Emerson & Louise
What's Included in our Full-Service Family Travel Package
Before you leave home, a box arrives at your door.
Inside you’ll find a printed itinerary with your family’s name on it — the full trip, laid out beautifully, ready to hold in your hands.
A branded Emerson & Louise sweatshirt and blanket packed for the journey. A custom luggage tag. A kit made just for your trip. And a prompted family journal to start filling in before you ever board the plane.
While you’re traveling, we’ve already handled everything waiting for you at the destination — the restaurant that books out weeks in advance, the experience most families never find, the car that meets you at baggage claim.
When you get home, send us your photos. We build your keepsake book from the moments you captured — designed, printed, and mailed to your door.
This is what the Heirloom experience looks like. Not just a trip that’s planned. A trip that’s preserved.
What's Inside the Heirloom Experience
Planning & Preparation
Bespoke destination and lodging research
A fully customized, printed heirloom itinerary
Seamless booking coordination
Hand-selected dining experiences reserved in advance
We think through how your family arrives and how the days flow
A tailored packing list designed around your destination and the season
Custom Travel Keepsakes & Family Memory Books
A kit we put together for your trip
Custom branded luggage tag
Signature Emerson & Louise sweatshirt & blanket designed for comfort and memory
Printed heirloom itinerary delivered before departure
A keepsake book crafted from your submitted photographs after the trip
A family prompted heirloom journal to be filled out before, during and after the trip to keep memories
This package is built around keeping the memories, not just making them — and this plays a meaningful role in supporting the Emerson & Louise Foundation.
See our essentials page for imaging of our signature sweatshirts
Is This the Right Luxury Travel Family Package for You?
This is designed for travelers who:
Are celebrating a meaningful milestone or once-in-a-lifetime journey
Want their travels preserved through thoughtful keepsakes and lasting memories
Appreciate meaningful details that make a trip truly personal
Prefer seamless travel with every element carefully handled
Wyoming Ranch - Wagonhound
A Glimpse Into a Luxury 4-Day Family Vacation Itinerary
Day 1 — Arrive. Exhale. Begin.
Your luxury car service meets you at the airport by name. You arrive at your property — lakeside cottage, mountain lodge, or inn on the village green — with early check-in already arranged. The afternoon is yours. Tonight, dinner at a restaurant we reserved weeks before you landed. Your table is waiting.
Day 2 — The Morning That Sets the Tone
Your family photography session begins at 7:15 AM — golden hour light, kids at their freshest, a setting we chose specifically for your destination. By 10 AM you have images that will define how your family remembers this trip. The afternoon is built around the destination’s signature experience — a private pontoon charter on a lake most travelers never find, a fly fishing guide on a stretch of river with private access, a horseback ride through alpine meadows arranged through outfitters we know by name. You show up. Everything else is already handled.
Day 3 — Into the Landscape
The big day. Grandfather Mountain, Quechee Gorge, the Beartooth Highway, Billings Farm — whatever this destination offers that will make your child’s sense of scale shift permanently. We build the day around their age, their pace, and the one experience that makes this place unlike anywhere else. A picnic we told you exactly how to build. A dinner reservation we hold at the restaurant that books out weeks in advance.
Day 4 — The Closing Ritual
Every Emerson & Louise trip ends the same way. An alarm set for early. A walk to the water, the green, or the ridge before the world is awake. A moment where someone says the one thing they want to remember. You write it down. This is the moment that travels home with you — the one your kids will describe to their own children someday.
Your actual itinerary will be fully personalized — your destination, your family’s pace, your meaningful moments. This is what intentional travel looks like when every detail has been handled before you arrive.
Thoughtful Additions to Personalize Your Family Travel Package
Available to further personalize your Heirloom experience
Matching Children's Travel Sweatshirt
A coordinating piece for comfort and continuity
$90 per child
Matching Adult Travel Sweatshirt
A matching layer for shared journeys and perfect for travel days
$135
Additional Custom Luggage Tags
Extra branded luggage tags for additional bags or family members
$25 each
Additional Keepsake Book Pages
Extra space to document your journey with photos, notes and memories
$55 per 4-page spread
Holiday Card
Send us photos from your travels, and we will curate your family's Christmas card — designed with intention, printed beautifully and mailed to your door.
Starting at $150
Family Photography Session
A coordinated photography session during one meaningful moment of your trip. Curated and scheduled by Emerson and Louise
Price varies on location
* see our essentials page for actual imaging of the sweatshirts and add ons
Yellowstone - Sage Lodge
Rooted In Meaning — The Emerson & Louise Foundation
Emerson & Louise experiences are rooted in preserving what matters most — the moments, the connection, and the memories you carry with you long after the trip ends.
Through the Emerson & Louise Foundation, each trip booked also helps support a family in creating meaningful travel moments of their own.
Because some memories mean everything.
Read more on our foundation and how your trip will help another family experience a trip designed to be remembered.
Luxury Family Travel Package Cost & How to Book
A luxury family mountain or lake vacation is one of the most meaningful investments a family makes.
The Heirloom experience at $1,400 ensures that every detail is handled, every moment is intentional, and every memory has somewhere to live — so this trip becomes something your family carries forward for the rest of your lives.
We only take a limited number of families each month.