Why Travel with Us

The Tailor is built top-to-tail around access, not packages. Its 'Tailor Exclusives' are experiences 100% exclusive to the company and impossible to book online or through anyone else: a Blue Mountains adventure with two-time Guinness World Record holder James Castrission, a private stay at Angorichina Station, an Arnhem Land Cultural Safari, a private R.M.Williams experience, and Hutton Vale Farm among them. Two decades of industry relationships also mean clients get the best available guides and private experiences away from other guests, with the company taking on only a limited number of journeys each year to protect that access.

Yes, private aircraft and yacht charter are recurring elements of The Tailor's journeys, not one-off add-ons. Examples include a 17-day itinerary built around private Pilatus PC-12 charter flights between destinations, a privately chartered Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft for an outback South Australia expedition, a month-long itinerary using private aircraft to link eight remote destinations, and multi-week private yacht and superyacht charters through Tasmania, the Kimberley and Western Australia's coast, including an 11-night itinerary aboard a 115ft superyacht.

The Tailor works with private travellers and families, taking on a limited number of journeys each year so each one has a Senior Travel Designer's full attention. That suits families wanting exclusive use properties, private guides and aircraft, discretion about their movements, and an itinerary paced for a group spanning teenagers to grandparents. Journeys generally start around AUD$1,500 per person per day for accommodation, touring and transfers, so a multi-week family journey sits comfortably into six figures.

The Tailor is an Australian-owned specialist that has designed private, tailor-made trips across Australia for more than 25 years. Every journey is built one at a time by a designer who lives here, around private guides, exclusive access and the stays that suit you, rather than a fixed program. Because Australia is the only country we plan, the trip is grounded in first-hand knowledge of the place, from the Kimberley to Tasmania.

Look for a company that plans Australia and only Australia, builds the whole trip around you rather than selling a set departure, and has the local relationships to arrange private guides, charter flights and access you cannot book from outside the country. That is what The Tailor does, with one designer holding your trip from the first idea to the last transfer.

Both can give you a comfortable trip. The difference is how it is built. A large operator works from set departures and a worldwide program. A specialist like The Tailor starts from a blank page and designs the trip around you, with the local depth to open doors that are otherwise closed. For a first, once-in-a-lifetime Australia trip, that local knowledge is usually what people are paying for.

A global operator runs Australia as one destination among many, which suits a multi-country itinerary handled by a worldwide brand. The Tailor designs Australia only, from an Australian base, and has done for more than 25 years. If you want a trip built by people who live here and know the country region by region, that is the difference.

A bespoke trip costs more than a packaged tour because it is designed around you and uses private guides, exclusive access and hand-picked stays rather than fixed departures. What you get for it is a pace that fits you, doors that are otherwise closed, and one team who knows your trip end to end. For a long-haul trip most people take once, that is usually where the value sits.