Luxury Holidays to Turkey | Luxury Travel in Turkey, Istanbul
"After
a two-year, $30 million renovation,
Istanbul’s Pera Palace is back on top. Built
in 1892 to host passengers of the
Orient-Express, the historic hotel was one
of the most luxurious of its era, welcoming
all kinds of royalty and celebrity guests,
including Agatha Christie, who is rumored to
have written “Murder on the Orient Express”
at the hotel. (Room No. 411 has been
preserved as the “Agatha Christie Room.”)
Stay tuned for details of the hotel’s grand
re-opening, slated for later this year…
Buzzworthy: Visitors can now partake in a
luxury eco-friendly tour of Istanbul for
Christie’s inaugural Green Auction,*
courtesy of the Pera Palace and Urbane
Nomads, a luxury travel company."~
Traveler, Five Star Alliance.
Istanbul,
quite the darling of international media for its
exotic blend of western-style creativity with a
touch of eastern decadence. With the emergence of
the creative set (Turkish design is the latest byword
in the modern furniture industry) comes the
associated appendices- an exciting restaurant scene,
hotels and clubs. Definitely the setting of some of
the higlights of any luxury traveller's itinerary to
Turkey, this former Byzantine capital still embodies
an intoxicating mix of East and West.
Luxury holidays to Turkey, of the luxury
cruise variety, complete with luxury yacht
charters, high-end villas and meetings with
interesting personalities, the most
inventive transfers and private events-
showcasing both the history and new-world
luxury of Turkey, can be arranged for with
our on-the-ground contacts and local
know-how. The luxury holiday and cruise
around Turkey is ideal for those looking to
add a little history and educational element
to their holiday- from ancient Lycian tombs
to the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (the
latter in the modern-day resort town of
Bodrum!). Our itinerary planners will design
a cruise for you tracing the virtually
untouched coastline of ancient Lycia, on the
breathtaking Turkish turquoise coast. Luxury cruises on retrofitted
gullets or events on yachts once gifted to
Ataturk, can be similarly arranged for. Our
arrangement goes beyond a luxury yacht
charter and goes into the details of
planning for the event itself- right down to
the guest invites, entertainments, catering
and photographers.
True to its
character, Istanbul is multi-faceted (and layered).
Drinks with a friend by the Bosphorus in Istanbul
had him musing about the many 'secrets' that
Istanbul keeps- places he's sure he doesn't know
about but is accessible only to the very rich. That
is the luxury of travel in Istanbul- that it reveals
itself differently to different individuals- it is a
city, no doubt, of secrets, a city of mysterious
harems sealed off from the rest of the world,
consequently occupying the imaginations of the
Occidental world. Luxury travel in Istanbul is about
opening these doors, providing for insider access,
knowing the best places (and bases) for which to
explore this fascinating country.
Much of new Turkey (in this case, particularly
represented by) Istanbul is tempered by
the old. In hip Nisantasi, dine in luxury at a restaurant
known for reconstructing Ottoman palace cuisine, watch the
famous whirling dervishes, visit the world-famous
harems and re-live the intrigues that went on behind
its walls.
Urbane Nomads is able
to arrange for weddings in Turkey, in luxurious, converted yalis by the Bosphorus- surely one of the most
romantic settings in the world.
Luxury accommodations
in Turkey run the gamut from the world-famous prison
conversion (The Four Seasons at Sultanahmet), a
palace conversion (The Kempinski Ciragan Palace) to
converted distilleries and cave houses- some of the
most historical iconic vanguards on the luxury hotel
scene possibly anywhere in the world!
Those
looking to end a cultural-oriented trip with
a beach retreat will not be disappointed by
the offerings in Bodrum- from individual
luxury hotels known within the insider
circuit to hip Turkish design hotels. Villa
rentals for those on an extended holiday can
be arranged for, together with your other
travel arrangements.
Urbane Nomads offers bespoke, cultural
itineraries to Turkey- from small group
tours led by famous designers through the
markets and furniture stores of Istanbul to
occasion-led group tours that begin in
Istanbul, Turkey and ends with a private
concert in a privately-owned castle in
Aleppo.
Turkey is one country that easily melds
centuries-old culture with an almost
insouciant contemporary flair.
* Background on
trip: Clients will be accompanied by Gursan
Ergil, a famous eco-friendly furniture
designer in Istanbul who leads visitors into
the historical home of prominent political
figure Fethi Okyar, which was designed in
the modernist style by Sedad Hakki Eldem,
Turkey's Frank Lloyd Wright, and the private
garden of influential Turkish sculptor
Mehmet Aksoy. Pera Palace and Luxury Travel
Company Urbane Nomads will showcase an
eco-friendly luxury tour of Istanbul at
Christie's inaugural Green Auction. The
choice of Istanbul as a destination has been
to demonstrate how any modern metropolis can
be "done" in an eco-friendly manner, as much
as possible.
