International Travel for UHNW & VIPs
When the principal travels, the desk travels with them.
End-to-end coordination for UHNW principals, family offices and visiting VIPs travelling abroad — private aviation, villas, yachts, advance security, ground teams and medical concierge in every destination.
International travel for an UHNW principal is rarely about a single flight and a single hotel. It is the family on one jet, the staff and luggage on another, an advance team on the ground three days early, two armoured cars meeting wheels-down, the villa stocked to a written brief, the chef interviewed and contracted, the local doctor on standby, and the embassy quietly notified that the principal is in country. K2's international desk runs that full programme.
We work with a long-standing network of trusted partners across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Caribbean — operators, fixers, security firms, doctors and concierges we have used for years and would put our own family in the hands of. Every itinerary is built from scratch for the principal: villas vetted in person where possible, drivers and protection officers screened against the brief, routes recce'd, and a single K2 trip director on the ground or on call 24/7 for the duration of the trip.
The desk also handles the unglamorous detail that ruins most trips when it is forgotten — visa and ESTA timing, passport renewals, carnet for jewellery and watches, pet travel paperwork, currency and ATM logistics, SIM cards and secure comms, school-leave letters, and discreet liaison with the in-house PA, family office and existing security team so that nothing is duplicated and nothing is dropped.
Four-phase international move, run from one desk.
A composite of a recent four-leg programme — names and dates redacted. Four phases, one trip director, one invoice.
Two K2 staff and a vetted CPO arrive in country three days early. Villa walk-through against the written brief, route recce of every daily journey, hospital and clinic pre-clearance, embassy notification, armoured ground confirmed, local doctor briefed.
Principal on family jet, staff and luggage on second aircraft. Wheels-down met by two armoured S-Class plus a V-Class for staff and a Sprinter for luggage. Tarmac transfer, no terminal, direct to villa. CPOs hand over to in-country team.
Same driver every day for the principal. Restaurant tables, gallery openings, tender-to-yacht logistics and children's programmes booked end-to-end. Concierge GP on standby. Daily 18:00 brief between K2 trip director, household PA and security lead.
Aircraft repositioned, luggage forwarded ahead, secure comms wiped, hospital and embassy stood down. Advance team flies to the next destination 48 hours before the family — and the same four-phase pattern begins again.
Bespoke itineraries built around the principal's calendar, the family's preferences and the security threat profile. Villas, hotels, restaurants, private galleries and experiences pre-booked end-to-end, with a single K2 trip director on call.
Private jet, helicopter and yacht charter with operators vetted to K2 standards. Vetted chauffeurs, armoured vehicles and motorcades in every destination — Monaco, Saint-Tropez, Mykonos, Dubai, Riyadh, Marbella, Aspen, the Hamptons, St Barths, Tokyo.
Advance security recce, residential and event protection, female CPOs, secure routing and embassy liaison. Concierge doctor on standby, private hospital pre-clearance, air ambulance cover and global medical evacuation arranged on request.
Visa, ESTA and ETA applications, carnet for high-value watches and jewellery, pet travel, school-leave letters, multi-currency cash, encrypted phones and SIMs, secure luggage handling and porter service throughout.
Quiet, single-channel coordination with the principal's PA, family office, in-house security, wealth manager and existing concierge — so the desk slots in alongside, never duplicates, and never appears in places it should not.
Restaurant reservations, club access, personal shopping, private gallery and museum openings, yacht provisioning, chef-at-the-villa, private fitness and wellness — booked and managed locally so the principal lands to a ready day.
Nine ways the international desk earns its keep.
From a single weekend in Monaco to a six-week multi-jurisdiction family programme — co-ordinated end to end with one named trip director.
Villa selection across Cap-Ferrat, Saint-Jean and the Saint-Tropez hinterland, with vetted ground, tender-to-yacht logistics, restaurant tables at Le Louis XV, La Vague d'Or and the beach clubs.
Villas across Mykonos, Paros, Antiparos and the Peloponnese, paired with crewed yacht charter, helicopter transfers from Athens and on-island security where needed.
Royal suites and private residences across the Burj Al Arab, Bulgari, Atlantis the Royal and the Ritz-Carlton, with armoured ground, female chaperones for family and full embassy liaison.
Ski-in chalets in Aspen and the Yellowstone Club, full-summer Hamptons rentals, and villa programmes across St Barths and Anguilla — paired with US-side ground and security.
Aman Tokyo, Hoshinoya Kyoto and Rosewood Hong Kong with private guides, ryokan stays in Hakone, sushi-counter bookings at Saito and Sukiyabashi Jiro, and bilingual ground throughout.
Private-camp safari programmes in the Mara, Serengeti and Okavango with vetted operators, paired with Cape Town residences, wine-country tours and helicopter sightseeing.
Whole-island bookings in the Maldives, French Polynesia and the Bahamas, plus full house-party take-overs at Necker, Velaa, Soneva Jani and Laucala for milestone celebrations.
Crewed superyacht charter co-ordinated to the on-shore programme — Med summer routes, Caribbean winter routes, plus the Croatian and Adriatic coast — with chefs, tenders and toys briefed in advance.
Concierge GP on standby in every destination, pre-clearance with private hospitals, air-ambulance cover and a single 24/7 medical case-manager attached to every international itinerary.