Eighteen years spent understanding what is never quite said — designing India's finest honeymoons, romantic holidays, family vacations and wellness retreats for those who have already seen the world, and wish now only to feel it. The finest hotels, dining, experiences and shopping, arranged around the ones you love, before you've had to ask.
Whatever brings you together — a wedding vow, an anniversary, a family reunion, a season of rest.
One&Only Le Saint GéranA chapter written only once, designed so tenderly that nothing about it echoes anyone else's love story.
One&Only Reethi RahFor lovers who need no occasion at all — simply the ache to be alone together again.
Patina MaldivesMulti-generational journeys, woven with the same devotion, so grandparents and grandchildren alike feel equally cherished.
Waldorf Astoria MaldivesRetreats built around genuine recovery — a homecoming to yourself.
Explore the retreatsA beautiful room is easy enough to find. What's harder to arrange: a table held at a chef's counter with no seats left, a private hour inside a museum after the doors have closed, an introduction that turns a stranger into a host. This is less about booking a trip than about arranging entry — into rooms a search engine cannot open.
A name that opens a door most guests never see.
Private time in a place that closes to everyone else.
The seat that was never actually available.
Soneva FushiOverwater villas & lagoons
Katikies, SantoriniCaldera suites, sunsets made to linger
The Lodge, SwitzerlandLakeside romance, private mountain trains
Mahali Mzuri, KenyaPrivate camps, dawns shared in silence
Four Seasons SeychellesGranite coves & islands
Six Senses KyotoRyokans & the sound of tea poured slowly
Rosewood MatakauriFjords, vineyards, love in wide open air
St. Regis Bora BoraBora Bora lagoons & overwater bungalows
Aman Turks & CaicosCity nights meet barefoot, moonlit mornings
Rio Perdido, Costa Rica
Most of the people we travel with run lives that never fully switch off — calls that follow them onto the terrace, decisions waiting at the end of every holiday. A retreat done properly interrupts that.
And it is, more than anything, a joy: not a regimen, not a penance, but days in the care of people who have given their lives to this, in houses built to do nothing else. Seven that are worth the journey.
Local limestone, ancient olive groves, and a spa that treats happiness as a practice rather than a by-product. The whole wellbeing ecosystem is being shaped by Ian Bell — the hand behind the design and feel of the best resort-based wellness ecosystems in the world. Days that loosen you gently, from the first morning.
The Chiva-Som legacy, carried to the unspoiled shore of AMAALA's Triple Bay. Practitioners gathered from around the world tend to the body, the breath and the quiet mind across a 7,000 sq m sanctuary — its name means, simply, a place for the heart. You arrive carrying a great deal; you leave carrying less.
A river warmed from below by a volcano, running through a private reserve of forest and canyon. Let the water hold you, let the warm volcanic mud take the weight off your shoulders, and let sleep find you in a bungalow with a soaking tub of its own.
Twelve tented suites beside the Olifants River, deep in the Greater Kruger. Slow safaris, daily yoga, a kitchen that is entirely plant-based — and the rare permission to simply let it be, somewhere between wild life and a quieter way of living. All profits support a local non-profit.
Wellbeing programmes delivered since 1984, when a medical spa opened in the Tyrolean village of Lans. Diagnostics first, then days written for one person alone — rest, nourishment, movement — a method that has since followed to Tegernsee and the island of Sylt. For anyone ready to be properly looked after.
Sri Lanka's first purpose-built wellness resort, high in the hills near Kandy and shaped by what it calls the Architecture of Silence. Ayurveda tailored to your dosha, a kitchen that follows the six tastes, and a stillness the mountains seem to lend. Come to be quiet.
Long a pioneer of responsible travel in India, and keeper of Kalari Kovilakom, a two-century-old palace for Ayurveda. CGH Earth now turns to the Himalaya with Prakriti Shakti Tanmatra in Almora, Kumaon — around twenty rooms looking out to the mountains, in the naturopathy-led spirit of Prakriti Shakti, its Kerala sister. Mountain air and an unhurried pace. Worth asking about early.
Soneva Jani, Maldives
Four nights at Soneva Jani, four at Cheval Blanc Randheli — two entirely different declarations of love, written by the same turquoise ocean, split perfectly in half.
A few words, in their own voices, from the families and couples we've sent falling in love with the world.
