Honeymoon
Kerala Honeymoons
Slow mornings on still water, dinners lit by oil lamps, and days shaped entirely around the two of you.
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Curators of journeys, not package sellers.
Lumiere Holidays began with a quiet discomfort: somewhere along the way, travel became a product. A grid of prices, a bus with a flag, a checklist of sights seen through glass. We wanted to make the opposite — journeys composed the way a good letter is written: personally, unhurriedly, with someone particular in mind.
From our studio in Kochi we design travel through Kerala and a shortlist of places abroad that we know first-hand. We plan slowly, book carefully, and stay reachable for every day you are away. The result is not a package. It is your journey, and it could not belong to anyone else.
Why Lumiere
Five quiet promises
Personalised journeys
Every itinerary starts from a blank page and a conversation, never from a template.
Local expertise
We live where you are traveling. Our recommendations come from lived Sundays, not search results.
Thoughtful curation
Fewer places, better chosen. We would rather you remember three things deeply than photograph thirty.
Seamless coordination
Drivers, hosts, tables, tickets — confirmed twice and mentioned once, so the journey feels effortless.
Support before, during & after
One number that answers: before you fly, while you travel, and after you are home.
Signature journeys
Seven ways a journey can begin
Culture
Cultural Kerala
Temple drums at dusk, spice markets at dawn, and living traditions met on their own terms.
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Luxury
Luxury Kerala
The finest addresses in the south, threaded together with quiet, invisible coordination.
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Wellness
Wellness & Ayurveda
Genuine Ayurveda, honest rest, and time measured in treatments and tides rather than sights.
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Adventure
Festival Trails
Elephant processions, drum orchestras and hundred-oared boat races — Kerala at full volume, planned to the hour.
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Family
Family Escapes
Journeys where the eight-year-old and the grandmother are planned for with equal care.
Read the journeyThe studio
Planned by people, answered by people
Arjun Menon
Founder & Chief Curator
Meera Pillai
Journey Designer
Anna Thomas
Guest Relations
Guest stories
In their own words
“For ten days we did not open a single booking app. Someone had already thought of everything — the houseboat dinner we never asked for, the room that faced the sunrise. It felt less like a package and more like a gift from someone who knew us.”
“Traveling with my parents and two children usually means I come home more tired than I left. This time the drives were short, the hotels were ready for us, and when our train ran late one WhatsApp message fixed the whole evening. My father still talks about the boat race.”
“We asked for the Kerala that people actually live in, and that is exactly what we were given — a morning with a mural painter, dinner in a family kitchen in Thrissur, a guide who felt like an old friend by day three. Extraordinary, and quietly done.”
The journal
Notes from the studio
How We Design a Journey Around a Person, Not a Place
The questions we ask before we suggest a single hotel — and why the best itineraries begin nowhere near a map.
The Slow Hours: Notes from a Backwater Morning
What actually happens on a houseboat before breakfast — and why we build whole journeys around these two unhurried hours.