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New Year's Eve. The age-old question. Do you work it? Do you cave and do the family thing? Do you spend three weeks convincing a friend to host a house party and then watch it fall apart on December 28th? Let's be honest. You were never going to the rooftop bar. John Summit headlining NYE. Black Eyed Peas. Skepta. Ocean Alley. The Veronicas. Four days at Barunah Plains, 90 minutes from Melbourne, with a festival lineup that’ll trump all your other new years plans. And ARRIVAL is taking you there. An overnight stay at Drifter Melbourne. An exclusive pre-party at Alfies with an actual BTV artist playing the night before the festival begins. Then the coach heads south. DeLux glamping. Valley Club access. The ARRIVAL crew around you the whole time. No transport group chat. No accommodation panic. All sorted before you even pack a bag. I gotta feeling… BTV is gonna be a good night. IYKYK.

This year, we’ve turned our Snow Machine trip up a notch. The warm-up begins in Tokyo, followed by the main event: Snow Machine in Hakuba, with the luxury of our very own ski-in, ski-out hotel, the whole ARRIVAL crew under one roof and daily shuttles to the festival after each day on the slopes. The trip starts with two nights at Hotel Gracery Shinjuku, the one with a life-sized Godzilla head looming over Kabukicho (because apparently a normal hotel sign wasn't enough). We kick it off with an ARRIVAL welcome dinner: all you can eat, all you can drink. Then Tokyo is yours. Rampage through Shibuya konbini for egg sandwiches, famichiki and onigiri, hunt down the tiny ramen counters and record stores, or go to karaoke, which will humble everyone very early. Then the Japanese Alps take over for the main event of the trip: Snow Machine! A festival spread across the mountains: with 30-plus artists, and DJs playing at multiple stages across the mountains from Wednesday to Saturday, as well as the main arena near Happo from Thursday to Saturday night. For five nights, the entire crew stays at The Alps Hotel Hakuba: a 55-year-old mountain hotel completely rebuilt for winter 2027, sitting directly on the slopes of Hakuba Norikura. Skis on right outside the door. Cortina linked next door. Ten Hakuba Valley resorts within reach on your pass. And when the ski boots come off: a natural onsen back at the hotel, a sauna, a heated outdoor pool, a restaurant and a bar, all downstairs. The 2027 line-up for Snow Machine includes KETTAMA, Patrick Topping, Wilkinson, Luude, TOKiMONSTA, Elderbrook DJ Set, Sneaky Sound System, Kanine, STÜM and Sam Alfred, with more still to come. Daily shuttles run between the hotel and the festival (Tsugaike -10min shuttle, Happo - 30min shuttle, Goryu - 40min shuttle, Main arena - 20 mins shuttle) , and when the last bus drops you home, we're kicking on back at the hotel bar. Rally the group chat. This isn't the year to miss.

Earlier this year, Kind of a Big Deal went to China to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out, quite a lot. They travelled through Chongqing and Zhangjiajie, worked out what they rated, what they’d happily skip, and came home with a pretty clear opinion: China is Kind of a Big Deal. So together, we built a trip around the good stuff. For seven nights, you’re doing their version of it. Start in Chongqing with hotpot, neon, stacked highways, Baguo Hall, ancient Ciqikou, a river cruise and, weather permitting, one seriously ridiculous drone show. There’s also a free day to get properly lost in a city that makes very little architectural sense. Then it’s a high-speed train to Zhangjiajie for Tianmen Mountain, the Avatar-like peaks of the National Forest Park, glass bridges, cable cars, cliffside elevators and a zipline into the Grand Canyon. The world’s tallest bungy could be added for anyone who thinks the glass bridge feels a little too safe. The boys have already done the recce. You’re getting the version they’d go back for.

