Travel as a Very Important Gay. Priority suite upgrades, gourmet breakfasts, and generous resort credits at 5-star properties that genuinely welcome same-sex couples.
Your journey, designed around who you actually are. Every itinerary is built around you: your style, your pace, your partner's preferences, the milestones on the horizon.
We work with inclusive luxury resorts and tour operators that afford same-sex couples the same warm welcome as anyone else.
Mr Hudson is gay-owned and gay-operated, and that shapes every journey we design. We plan for a traveler we intimately understand — because, quite simply, he is us. The man who chooses a hotel for the art on the walls as much as the view from the room. Who cares about the wine list before the tasting menu. Who finds real pleasure in the considered details: the resort that sits exactly right in the landscape, the staff who remember how you take your coffee on the second morning.
Our clients share a sensibility. An eye for beauty. A feel for thoughtful design. A curiosity about the cultures they move through rather than past. They travel often, and they travel well. And they tend to know the difference between true luxury and the mere performance of it.
Whether you’re traveling solo or as a couple, celebrating a milestone or simply in need of somewhere extraordinary, we design each journey around who you actually are, and what you want exploration to feel like.
Every detail uniquely yours
La dolce vita, elevated
Safari artfully redefined
Ancient splendor reimagined
Celtic grace, intimately curated
Indulge in VIP treatment from the best brands in the business
Lee’s honeymoon to Greece
"A wonderful travel experience begins with thoughtful planning. From the very first step Bastiaan got to know us both - what we liked, what we didn't, and drew out of us angles of the experience ahead we hadn't even thought of. That turned into a trip plan like no other and something I could have never created on my own. The personal concierge service available while we were traveling was invaluable. There is no doubt we picked the absolutely best partner to work with. Don't make your trip a 'DIY trip'. Work with Mr Hudson and you will have the experience of a lifetime!"
Ben’s global adventures
"I’ve come to rely on Mr Hudson as a go-to resource for tasteful, thoughtful, and truthful travel advice and support. It’s difficult to cut through so much travel content and reviews online, so Mr Hudson’s curated city guides and custom booking services help to make travel planning far easier and more efficient. And I feel more confident knowing that what I’m booking will not only be aligned to my taste and expectations, but will also be LGBTQ friendly. I’ve used the service on many continents with success, including trips with my parents."
Brent’s Ireland journey
"Bastiaan has now planned two great travel experiences for my husband and I in the past six months. The amount of time and effort he and his team put into the planning led to trips that were flawless. He never failed to respond almost immediately to any question or concern that I emailed him. The quality of the most recent trip to Ireland still amazed us as we share our travel stories with friends. We only had a week to spare, and he designed a trip where we stayed at three of the best resorts in Ireland with one of them being possibly one of the best resorts in Europe (Adare Manor). We do not hesitate in recommending Mr Hudson to our friends."
Our clients are, for the most part, gay men — couples and solo travelers in their forties, fifties, and sixties, based predominantly in the United States. They are executives, founders, creatives, and senior professionals who travel often and expect five-star as a baseline. They have outgrown the big-brand group tour, they have no interest in circuit parties, and they want their travel to reflect who they are rather than who an algorithm assumes they should be. We also work with allies, couples of any composition, and solo women travellers who share the same sensibility.
Mr Hudson’s origins are in sophisticated gay travel, and that remains the heart of what we do. But our expertise extends to any discerning traveler who shares our sensibility — solo women, couples of any composition, allies, multi-generational families celebrating together. What unites our clients isn’t identity but taste: an appreciation for design, culture, and the quieter forms of luxury.
Two things, mainly. First, perspective — we are gay-owned and gay-operated, which means we design from the inside rather than adapting from the outside. We understand, without being told, why the welcome matters, and we recognise the difference between a property that accommodates same-sex couples and one that genuinely welcomes them. Second, specialism — our supplier relationships, our destination knowledge, and our in-trip recommendations are built around how our clients actually travel, rather than retrofitted from a generalist luxury playbook.
