VacationSol
Travellers in a rowing boat on the Ganges at sunrise, Varanasi
India

India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Malaysia. Nowhere else, on purpose.

Private travel for people who want a decision made well, not a menu to work through.

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Most of India can be booked from a screen. The flights, the well-known hotels, the sights everyone has already seen.

What cannot be booked from a screen is judgement.

Which driver to trust on a mountain road.

Which room faces the right way at dawn.

Which festival is worth changing the whole plan for.

Who to call when something goes wrong at midnight.

That is the part we have spent a career learning. It is the part we sell.

Four countries, chosen deliberately.

India comes first, with a career on its roads and a contact in nearly every state. Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Malaysia follow, each run with a single operator we have chosen ourselves and work with directly.

An ornate, empty palace hall in Jaipur

Planned by us, run by us.

We talk. A planning fee starts the work.
We design a private plan, and revise it until it is right.
We run it, one contact reachable while you travel.

Five people or more. Good.

Most operators get nervous past a couple or a small family. We built for the opposite: multi-generational trips, milestone birthdays, parties large enough that one bad transfer would ruin everyone's week. It is the work we enjoy most, and it shows in the planning.

A couple in wedding attire holding hands on a coastal cliff at sunset

Two people. Also good.

Honeymoons are planned here with one rule: you should see a great deal of each other and remarkably little of everyone else. Rooms placed with intent, tables at the quiet end, and whole afternoons left empty on purpose.

No husband required.

Some trips are for the two of you. Others are best taken with your friends, while the significant other holds the fort and hears about it later. For women travelling alone or together: female guides on request, drivers we have known for years, and nobody to compromise with on the itinerary.

Two friends laughing together while taking a photo by the water

Quiet by design.

No branded signage, no tagging, no story shared unless you ask us to share it. While you travel, one person stays reachable at any hour, and stays the same person if a flight moves or the weather turns.

What others say about us.

We got to travel, enjoy, and safely return home, which is really all that matters in the end. We are most definitely going to continue traveling in that region, and we will seek your advice for future travels, especially India.
Yossi, USAFamily trip in Sri Lanka & Malaysia
Sample journeys

See how a journey reads.

Worked examples, named house by named house, day by day. Each one a starting point we build again around you.

Explore the journeys

Named houses, chosen by hand

Sofitel Legend Metropole · Capella · Villa Samadhi, and houses chosen like them. The Maharajas' Express and the Palace on Wheels, when the route earns them.

The people behind your trip.

Akshat Chauhan
Akshat Chauhan
Journey designer

A trip is judgement made concrete: the right room, the right guide, the right hour of the day, chosen for the people travelling.

Sanjeet Singh
Sanjeet Singh
Operations Head

The list stays short on purpose, so every trip gets the attention it deserves. Better to turn good work away than run a trip we are not proud of.

Start with a conversation.

Tell us about the trip you have in mind, or the clients you would like us to look after.

Plan a private trip

VacationSol. Private travel in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and Malaysia.