It’s ARRIVAL’s first birthday, and that deserves a fat celebration. Jack and Matt are opening the doors to the ARRIVAL community to spend five nights at Desa Potato Head, voted one of the top hotels in Asia and one of the most genuinely considered venues on earth. This is a living village built around music, art, food, culture and a commitment to doing good while having the best time possible. With daily beach club sunsets, six restaurants, rooftop yoga, the (farm)acy apothecary and a community energy, this week is going to be one for the record books. The celebration kicks off with a rooftop DJ set, before the whole crew boards a yacht on day 2 for a three-hour sunset cruise along the Bali coastline. Day 3 is an experience day shaped to your liking, where you can choose between whitewater rafting and sunrise volcano treks, surf lessons with Rip Curl, farm to table cooking in Bali's rice terraces or a full wellness day at Potato Head. The ARRIVAL closing party is Saturday night at Klymax, the purpose-built underground club inside the Desa. This is fully private, with ARRIVAL guests only, joined by The Inspired Unemployed and their mates partying with us till early morning. The Savaya night is yours to choose: Friday or Saturday, entry included either way. Number one club in Asia, 100 metres above the Indian Ocean on the cliffs of Uluwatu, jungle behind you, open sky ahead. Franky Wah headlines on the Saturday. Pick Savaya for Friday and you get the cliffs and the closing party on the Saturday. Every day includes breakfast for two, a two-course dinner, a daily cocktail and exclusive beach club access. This is ARRIVAL's first birthday and you're on the guest list. Don’t miss it.

Most people come back from India and say it was overwhelming. They are not wrong. Nobody is ready for Delhi the first time. The noise, the colour, the smell of spice markets and something frying somewhere nearby. Your brain spends the first few hours just trying to keep up. Then it stops trying and you embrace it. You eat jalebi from a fourth-generation family stall. You watch the Taj Mahal turn from grey to gold in the first light of morning. You sit at the edge of Lake Pichola in Udaipur and take in the silence. And then there is Holi. One of the oldest and most joyful festivals on earth. A Hindu spring celebration marking the triumph of good over evil and the arrival of a new season. The night before, bonfires called Holika Dahan are lit across towns and cities and people gather to sing and circle the flames. Then morning arrives and the whole of India throws coloured powder and water at everyone it can find. Gulal (coloured powder) in pink and yellow and green and blue. Gujiya pastries shared between neighbours. Thandai (traditional, cold sweet milk drink) passed around in the streets. Music from every direction. Strangers welcomed like family. This trip is built around that day. Eleven nights with a small ARRIVAL crew moving through the cultural heart of North India, from Old Delhi to the Taj to the forts and palaces of Rajasthan, finishing in Pushkar where Holi is celebrated with a particular energy that exists nowhere else on earth. Private group transport throughout. Local guides in every city. Daily breakfast included.

There are wine festivals. And then there is Pair'd. Pair'd Margaret River Region is Western Australia's leading wine and food festival, designed from the ground up through the lens of a sommelier. Not a weekend of generic tastings and canapés. A three-day, fully curated celebration that treats wine as the starting point for something much larger: extraordinary food, music, culture and the kind of connection that only happens when the right people are gathered with a glass of wine in hand. Three hours south of Perth and a world away from anything ordinary. The Margaret River Region provides the setting. Ancient landscapes shaped by Wadandi people. A coastline that stops people mid-sentence. Wineries producing bottles that belong alongside the best in the world. Coastal air and the particular quality of light that the south-west of Western Australia does better than almost anywhere else on earth. The best part? You do not need a passport and you barely need to take time off work. Direct flights from Sydney and Melbourne land in Busselton in under three hours. This is the excuse you have been looking for to finally make the trip to WA, and spring is the best time to do it. Friday night is New Wave Gathering at Chow's Table, with next-generation winemakers, endless Chinese food from Mal Chow, DJs running all evening and a headline performance from Boo Seeka, an Australian electropop artist. Saturday is Pair'd Beach Club on the sands of Meelup Beach, with freshly shucked oysters, a four-course lunch curated by sommelier Cyndal Petty and the Indian Ocean directly in front of you. Between and beyond, more than twenty-five additional Pair'd experiences run across the region. The Timothée Resort as your shared base throughout. This is your way in.

Out of Matt and Jack’s inner circle, Callum and Hannah are the ones you want on the mountain with you. They are not here to march everyone around or wave a flag at the top of the chairlift. Both epic skier and boarder, Callum and Hannah are simply there to make sure the week runs smoothly, help everyone settle in, bring the group together when it matters and make the whole thing feel like travelling with a group of mates. Some mornings the whole crew will head out together chasing the best conditions. Other days people naturally split into smaller groups, explore different resorts or take a slower day discovering onsens and cafés.

