Anonymous
Post 12/31/2021 21:38     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

Anonymous wrote:The super rich people also go to the family camp in Maine which has been in their family for 5 generations. It may or may not have electricity. No pool, everyone swims in the pond. That's where they have memories of the past and build ones of the future.


Or Northeast Harbor; Seal Harbor or the likes
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 18:03     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

I am an elite Washingtonian. We go to Cedar Point in Ohio.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 18:02     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

I have to say I have found this thread to be super interesting. thanks to the PPs who have shared experiences of their super rich friends. Fascinating!!!
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 11:08     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

Yes, let us know their locations for when the revolution starts.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 11:05     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

^ They don’t do hotels. Not even five star.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 11:05     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

Ditto others. A good friend of mine comes from serious family money. Her family vacation pre covid was a fully staffed villa in Tuscany with a butler who arranged private excursions for all guests depending on their interests, whether water sports or sightseeing.

Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 10:14     Subject: Re:Where do “the elite” vacation?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We are not elite but we do have a seven figure income and spend $100k+ on travel per year. We do not come from family money and don’t pretend to be rich. We just like to travel and have 3 kids.

We stay at luxury resorts like four seasons, Ritz, mandarin oriental, rosewood, etc. We stay in a 2 bedroom suite.

We like to travel all four seasons. In the winter, we do a mix of ski and sun. We don’t do skip trips to Europe but will do park city and some drivable weekend ski trips. Yes, it is icy and not great conditions but my kids love to ski. I personally love going to Mexico or Caribbean and stay at a nice resort with spa. We do kid oriented trips since we have 3 kids and don’t care if some snobby people think it is low brow. My kids enjoyed Legoland, Dutch wonderland, Disney, universal, etc. we will go to friends’ beach houses.

We have enough money that if I see a place that looks fun, we can plan to go. During covid, we rented homes. It does cost more and it is comfortable. I missed room service and amenities though.

We know people who rent fully staffed homes. We have yet to do this.


This isn't what we are talking about on this thread. We are talking about people much richer than you.


We have some friends - the husband is a CEO - working rich - who is probably well on their way to elite now. We were invited to one vacation they took at a staffed villa in Europe. It was insane. Everyone dressed for dinner (beautiful dresses etc) even though "at home" - Michelin quality chefs/food/wine. Dinner/lunch was served in a different location each day depending on the days plans. The host (wife) would work with the female majordomo each morning on the day's plans. The boat would pick us up some days from the private launch pickup to take us to lunches. Back at villa for afternoon hangout/tennis and then cocktails at 7 promptly.

I felt like I had entered another world. It was amazing.

The hosts clearly have a lot of excess wealth to travel like this. It appeared (before we got there) that the husband had some business dinners their for his company (so maybe they expensed the whole thing). Anyway, it was mindblowing.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 09:50     Subject: Re:Where do “the elite” vacation?

Anonymous wrote:We are not elite but we do have a seven figure income and spend $100k+ on travel per year. We do not come from family money and don’t pretend to be rich. We just like to travel and have 3 kids.

We stay at luxury resorts like four seasons, Ritz, mandarin oriental, rosewood, etc. We stay in a 2 bedroom suite.

We like to travel all four seasons. In the winter, we do a mix of ski and sun. We don’t do skip trips to Europe but will do park city and some drivable weekend ski trips. Yes, it is icy and not great conditions but my kids love to ski. I personally love going to Mexico or Caribbean and stay at a nice resort with spa. We do kid oriented trips since we have 3 kids and don’t care if some snobby people think it is low brow. My kids enjoyed Legoland, Dutch wonderland, Disney, universal, etc. we will go to friends’ beach houses.

We have enough money that if I see a place that looks fun, we can plan to go. During covid, we rented homes. It does cost more and it is comfortable. I missed room service and amenities though.

We know people who rent fully staffed homes. We have yet to do this.


This isn't what we are talking about on this thread. We are talking about people much richer than you.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 09:21     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

Anonymous wrote:LOL if you have to ask you don’t need to know.


What an ahole comment.
Anonymous
Post 12/17/2021 09:14     Subject: Re:Where do “the elite” vacation?

We are not elite but we do have a seven figure income and spend $100k+ on travel per year. We do not come from family money and don’t pretend to be rich. We just like to travel and have 3 kids.

We stay at luxury resorts like four seasons, Ritz, mandarin oriental, rosewood, etc. We stay in a 2 bedroom suite.

