

10/29/2026

Explore Japan through contemporary art on remote islands, centuries-old bathhouses, and restaurants serving impeccably fresh seafood and seasonal ingredients. 🇯🇵✨

From Honshu to Hokkaido and Kyushu, let’s work together to plan a journey that showcases the many sides of Japan ➡️ https://virtuoso.com/advisor/jubisliv22424/travel/destinations/asia/Japan

10/29/2026

This is what October is supposed to look like.

Golden fields, a ridgeline in full color, wood smoke drifting between the cabins. Wildflower Farms, Auberge's retreat in New York's Hudson Valley, delivers all of it about 90 minutes from the city.

The 140-acre working farm spreads out below the Shawangunk Ridge, with 65 freestanding cabins and cottages designed to frame the view, and Travel + Leisure readers just voted it the #1 hotel in New York State, with a Michelin Key to go with it.

In fall, the whole property leans into the season with harvest dinners, hikes through the Gunks in full color, bonfires, c***r, and mornings cold enough to justify the fireplace.

Fall weekends here disappear quickly. Message us before they do.

10/28/2026

Fun fact about planning Peru: the smartest thing you can do at 11,000 feet is pick a hotel that breathes for you.

Here's the order we recommend to clients. Land in Cusco, head straight down to the lower Sacred Valley, and save Cusco for the end of the trip once you've acclimatized. Then check into Palacio Nazarenas, where every suite is enriched with extra oxygen, and those final nights feel easy instead of breathless.

The hotel itself is a 16th-century palace-turned-convent on a peaceful plaza just above Cusco's main square. All suites, original Inca stonework running through the walls, and a heated outdoor pool that was the first of its kind in the city. Not bad for a building older than most countries.

Peru tops almost every wish list we see. Let's get yours on the calendar.

10/28/2026

Forty browser tabs, three AI chats, and a trip that still doesn't feel decided.

Keep asking. AI is good at the early part: gathering ideas, comparing regions, working out what kind of trip you're actually in the mood for, drafting the packing list. Bring all of it to us. A screenshot of ideas is a head start.

Here's where the handoff happens. AI hands you pieces: a hotel, a restaurant, a train. Fitting them together is the work. That means knowing which city goes first so the long-haul flight lands on an easy day, which room category is worth the jump, and why the famous restaurant belongs on your last night rather than your first. The upgrades, credits and amenities come through our partner relationships, attached to how the stay is booked rather than the hotel's website.

Forty tabs of pieces. One trip that fits.

10/27/2026

The nostalgic Paris-to-Istanbul sleeper is getting a new chapter in 2027. L’Orient Express will retrace the legendary route of its predecessor, bringing the romance of classic rail travel into a new era of luxury. 🚂🇫🇷

Read more, then reach out to plan your next getaway ⬇️

📷: Maxime D’Angeac and Martin Darzacq

The Paris-to-Istanbul train reboots with modern design and a luxe onboard experience.

10/26/2026

A basket boat drifting through the nipa palms, ten minutes from Hoi An's lanterns.

Namia River Retreat sits on its own islet in the Thu Bon River, a ten-minute bicycle ride or short boat transfer from Hoi An's Ancient Town. All 60 villas have private pools, and the wellness is built into the rate. Every night includes a 90-minute journey: thirty minutes of herbal steam, then a sixty-minute Vietnamese therapeutic massage.

The treatments draw on thuốc Nam, Vietnam's own herbal medicine tradition, and at the apothecary you choose the herbs that go into yours. Even the islet's edges are held by mangroves instead of concrete.

Ten minutes from the lanterns, and entirely unhurried.

10/25/2026

Steam lifting off the travertine pools at Saturnia, the water already warm before Tuscany wakes up.

The internet calls it a glowcation. We call it a trip built around skin, rest and ritual, so you come home visibly better than when you left.

In Tuscany, Saturnia’s springs run at roughly body temperature all year, and the sulphur in the water is the point. In Seoul, the routine does the work. A layered facial in the morning, the heat rooms of a jjimjilbang (Korea’s 24-hour bathhouses) after, then Myeongdong, where the shelves stock the same serums your facialist just used. Bukchon’s hanok lanes are for walking it all off. In Thailand, therapists steam bundles of herbs and press them warm into tired muscles, a practice far older than the spa industry. On the Greek islands, the schedule is simply sea, sleep and long lunches.

Advisor note: the practitioners worth flying for book out weeks, sometimes months, ahead. Those appointments go in before the flights do.

Warm water, deep sleep, and nowhere you need to be.

10/24/2026

The pyramids in early light, before the plateau fills.

The Grand Egyptian Museum now displays Tutankhamun's entire tomb together, the first time since Howard Carter opened it in 1922. Nothing is in storage and nothing is on loan elsewhere. It's all in one building, fifteen minutes from the pyramids.

Start at Giza in the early hours, on private access arranged ahead of the crowds. Then sail the Nile on a private dahabiya, a traditional sailing boat small enough to moor at quiet riverbanks the big cruise ships pass by. In the Valley of the Kings, an expert Egyptologist reads the painted walls with you, scene by scene.

October through April is prime season on the Nile, and it starts now.

Four thousand years on the list. The best hour is still the first one.