Labels matter less than outcomes. Many in our industry have adopted “travel advisor” to signal the sophistication of the work, which is fair, but we prefer to focus on what we actually deliver: deep expertise, privileged access, and itineraries designed around the person, not the template. Call it what you like; we call it doing the job properly.
International journeys, almost entirely. The Amalfi Coast in June. A first trip to Japan done properly. Safari in Botswana paired with a week on Mnemba. Scotland’s castle country in autumn. The Greek islands outside peak. Morocco, Thailand, Tanzania, Vietnam, the Maldives, French Polynesia. We design honeymoons, milestone anniversaries, significant birthdays, multi-generational gatherings, and the occasional well-earned fortnight with no particular occasion attached. A small share of our work is domestic — a Napa anniversary, an Aspen winter week — but the international trips are where our network, our partners, and our judgment earn their keep.
Frequently. A significant share of our work is shorter international trips for clients whose time is tighter than their budget — four or five nights in Tokyo for the design and the dining, a long weekend in London for theatre and tailoring, Copenhagen for the architecture, Paris for the art and fashion, Mexico City for the galleries and the mezcal. City breaks are not a lesser category; they’re often where taste shows most clearly, and we plan them with the same care as a two-week safari.
Gladly — it’s among our most rewarding work. Milan Design Week paired with a few days on Lake Como. A Venice Biennale weekend done without the crowds. A Kyoto itinerary that moves between ryokan, temple, and the quieter craft studios the guidebooks miss. A Marrakech week across three riads. Cape Town for the art galleries, the Cape Winelands, and the contemporary South African design scene. These are the trips we most enjoy designing, and often the trips our clients remember most fondly.
Anything that calls for care. Urban sojourns, exclusive resort stays, safaris, private yacht charters, wellness retreats, honeymoons, milestone celebrations, extraordinary adventures. Share what you have in mind — even loosely — and we’ll shape it from there.
It’s some of the work we most enjoy. A proposal in Paris, an anniversary in the Maldives, a significant birthday in a private villa in Tuscany. We orchestrate the details — exclusive venue access, bespoke experiences, the thoughtful touches that turn a trip into a memory — while keeping the whole affair elegantly understated. Grand gestures rarely need to announce themselves.
Because the booking is only part of the job. Through our partnerships with Virtuoso and Departure Lounge and our relationships with the world’s finest hospitality brands, we unlock benefits that aren’t available through online channels: priority suite upgrades, gourmet breakfasts, resort credits, and the kind of recognition at check-in that changes the shape of a stay. Four Seasons Preferred, Marriott Luminous & Stars, Belmond Bellini Club, Hyatt Privé, Rosewood Elite — our membership in these elite programmes delivers privileges that transcend rate parity, all at preferred rates.
The dreaming phase is a pleasure — we wouldn’t take it from you. But orchestrating a seamless trip at this level requires expertise and access that simply aren’t available to the individual traveler, however resourceful. We transform your vision into reality, secure the privileges, and handle the thousand small decisions that separate a good trip from a great one. Consider us your personal curator. You bring the imagination, we bring the apparatus.
It begins with a conversation. We ask about your travel history, your standards, your partner’s preferences, any milestones on the horizon, and the mood you want the trip to carry. From there, we build a bespoke proposal — usually within two weeks — with hand-selected properties, routing, premium-cabin flight options, and pricing. We refine together until the itinerary is exactly right, then we book every element through our preferred partnerships so that your suite upgrades, resort credits, and gourmet breakfasts are built in. You travel with a detailed digital itinerary and in-trip concierge access for anything that comes up along the way.
Six months is a comfortable lead time for most international trips. For peak-season Italy or Greece, for Japan in cherry-blossom or autumn-color season, and for safari anywhere in Africa, plan up to twelve months ahead: The best properties book out early, and our relationships work best when we have time to use them properly. Shorter lead times are not deal-breakers; we have put together exceptional trips on four weeks’ notice. But the longer the runway, the better the result.
