CURATED TRAVEL
Travel With The
Right Company
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The Curated Companion brings together small, hand-selected groups of like-minded
travelers for immersive journeys built around shared passions. Intimate, beautifully considered retreats for women who are ready to put themselves on the itinerary designed around the things you love, with the people you've been waiting to meet.
Whatever moves you, we find the people who feel the same way.
Travel, the way it was meant to feel.
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You've spent years planning everyone else's good time the holidays, the carpools, the celebrations. The Curated Travel Companion is where you finally hand the planning to someone else and simply arrive.
Every retreat is small by design and considered down to the last detail: the right hotel, the right table, the right pace, and a circle of women who light up at all the same things you do. No spreadsheets. No splitting checks in your head. No keeping up with anyone. Just beautiful days, unhurried, in places worth lingering.
Part luxury escape, part the kind of friendships you didn't know you were missing and entirely yours.
Our
Retreats
Everything considered. Nothing rushed.
From the moment you arrive, the details are handled. Luxury accommodations chosen for character, not just stars. Experiences you couldn't easily arrange on your own.
Reservations secured at the city's most sought-after tables. And just as importantly open hours that are entirely yours, to wander, to rest, or to play one more round.
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It's the rare kind of trip that asks nothing of you but to be present.
Our
Story
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Built by travelers who believe the right company changes everything.
The Curated Companion was founded on a single belief, that the most extraordinary travel experiences happen when passionate, like-minded people come together around something they love.
We are not a tour operator. We are not a travel agency. We are a curation company. We find the people, design the experience, and create the conditions for something remarkable to happen.
Traveling everywhere worth going.
People
Our
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Heidi Ferrell
A lifelong traveler with a passion for tennis, mahjong, and the art of bringing people together, she believes the best adventures are the ones shared, and she's always game for both the challenge and the joy. Seafood in Maine and any beach is usually at the top of her travel destinations.
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Your companion and curator of exeptional experiences.
Elize van Beljon
With a passion for travel, an expert eye for skincare and spas, a love of cooking, and a deep affection for mahjong, Elize brings beauty, wellness, and good company to everything she touches. Her favorite travel destinations include the Northern Lights and Champagne region, France.
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Your Companion
Judy Waitkus
A devoted mahjong expert with an artist's eye and a love of painting, Judy believes the best moments are the ones shared. Whether at the easel or the mahjong table, she's drawn to the same thing every time: the joy of community and genuine connection.
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Your Mahjong Expert
Shirley Cox
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A natural community builder with a love of pottery and all things New Mexico, Shirley is forever drawn to new cultural experiences and to the people who make them memorable.
Your Companion
Curated
Experiences
The moments you'll still be talking about. Every retreat is woven from experiences you couldn't easily arrange on your own, a sunrise above the vineyards, a morning practice as the tide rolls in, an afternoon that unfolds exactly as it should. Each one is chosen with intention and arranged down to the last detail, so all that's left for you to do is be there. These aren't items on an itinerary. They're the moments you'll carry home.
Hot Air Balloon Ride
Napa Valley, CA
Rise before the vineyards do. As the valley still sleeps beneath a blush of morning fog, you'll lift gently into a sky going gold, rows of vines unspooling below like stitching on green velvet, the hills soft in the early light. You'll come down to a champagne toast and a long, lingering breakfast among the vines, the whole valley already feeling like it belongs to you.
Tennis Tournament
Santa Barbara, CA
Under the easy California sun, against a backdrop of red-tile rooftops and swaying palms, you'll trade volleys on courts that have hosted a century of seaside summers. Whether you play to win or simply to laugh between points, the spirit here is the same, spirited, warm, and entirely unhurried. Afterward, there's chilled rosé in the shade and the slow satisfaction of a day well spent, the kind of afternoon that reminds you how good it feels to play again.
Yoga on the Beach
Naples, FL
The day begins where the water meets the sand. With the tide keeping time and the horizon stretched wide and open, you'll move through a gentle morning practice — toes in the sand, breath matched to the rhythm of the waves, the cares of home drifting somewhere out past the surf. It asks nothing of you but to arrive and be present.
