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WITH MERAKI TRAVEL COLLECTION
Leave seeing more
Small-group experiences and longer journeys, planned with people who know the place from the inside.
Start here
Reasons to clear the day
Pick the one that makes you rearrange the rest of your plans.
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METRO MANILA & ENVIRONS · CREATIVE JOURNEY
Step inside a creative life
Creativity, Lived
A private creative home, a working practice and the objects that explain more than a bio ever could.
From ₱4,550
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METRO MANILA & ENVIRONS · CULTURE JOURNEY
Good art. Better conversation.
The Art of Gathering
Good work on the walls. Something good on the table. The conversation can take it from there.
From ₱4,550
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CALABARZON · ADVENTURE JOURNEY
Take the line
Under Sail
Take a line, learn enough to be useful and let Taal look different from the water.
From ₱6,000
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CENTRAL VISAYAS & NEGROS · GASTRONOMY JOURNEY
Stay long enough to look beyond the obvious
Come stay awhile
Three days to eat well, meet the people behind the place and stop treating the landscape like background.
Guest reflections
What they still talk about
The details guests kept.
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.”
Destinations
Pick a place
Open the map, then go straight to what people eat, make, protect and argue about.
Destination
Philippines
One island is never a preview of the next. Follow a table, a coastline or a neighbourhood until the differences start to show.
Destination
Italy
Cross a regional line and the menu changes before the scenery does. That is where the fun starts.
Choose by time
How much of your day can we steal?
A few hours works. A week changes the conversation.
Souló · a few hours to a day
A few hours, well spent
Small-group experiences with unusual access, kept to a few well-spent hours or a day.
With Meraki Travel Collection · multi-day journeys
Stay long enough to notice more
Longer journeys built as one coherent route, rather than a stack of reservations.
Travel Guides
Read this before you book anything
Useful context, strong opinions and the details that save you from wasting a day.
Food
Sugar, Then Some
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
Field Notes
Worth opening
New dates, sharp recommendations and the occasional useful detour.
Field Notes
Keep the interesting bits coming
New drops, Field Notes and the occasional reason to rearrange a weekend. Only when there is something worth opening.
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