Every property in our portfolio has been vetted — by our team in-person, or through long-standing relationships with suppliers we trust on the ground. We ask specific questions about training, about how same-sex couples are booked into rooms by default, and about how staff handle check-in. This matters most in destinations where local attitudes sit some distance from the ones our clients take for granted at home. If a property doesn’t pass that quiet test, it doesn’t enter our portfolio, however celebrated the brand above the door.
We request a planning fee to support the consultation, research, and bespoke proposal that go into each journey. The investment typically pays for itself many times over through the privileges and upgrades we secure. For straightforward luxury hotel or cruise bookings, we extend our services without additional charge.
Our clients generally invest from around $1,500 per person per day for the on-the-ground trip elements — hotels, transfers, experiences, guides — with international premium-cabin flights additional. We’re transparent about pricing from the first proposal, and we’ll tell you plainly if your expectations and your budget aren’t currently in conversation with each other.
The planning fee is collected before we begin work on your proposal. Travel arrangements follow each supplier’s own schedule. Some require card details to hold a reservation, others request deposits at booking. We’re transparent about payment terms and cancellation policies before processing anything.
Luxury properties maintain rate parity across channels, so genuine price variations are rare. When they do appear, we work with our partners to match competitive rates. More meaningfully, our relationships mean that properties prefer to extend their best privileges — the upgrades, the credits, the recognition — through our bookings rather than through online channels. The rate is rarely where the real value lives.
Yes — it’s the heart of the work. Through our partnerships with leading brands like Four Seasons, One&Only, Belmond, Rosewood, Relais & Châteaux, Preferred Hotels and Resorts, and Small Luxury Hotels of the World, we secure benefits and recognition that transcend the booking itself. Intimate boutique properties, urban retreats, safari lodges, coastal estates: each is chosen for what it offers beyond the obvious.
Indeed. Our partnerships span the sophisticated end of the category — The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn, Silversea, Virgin Voyages — as well as private yacht charter in the Mediterranean and Caribbean and expedition voyages to the poles. We’ll tell you honestly which ships suit you and which don’t; the wrong cruise is a long week.
Yes, and it’s a category we take seriously. Centuries-old estates in Tuscany, contemporary beachfront villas in the Caribbean, Alpine chalets, urban penthouses — you name it. Where useful, we layer in dedicated staff, private chefs, and bespoke experiences to transform a stay into something closer to a private house party than a rental.
We do, and we particularly recommend us for premium-cabin reservations. Through Departure Lounge we access contracts that often yield meaningful advantages on international first and business class, as well as private aviation. Managing your air arrangements through us also means we can intervene directly when schedules shift mid-trip — a small detail that matters enormously when it matters at all.
We’re unable to incorporate points, miles, or loyalty rewards into our bookings. The trade-off is that we secure privileges and recognition through our preferred channels that loyalty programmes, in most cases, don’t match.
We offer our journey design service exclusively as part of a complete travel arrangement, which includes hotel or cruise reservations at a minimum. Flights, transfers, and tours remain optional. This allows us to secure the access and maintain the standards that define our work.
Throughout the planning, our team is available by email and website chat during office hours. You’ll depart fully briefed, with detailed documentation and the kind of insider recommendations that elevate a trip from good to memorable.
We’re a boutique agency, and we’re candid about what that means: we don’t operate our own 24-hour concierge. What we do instead is arrange comprehensive on-the-ground support through trusted local partners in each destination: people we know personally, who know how we work. Most of our luxury hotel and cruise partners also offer dedicated guest services that pick up where ours leaves off.
The world’s most compelling places, from storied capitals and cultural centers to remote wilderness retreats and coastal enclaves. Our deepest expertise lies in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America, built through years of first-hand travel and trusted partnerships. Where a destination falls outside our immediate experience, we draw on our broader network of specialist partners to ensure the same standards throughout.
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