VALDOR

PRIVATE TRAVEL ATELIER

Travel, as it should be arranged.

A quieter kind of travel

For clients with full lives and little time to spare. Each journey is built around you, with trusted people in place at every stop, so you arrive and the trip unfolds as it should.

HOW A JOURNEY IS ARRANGED

Five stages, around the journey

Every Valdor journey follows the same considered sequence. Five stages that give the work its rhythm. The itinerary changes; the way we work together does not.

i.

The conversation

We meet in person or by video, and mostly we listen. The questions are about how you travel, and what would make a journey worth taking.

ii.

The plan

A clear picture of your trip, on paper, before a single hotel is chosen. You see the journey take shape early, so nothing about it surprises you later.

iii.

The itinerary

A single document, day by day. Hotels, transport, experiences, and the people waiting at each stop, gathered in one place.

iv.

The trip

Drivers waiting, hosts expecting you, plans already in motion. One number to call if anything shifts. Otherwise, the freedom to forget about logistics entirely.

v.

The return

A short conversation when you are home. What worked, what surprised, what to keep for next time. Your next journey begins where this one left off.

The journey, in detail →

The craft, in three parts

We have no destination niche. The craft travels with you to any place in the world.

i.

Designed only for you

Your trip, built from a blank page. No templates and no packages; every day shaped around how you travel.

ii.

The rooms, and the way in

The best hotels and the right rooms within them, with transport that runs quietly in the background. Private villas, yachts, and aviation where they add something real, and access to places most travellers never see.

iii.

Done before you land

Reservations confirmed, introductions made, timings checked twice. So much is settled in advance that arrival asks nothing of you.

A private practice, built for travel

Maarten De Laet, Founder of Valdor
Maarten De Laet
FOUNDER

Valdor was founded to bring the standards of a Swiss private office to the way clients travel. The practice is small by design. A handful of international clients across Europe, the Americas, and the Gulf, each one given the time and attention the work asks for.

Behind Valdor is Maarten De Laet, originally from the Netherlands and based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Hospitality taught him that service lives in small things; organising events on the scale of the Olympic Games taught him how much depends on the parts a guest never sees. The same discipline now serves Valdor. He speaks six languages.

The name means golden valley, a nod to Swiss heritage. The work follows from it, plainly and without fuss.

“My work is to clear away everything that gets in the way,
so all that remains is the wonder of the place.”

A reputation earned quietly

A small practice is judged one journey at a time. A few words from clients, on journeys arranged across the world.

5.00 from 11 verified reviews on Fora
“Planned our Japan trip across Tokyo and Osaka and made the whole thing effortless. The hotels were perfectly chosen, the pacing between the two cities was spot on, and the local recommendations were far better than anything we would have found on our own.”
A family travelling to Japan
“Proactive in making the most of every booking, from a canal-facing room upgrade to early check-in and late check-out. The perfect balance of attentive and unobtrusive, easy at every step.”
A couple travelling to the Netherlands
“On top of every detail. I will never go anywhere else.”
A family travelling to Switzerland
BEGIN A CONVERSATION

An introduction is the first step

Valdor takes on a small number of new clients each season. The first conversation is short, by phone or video, and without obligation.

Email maarten@valdor.travel

Conversations and correspondence are held in confidence.