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The more specific your first message, the more useful our first reply. It helps enormously to know roughly how many people are travelling, the months you could realistically go, and whether you already have a region in mind or want a recommendation. A single line about the feeling you are after, quiet and restorative, active and outdoors, a group celebration, gives us more to work with than a list of places.

If you are a retreat leader writing on behalf of a group, tell us what you teach, how many places you would need to fill, and whether you have run a retreat before. If you are travelling as a family, a couple, or a group of friends, say so; it changes what we suggest first.

You do not need budget figures to start a conversation, but a range is genuinely helpful. It keeps our suggestions inside the realm of things you would actually book, and it saves everybody a round of polite guessing.

Every enquiry is read by a person and answered by one, usually within one business day.

Can a listed retreat be run privately for our group? Usually, yes. Most of our journeys can be arranged as a private departure and adjusted for the pace, dates and interests of a single group.

Do you plan trips outside the countries listed? We plan in Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America and the United States, and we are candid when a request falls outside what we can deliver well. If we are not the right people for a particular corner of the world, we will say so rather than improvise.

How far ahead should we be planning? Sooner than most people think, particularly for small camps and lodges in Botswana and Namibia and for peak-season Europe. Six to twelve months is comfortable for a group; shorter timelines are often still possible, and it costs nothing to ask.

Group enquiries move differently from individual ones. Before anything can be held, we need an approximate headcount, a window of dates and a sense of the standard of accommodation your travellers will expect, because those three things together determine what is available at all.

From there we would normally talk once, agree the shape of the week, and only then start confirming specifics. Leaders often want to announce a retreat before it is fully built; we will tell you which details are safe to publish early and which ones tend to change.

One point of contact handles your enquiry from that first message through to the end of the trip. If you have written to us before, mention it and we will pick up where the last conversation stopped rather than starting you again from the beginning.