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Hotel Cataleya · Family Travel Membership

Unplugged family vacations that become core memories.

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The Hotel Cataleya Experience

Where luxury is abundant,
but status is irrelevant.

Hotel Cataleya is a family travel membership for parents who see travel as one of the greatest mediums for expanding themselves and their children and ingraining in them the core values of self-worth, empathy, presence, and cultural understanding.

We plan bespoke, unplugged family vacations rooted in the neuroscience of connection — designed to restore your nervous system, deepen your family bonds, and support the communities you visit.

Founding Member Window November 15 – December 15, 2026 35 founding families across three tiers. Legacy pricing locked. Every application personally reviewed by one of our core travel designers.
The Membership

How Hotel Cataleya works

i.

Personalized

We get to know your family, your destination preferences, and your travel style through your application and a personal discovery call.

ii.

Trips & Retreats

We design immersive, bespoke experiences that make it easy for the whole family to unplug and connect — intimate family trips, group retreats, and multigenerational adventures.

iii.

Connect

We match your family for vacations with other vetted Hotel Cataleya families who share your core values — open-hearted people excited to connect through shared adventure.

iv.

Experiences

Multigenerational moments, wellness through community, locally immersive experiences, milestone trips, digital detox, and dopamine reset — every trip is transformative by design.

Choose Your Founding Membership

Three tiers.
One community.

Founding member pricing is a substantial discount from regular pricing that launches in 2028. When the founding window closes on December 15, these rates disappear. Legacy pricing is locked forever for founding members.

The Culturist
Community + Access
$2,500 / year
Founding rate · Regular: $4,000/year in 2028
Founding cohort: 20 families

For families who want access to the Hotel Cataleya ecosystem but plan and execute their own trips with our guidance.

  • Full community access + monthly group calls with our core travel designers
  • Access to the Hidden Gem Stays library — boutique properties & culturally significant lodgings
  • Access to Hotel Cataleya Trusted Guides directory — vetted travel companions for your children
  • Access to the Independent Travel Designer directory
  • Trip design consultations with a core travel designer up to 3× per year
  • Off-market experiences catalog (bookable at member pricing)
  • First access to group retreats at member pricing
  • 10% off upgrades to full trip design or family matching
  • Founding member pricing locked for life
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The Voyager
Full Concierge
$6,500 / year
Founding rate · Regular: $10,000/year in 2028
Founding cohort: 10 families

For families who want white-glove trip design and full concierge support.

  • Everything in The Culturist
  • Up to 3 full trip designs per year — our travel designers handle logistics, bookings & coordination
  • Priority family matching — paired with 1-2 vetted families per year
  • Off-market experiences designed into each trip
  • Quarterly private planning sessions with your dedicated travel designer
  • Priority access to the Trusted Guides network (launching soon)
  • Concierge support during travel — real-time issue resolution
  • Founding member pricing locked for life
Apply for Voyager
The World Citizen
Founding Cohort · Legacy
$12,000 / year
Founding rate · Regular: $20,000/year in 2028
Founding cohort: Only 5 families

For families who want maximum access, direct partnership, and to be woven into the DNA of Hotel Cataleya.

  • Everything in The Voyager
  • Unlimited trip design throughout the year
  • VIP family matching — every match personally curated by a core travel designer
  • Guaranteed spots at all group retreats
  • Direct-line access to a VIP Travel Designer (Voxer/text)
  • First access to new experiences & destinations before they're offered to other tiers
  • Founding World Citizen recognition on site (opt-in)
  • Legacy pricing locked forever
  • Voice at the table — your feedback becomes strategy
  • Grandfathered access to any new benefits Hotel Cataleya adds forever
Apply for World Citizen

A $97 application fee is required to apply. It's fully credited toward your first membership payment if accepted. This covers your discovery call and personalized matching assessment, personally reviewed by one of our core travel designers.

Founding Member Perks

What only Hotel Cataleya gives you.

These four benefits are the reason Hotel Cataleya exists. You can't book them anywhere else — because they're built from relationships, curation, and years of work most families don't have time to do themselves.

Family Vacation Matching

Travel alongside families who share your values

The differentiator no other travel service offers.

We pair your family with other vetted Hotel Cataleya families for shared trips and retreats. Kids build lasting friendships across cultures. Parents find real community. Multi-family adventures with aligned families become the heartbeat of your travel life.