All my business and family trips are handled by OceanHugs. As a professional photographer, I dig scenic beauty and architecture in my travels and they always manage to surprise me with amazing stuff.
Our association with OceanHugs goes back to 2012, and since then it's been Amit designing all our holidays. He's like that local friend who knows the city inside-out — he seems to be a local of a hell lot of cities! From suggesting where to go, what flight to take, activities to plan, and especially the best hidden gems in hotels — Amit will guide you through all.
Amit and his team are so good. From our romantic journeys to our big family travels, he makes it so much fun — from the day we start discussing to the day we come back, sit together and remember the highlights of our trip.
I am a surgeon, fashion enthusiast and a yoga addict. Just like my hobbies, my travel demands are equally diverse. Amit brings out so much joy in little experiences, it is unbelievable. We love him.
In my busy schedule, I rarely find time to spend with my family. Vacations are our time together, and we only trust OceanHugs to manage it for us.
My life revolves around my wife and kids. From my honeymoon till date, OceanHugs is our go-to for travel planning and booking.
Aman Tokyo[ It started for passion & stays that way. Money is incidental and not the goal. The joy is in sharing and delivering life-altering, heart-touching travel experiences. ]
Amanjena, Morocco[ We are still learning, still exploring, still growing up. We love & retain our beginners mindset where everything & everyone is worth it. Hence, we don't preach, we learn from your inspiration and share our knowledge. ]
Four Seasons Bora Bora[ We just love what we do! ]
Six Senses Fort Barwara[ 18 years already… we must be doing something awesomely right. ]
Sujan The Serai, Rajasthan[ The best deal is not our PLAYBOOK. We work with art, your feelings, your desires. Every destination, every hotel, every book, every meal, every song can cause unique reactions in our minds, we want to understand you, surprise you & then still put the sweetest deal on the table. ]
Founder, OceanHugs. Eighteen years designing journeys — and still the one you'll actually speak with.
Luxury Honeymoons is the honeymoon and romantic-travel identity of OceanHugs — a travel house that has been designing journeys since 2008, long enough to have learned that the best trips are rarely the ones built from a template. The same team, the same standards, extended to honeymoons, romantic holidays, family vacations and wellness retreats.
No — "Luxury Honeymoons" is simply the name people tend to remember us by first. Under the OceanHugs house, the same planners design four kinds of journeys: honeymoons, romantic holidays, family vacations, and wellness holidays, all held to the same standard of the finest hotels, dining, experiences and shopping, whoever you're travelling with.
Yes, and deliberately so. Before we design anything, we ask for a planning fee of ₹18,000 per person. It's non-refundable on its own — but it isn't really a separate cost either, since the full amount is adjusted against your final booking. In effect, you're not paying for advice you might not use; you're making a downpayment on a journey we haven't designed yet. It also does something quieter: it filters for travellers who are ready to plan seriously, on journeys where real design time is worth spending.
Honestly, the destination is rarely the point. We work across the Maldives, Seychelles, Santorini, Switzerland, Kyoto and Tokyo, African safari, New Zealand, French Polynesia, and Miami with Turks and Caicos — but naming them is really just geography. What we're actually designing is the sequence inside each day: which car is waiting, which butler already knows how you take your tea, which table is lit exactly as the sun goes down. We don't build bucket-list trips. A bucket list is a checklist to clear; what we build is closer to a feeling, engineered on purpose — food, transport, staff and surprise, all stitched together so nothing ever feels like it's being managed.
Four steps, deliberately unglamorous: your story, you choose, we refine, we handle everything. We ask before we assume — most travel planning goes wrong at the first step, not the last, by proposing before it has actually listened.
Because the best deal was never really the point. Two people can ask for "a week in the Maldives" and mean entirely different trips — a published package would have to average both of them into something neither one actually wanted. We'd rather have the conversation first, and quote second.
What we bring back from a property, a table, or a conversation worth remembering — written down before it's forgotten.
Rovinj instead of Dubrovnik, Slovenia from snow to sea, and a bay in Montenegro worth the whole trip.
What travel means to me: the people who leave an impression, and the conversations that matter for a long time to come.
Some relationships are measured in kilometres. This one is measured in chapters.
Tell us what your heart is imagining.
Every conversation, and everything that follows, stays entirely between us.