We like to travel all four seasons. In the winter, we do a mix of ski and sun. We don’t do skip trips to Europe but will do park city and some drivable weekend ski trips. Yes, it is icy and not great conditions but my kids love to ski. I personally love going to Mexico or Caribbean and stay at a nice resort with spa. We do kid oriented trips since we have 3 kids and don’t care if some snobby people think it is low brow. My kids enjoyed Legoland, Dutch wonderland, Disney, universal, etc. we will go to friends’ beach houses.

We have enough money that if I see a place that looks fun, we can plan to go. During covid, we rented homes. It does cost more and it is comfortable. I missed room service and amenities though.

We know people who rent fully staffed homes. We have yet to do this.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2021 21:43     Subject: Re:Where do “the elite” vacation?

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I certainly don't hang out in this milieu but I did rub shoulders ever so slightly with a very wealthy clique in college. One thing you do learn is that the very rich quickly know all the other very rich kids, whether from California or Park Avenue or Texas oil money, they flock to each other.

As you can infer, many of their vacations are little more than partying with each other. Spring break trip to Colorado and they take over someone's family's ski chalet and party. Same for trips to the Caribbean. Flights to London or Paris for a birthday party was normal. Big blowout birthday bashes in exotic locations was very normal. They're called jet setters for a reason. And the pattern continues as they age. They still party as affluent middle aged people, just in different ways (less drugs!).

While there are certainly favored destinations like St. Barts, it's not just the locale, but what you do at the said locale, and that involves being with other rich people in their houses or boats or exclusive islands or estates or possibly taking over a small boutique hotel that only those in the know know. They'll even go to locations some of you would never think about, like someone's enormous (huge!) ranch in the middle of Texas for a wild weekend. The ranch may be surrounded by dull tiny towns of rednecks, but the ranch house and cabins itself will be as finely kitted out as the nicest boutique hotels and personal chefs serving food comparable to Thomas Keller. The same is true for going to your Argentinian college friend's family's ranch in Patagonia, or someone's preserve in Kenya. It's a very, incredibly, groomed lifestyle.


I'm the PP who posted about her sister's FIL, and this much better captures what I was trying to convey. Talking about "where" simply doesn't begin to capture how the uber-wealthy vacation...


Super accurate for inherited wealth. Everyone knows everyone else and they know how to spot each other....
they also aren't into sightseeing anywhere - they would never go to 3 cities in Italy in 10 days - unless they had parties or events to go to in each city. that's not the way they travel.
Agree on taking over other families' homes - none of these homes are EVER rented out...they just sit empty fully staffed until someone stops by.
Summer is Mediterranean homes/on the water.
Winter is ski (Europe or out west)
Bday parties in amazing locales (Punta Mita private villa; Mustique, Antigua (near Tory Burch home), Panama (near Aerin Lauder's home), Cartagena (Lauren Santo Domingo) etc...
Move btw home in NYC, Hamptons, Palm Beach, Nantucket, Aspen and Mexico/Caribbean/So America



Agree with all of the above.

I recently had the pleasure of traveling with some people from this set. The private ranch that this friend group was usually invited to was full (bigger than usual group), and a B list of people were forced to stay in hotels. Oh my God, the complaining. They were so so so mortally offended to be roughing it in a four star hotel. I was really astonished by the whole experience, having naively thought up until this trip that rich people stay in high end hotels. Wrong, wrong, wrong.


absolutely agree...no hotels...
private staffed villas. chefs. service. ironed sheets required. but no hotels which are considered pedestrian.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2021 21:39     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

Anonymous wrote:Can someone define "elite" for me? Is this $100m+ NW? I mean, I know plenty of folks in our circle with about $10m NW and they go on ski trips, beach trips, Europe. We're going heliskiing this winter for the first time. I've only flown private when it lined up with one of our much, much wealthier friend's travel schedule.


Yes, def more than $10M.
The real elite is 9 digits wealth....that's what you hear in some circles.

Anonymous
Post 12/16/2021 19:42     Subject: Re:Where do “the elite” vacation?

I am an elite and a famous Washingtonian. We go places others don't tend to vacation - not exactly the most luxurious hotel in a country because then we'd have to be in the city where it's crowded. For example, we most always go out of the country and if we go to Italy, we don't tend to go to Rome, we will go to the wine regions.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2021 16:22     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

Can someone define "elite" for me? Is this $100m+ NW? I mean, I know plenty of folks in our circle with about $10m NW and they go on ski trips, beach trips, Europe. We're going heliskiing this winter for the first time. I've only flown private when it lined up with one of our much, much wealthier friend's travel schedule.
Anonymous
Post 12/16/2021 16:11     Subject: Where do “the elite” vacation?

We try to keep it secret. If you knew, you'd show up. Then it wouldn't be a place for the elite.