Hotel Cataleya Trusted Guides

Vetted travel companions for your children

More than childcare — they curate and execute your kids' adventures.

Our network of trusted travel companions who help watch, engage, and educate your children. They help design your kids' adventures, guide their activities, and hold space for their exploration — so your kids get their own age-appropriate experiences while you get yours.

Off-Market Experiences

Access you can't book yourself

Bespoke moments through personal relationships.

Private dinners with local chefs, artisan workshops with master craftspeople, access to little-known cultural sites, tailored adventures with trusted partners, and many other immersive moments only available through our on-the-ground relationships. This is what elevates travel from vacation to transformation.

Hidden Gem Stays

Boutique properties beyond public booking

Curated database of stays only available through relationships.

Private villas, family-owned boutique hotels, culturally significant lodgings, and off-grid retreats that aren't easily found on Booking.com, Airbnb, or public travel sites. Each vetted personally for safety, character, and alignment with Hotel Cataleya values.

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Rammed earth interior with desert view
The Foundation

The philosophy that shapes
every experience.

The Ethos

Where luxury is abundant, but status is irrelevant

High-touch experiences without the performance. We design for the soul, not the social feed — for families who want depth more than they want recognition.

The Energy

Engineered for presence

Every experience is designed for minimal screens, dopamine reset, deep connection, local immersion, and cultural exposure that benefits the communities we visit.

The Effect

Travel that restores rather than depletes

Every Hotel Cataleya experience is rooted in the neuroscience of human bonding, dopamine regulation, and family attachment — not a travel brochure template. The result is travel that actually restores your nervous system instead of depleting it.

The Impact

Travel as investment, not extraction

We partner with guides, families, and small businesses on the ground. Your trip is an investment in their world, not an extraction from it.

Mother and children watching desert sunset
The Truth About Time

You have 18 summers with your kids. Maybe fewer.

If your child is 5, you have 13 summers left before they're packing for college. If they're 10, you have 8. Every year you spend "too busy to travel meaningfully" is one of those summers gone.

The families who get this right don't wait for the perfect time. They build their travel life around the realization that presence with your kids is the only currency that actually compounds.

The Travel Membership for Families Who Prioritize Presence, Experience & Connection

"It was through travel that I began to realize that I fit in everywhere better than I fit in anywhere."

— Sarah Isely, Founder
Mother and child practicing yoga together
The Cost of the Default

Most family vacations leave everyone more depleted than before.

You book the resort. You pack the snacks. You survive the flight with a toddler. You arrive, and within hours the kids are on iPads by the pool while you scroll your phone and call it "relaxing." You come home more tired than when you left.

Meanwhile, the years keep moving. Your 4-year-old is suddenly 7. Your 7-year-old is suddenly 12. And somewhere between the overstimulating theme parks and the exhausting "family vacations," the thing you actually wanted — real presence, real connection, real adventure together — slipped through the cracks.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Mother and daughter floating in natural pool
Kids at pool edge
Safety First

Your family's safety is non-negotiable

We know how travel changes once you have a family to protect. Safety is always a first priority when choosing our destinations, hosts, and experiences.

Intimate & Connective

When you stay small, you unlock the true magic

Our experiences are hosted in boutique properties with limited capacity because we believe bonds form and unity is strong when people actually see each other. Connection happens in intimate spaces.

Truly Inclusive

Enriching our stories by experiencing alongside others

Hotel Cataleya is built on the premise that when children discover themselves alongside those from backgrounds and cultures different than their own, their view of the world becomes limitless.

Capri beach cove
Sarah holding Cataleya in Italy
A Note From The Founders

To the present.

Too often we live our lives with only a vision of the future in mind, and little attention to living in the present moment.

Our kids get older and we miss moments with them as we work hard to provide for their future. We forget that the whole reason for seeking financial freedom is so that we can spend more quality time with the ones we love.

We are here to remind you that you only really have 18 summers to make those memories with your kids while they're young and eager for more of your time.

We are also here to make that easier for you to do, time and time again. We have done the groundwork to figure out what factors take the stress out of your experience — so all you and your family have to do is show up, enjoy, and experience more with the "reasons" you started doing it all in the first place.

Don't wait until your kids are older to live your bucket list life. Take them with you.

To the present,
Sarah, Jacob & Cataleya

Our Belief

"Legacy isn't just something you leave to your kids. It should be experienced with them."