Florida With Children

Eight nights down Florida's Atlantic side, with a private car throughout. Walt Disney World with a private guide who collects you from the hotel, Universal with its backstage stories, a day behind the gates of the Kennedy Space Center with an astronaut, then Henry Flagler's Palm Beach, the street artists of Wynwood and the Everglades.

Length: Eight nights
Pace: Three stays
Style: Family, theme parks, coast, city
Route: Orlando to Palm Beach to Miami

OrlandoThree nights
Palm BeachTwo nights
MiamiThree nights

A wooden pier and gazebo in silhouette on a still lake at dusk, with palm trees and a pink and blue sky.

Days 1 to 4 · three nights

Orlando

Met at the airport and driven to Orlando. A day at Walt Disney World with Disney's own private tour guide, door to door from the hotel and across more than one park if you wish, for a party of up to 10. Another at Universal Studios on its private guided experience, with front-of-line access and, as available, stories and moments from backstage.

Where you stay

The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes

The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes sits within more than 500 acres of natural landscape, lakes and a farm on the Central Florida Parkway. The Grande Lakes Waterpark has waterslides, a lazy river and lagoons, Ritz Kids naturalists take children on guided walks, and the three-storey spa holds 40 treatment rooms.

A wide sandy beach at low tide with gentle waves, palm trees along the shore and soft clouds overhead.

Days 4 to 6 · two nights

Palm Beach

On the drive south, a behind-the-scenes visit to the Kennedy Space Center with a former astronaut: Fly With An Astronaut goes behind the gates, to lunch and onto the Shuttle Launch Experience together. In Palm Beach, a private guided bicycle ride and Whitehall, Henry Flagler's Gilded Age house, now the Flagler Museum.

Where you stay

The Breakers Palm Beach

The Breakers stands on 140 acres of oceanfront in Palm Beach, founded by Henry M. Flagler in 1896 and rebuilt in 1926 on the model of the Villa Medici in Rome. There is a private beach, pools, golf and tennis, family activities, and restaurants including HMF and the Seafood Bar.

A fishing pier running out from a sandy point, with high-rise towers on the shore and the sea in the foreground.

Days 6 to 9 · three nights

Miami

A street-art walk in Wynwood with a local artist and a spray-paint workshop of your own, an airboat ride and wildlife in the Everglades, or a full day there with a private naturalist, on foot under the cypress and out on the water, and a day on a private yacht on Biscayne Bay before the flight home. One full day can be spent at sea on a private research vessel with marine biologists, taking part in their shark conservation work as it happens. On Ocean Drive, a private walk with a preservationist through the Art Deco district, with access to selected historic interiors. In the Everglades, rangers lead programmes at Royal Palm, Flamingo and Shark Valley, where a two-hour narrated tram runs the 15-mile loop.

Where you stay

Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club

On the Atlantic in Surfside, Four Seasons Hotel at The Surf Club occupies a club that first opened on New Year's Eve 1930. Rooms are by Joseph Dirand, bungalows follow the original vision of architect Russell Pancoast, daytime cabanas line the historic Cabana Row, and Lido Restaurant serves Italian food.

Arranged on request

Fly With An Astronaut

A guided tour behind the gates of the Kennedy Space Center, lunch, and the Shuttle Launch Experience with an astronaut.

Disney with a private guide

Disney's private guided tour of seven to 10 hours, door to door from the hotel, across several parks if you like, for a party of up to 10.

Universal, privately

Universal's private guided experience for up to six: your own guide, front-of-line access, meals, reserved show seating and, subject to availability, backstage moments.

Wynwood with an artist

Four hours with a local artist through the Wynwood district, ending with a hands-on graffiti session.

Shark tagging with marine biologists

A full day on a private research vessel off Miami, joining marine biologists in their shark conservation work at sea. Arranged on request.

The Everglades with a naturalist

A private day in the Everglades with a naturalist, walking under the cypress and going out on the water. Arranged on request.

Subject to availability.

Ways to make it yours

Two nights in the Florida Keys to finish, with a private after-hours visit to Ernest Hemingway's house in Key West and dinner in its gardens at sunset, on request, and on the way down a private visit to the Turtle Hospital in the Lower Keys with a marine biologist, on how injured sea turtles are treated and returned to the sea.
A second day in the Orlando parks.
A boat tour from Flamingo into Florida Bay or the Everglades backcountry.

This is a sample. The hotels, the pace and the order are where we start, not where we finish: every journey is designed around the people taking it.

Made around you

Most travel is bought. This is designed.

Before anything is booked, we talk: who is travelling, how you like to spend a morning, and the hotel preferences below the obvious, from the kind of bath you like to the time you wake and how much daylight you need in a room. You see options where options matter and clean recommendations where they don't.

The same person remains your point of contact from the first reply to the trip after next. No handovers. No team.