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Worldwide, multiple destinations

Scott DunnExplorers clubs take children from four months to eleven

Scott Dunn is a tailor-made travel company that builds family, honeymoon, ski, safari and island trips around a destination adviser and local ground teams. Its Explorers clubs take children from four months to eleven, grouped by age. Villas, nannies and connecting rooms are arranged alongside the itinerary.

There is no single base. Advisers work outward from the destination, booking international flights, private transfers and domestic legs around hotel check-in times. Ski and island trips also have to account for equipment limits and boat or aircraft baggage rules.

PlaceMultiple destinations
TypeTailor-made travel
SuitsFamilies and three generations
Stay7 or 12-16 nights

What a family holiday looks like from the club room

Worldwide, multiple destinations — Tailor-made travel company.

Explorers covers four months to eleven years, with activities grouped by age. What that means in practice changes hotel by hotel: each property sets its own accepted ages, opening hours and staffing, so the club name tells you less than the age bands and the daily timetable do.

Where the club sits shapes the day as much as what happens inside it. A bay hotel, a resort with a water park and an island jungle club run different programmes, and the route between your room and the drop-off point differs at each.

In Greece, the Cocoon at Costa Navarino serves both the Westin and the Romanos, in a resort built around beach, pools, sport and a water park. The club at Daios Cove on Crete sits at the centre of the resort, next to a gently sloping bay.

In the Maldives, Explorers at Niyama takes a jungle-and-circus theme, with local culture, nature and creative games built into the day. The names are the same; what a child actually does between breakfast and dinner is not.

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A table for two on a villa terrace before dinner
Hikers with packs on a trail above a lake, mountains behind them under broken cloud.
Walkers on a ridge above a lake, one of many terrains
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Villas, clubs and activities matched by age

Accommodation is chosen with the club in mind. At Costa Navarino in Greece, the Cocoon space serves guests at both the Westin and Romanos, and the wider resort adds beach, pools, sport and a water park to the same grounds. On Crete, the Daios Cove club sits at the centre of the resort, close to a gently sloping bay.

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Transfers, lift passes and mountain beds in one plan

Ski and remote trips need the transport solved before anything else is booked. Airport pickups, lift passes, equipment hire and mountain accommodation can be arranged as one sequence, with domestic legs tied to check-in times. Island transfers and internal flights run to their own departure conditions, so travel days get their own space.

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One adviser from first sketch to departure

The same person stays with the booking from the first conversation to the final adjustment before you fly. That matters when a connecting room turns out not to be free, or a club's upper age limit rules out the plan you had in mind. Questions go back to the adviser who built the trip, not to a new contact each time.

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Route

Building the trip before any of it is booked

One island or one ski resort usually runs seven nights. A multi-country route, a safari followed by an island, or a group spanning three generations is better at twelve to sixteen nights, because the transfers need room around them. This is the stage where the shape of the trip is decided, before any single hotel is fixed.

Putting seven nights, or sixteen, on the calendar

The booking works backwards from school terms and snow, so the calendar decides more than the map does, and dates come first.

Stay

Seven nights for a single island or ski holiday. Twelve to sixteen for a multi-country route, a safari plus island, or a multi-generational group.

Getting there

International flights, private transfers and domestic legs are joined around hotel check-in times. Ski and island trips also work around equipment limits and boat or aircraft baggage rules.

Season

Snow conditions, school holidays, safari animal seasons and tropical sea conditions set the window. Family routes need popular room types locked in earlier.

Watch out

Kids clubs, nanny cover, connecting rooms and activity age limits all vary by property. State the family's needs in full before any hotel is chosen.

Plan this into a journey

Tell us who is travelling, how old the children are and which months you can move. We will work the rest into a route.

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