WITH MERAKI TRAVEL COLLECTION
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Travel into the life of a place with those who know it from within
With Meraki Travel Collection
Start with the experience
Begin with what you want to enter: a lake under sail, a creative home, an object with a story, or a few slower days in place. Released dates and private arrangements follow from the experience itself.
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Inside a creative life
Creativity, Lived
Clair Concepcion-Barberis opens the Ayala Alabang home where her design life has accumulated. The visit unfolds through the rooms that make that life legible.
From ₱4,550
Photo courtesy of With Meraki Travel Collection
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Out on Taal
Under Sail
On Taal Lake, the shore slips back as soon as the sail fills. Guests learn enough to take part, then spend the day reading the lake from the water.
From ₱6,000
Photo: @moyvortiz / Instagram
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Stay longer in Negros
Come stay awhile
Negros reveals itself slowly. Three days give the island enough time to move from landscape into memory.
Photo: Gary Todd / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
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Begin with an object
The Filipino Cabinet of Curiosities
The cabinet starts with curiosity. Choose the object that holds your eye, and the story begins from there.
From ₱2,000
Souló
Start with what draws you in
Come on your own or bring a friend; Souló opens selected experiences to people who may arrive as strangers, but already share a taste for the same kind of day.
Guest reflections
What remained
The journey ends before the memory does. These are the moments guests carried home with them.
Shared by past guests
“I felt safe, seen, heard, and connected. I really loved learning from both young and old and from people going through different life chapters. Loved learning from others in a meaningful way. This fed my soul for connection, reflective thinking, learning.”
“I was honoured to be in such fab company… Loved and appreciated the warmth, sincerity, humility, journeys, stories, laughter, and love.”
“Highlight was everyone’s individual story that was well moderated. I enjoyed the variety of life experiences, ages and points of view.”
“It’s an intro to sailing experience—a nice trip to breathe fresh air outside of Manila.”
Destinations
The place changes the route
We travel where a strong reason to go meets a relationship close enough to hold it. The map grows only when a place earns its place in the collection.
Destination
Philippines
The collection began in Tagaytay, where rain could alter dinner before the kitchen began. From there, the map moved outward through places already close to us.
Destination
Italy
Italy was part of Barbara Kitane’s story before it became part of the collection. Years in Milan and time lived in Italy shaped an eye for design, craft, food and the particulars that make one region unlike another.
Travel Guides
Travel Guides
A little context can change what the eye notices. Our guides are written for the hours before arrival, when a place is still mostly imagined.
Food
Beyond Sugar
Food, sugar heritage and the island after the headline
Sugar gets the first line in most descriptions of Negros. Stay longer and the island quickly becomes about farms, ancestral towns, biodiversity, ma...
Ria Cortez · The Storyseeking Traveler
Food
Manila, À La Carte
Where to experience Filipino food culture in Manila
Start in Binondo, but resist turning it into a snack checklist. Manila’s food gets better when trade, migration, family and neighborhood enter the ...
Ria Cortez · The Storyseeking Traveler
Creative life
Second Act
What to do in Manila after the usual sights
You have done the usual Manila highlights. Good. The second visit deserves a better question, not a longer checklist.
Ria Cortez · The Storyseeking Traveler
Culture
Read the City
How to experience Manila beyond the landmarks
Manila rewards selective travelers. Give one district, collection or question a few serious hours and the city starts making more sense.
Ria Cortez · The Storyseeking Traveler
The people behind the invitation
Behind the collection
Every route begins in conversation. Barbara develops the product and partnerships, Ria shapes how the journey reaches the guest, and Gabe works with the stories that give it form.
Barbara Kitane
Experience design & partnerships
Barbara develops the collection through product and partnerships, working with local hosts and collaborators to turn a strong reason to visit into an experience that can hold up in practice.
Barbara works through Ampersand Future and holds GSTC professional certification in sustainable tourism. Her experience spans more than 20 years across tourism, hospitality, culture, sustainability and experience design, including time lived in Italy.
Ria Cortez
Growth & operations
Ria leads growth and operations, shaping how guests discover the collection and how each experience moves from interest to arrival.
Ria is also the founder of Kaya Pala Media, where her work centres on media and community-led growth.
Gabe Mercado
Master storyteller
Gabe collaborates as master storyteller, working with hosts to clarify what belongs in the experience and how it should be told.
Gabe founded SPIT Manila and serves as President of Third World Improv. His work in performance and applied improvisation spans more than three decades.
The word behind the name
Meraki · μεράκι
Meraki is a modern Greek word for doing something with care and giving something of yourself to it.
For us, the word is less a promise than a discipline: care taken before the guest arrives, so the day itself can feel light.
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From the road, as it happens
Scenes, places and small moments from the collection as they happen.
From the road
Field Notes
Occasional letters from the road, sent when there is something worth sharing.
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