Japan doesn't waste your time. Neither does this trip. Seven nights moving through the country's three greatest cities, and every single one of them delivers something the last one didn't. You land in Tokyo and check into a capsule pod in Shinjuku. By 7pm you're at an izakaya eating local food and by 10pm you're in Golden Gai, over a hundred bars compressed into laneways so narrow two people can barely pass each other. Day two is Harajuku, Shibuya Crossing from a rooftop and karaoke until midnight with all-you-can-drink and a room full of people who already feel like old friends. Day three is the bullet train through Japanese countryside, arriving into Kyoto in the afternoon for Kiyomizu-dera at golden hour and the walk back through Sannenzaka and Ninenzaka as the lanterns light the way home. Osaka arrives on Day 4. Louder. Brighter. Dotonbori at dusk, a bicycle tour through the markets and retro backstreets and dinner in Shinsekai surrounded by locals who've been coming here for years. Then back to Tokyo for the finale, sumo at the Ryogoku Kokugikan, where bouts that last less than ten seconds leave the whole room holding its breath. Small ARRIVAL crew throughout. Local guide for the key moments. All major transport handled. Daily breakfast sorted. This is Japan with the logistics taken care of and the freedom completely intact.

The things you feel at 5,364 metres are hard to explain to anyone who hasn't been there. That's why you go with twenty people who will understand exactly what you mean. This is an ARRIVAL-exclusive departure to Everest Base Camp, hosted by Liam and supported by Earthbound Expeditions, a locally rooted Nepali team with deep ties to the Khumbu region. If you know Liam, you already know why this trip exists. If you don't, you will by Day 3. He's the energy that gets you up the hill on the hard days, the one who finds something worth laughing about when you’re struggling, and the reason twenty strangers become a bunch of mates that stay in touch long after Kathmandu. The route runs from Kathmandu's ancient spiritual circuit through the Khumbu Valley past Sherpa villages, Buddhist monasteries and glacial terrain that gets more extraordinary the higher you climb. You'll trek through rhododendron forests, cross suspension bridges over rivers that drop beneath you, sleep in teahouses at altitude where the food is simple. You'll wake before dawn on Day 11 to climb Kala Patthar for a sunrise over Everest. This isn't a race to the top. There will be days where the only thing getting you to the next teahouse is the person walking beside you. That's the whole point. Twenty travellers. One host. One very big mountain.

Queenstown transforms into New Zealand's wildest alpine playground, and you're locked in with VIP access to all of it. Spend your mornings carving fresh lines at The Remarkables and Coronet Peak with a four-day lift pass, then trade your ski boots for festival wristbands as the sun drops and Snow Machine takes over the town. We're talking street takeovers that shut down the entire downtown, and arena nights where it turns the Southern Alps into one massive outdoor club. Between the chaos, reset in New Zealand's first floating sauna on Lake Whakatipu, fuel up at Wharf Bar – the waterfront spot everyone's talking about – and crash in accommodation so central you'll roll from bed to shuttle to mountain to main stage without breaking a sweat. This isn't just a ski trip. This isn't just a festival. This is Queenstown when it goes completely off – powder, parties, and lake plunges all week long. Come for the snow, stay because you've never felt this alive.

Tomorrowland Thailand is one of those trips you don’t really overthink. Just a chance to escape the mundane and fully immerse yourself in another world. Set in Wisdom Valley, just outside Pattaya, this is Tomorrowland’s first full-scale chapter in Asia. Four nights built around three days of music. A place where music, nature and people from all over the world come together for something bigger than just a lineup. Make your way down to the coast to settle into Pattaya at the Siam @ Siam Design Hotel, your base for four nights. Days ease in slowly. Breakfast by the rooftop infinity pool, a walk by the water, time to reset before everything kicks off again. Afternoons drift into sunset, and turn to night without you noticing. Music carries through the valley. Stage lights cut through the dark. You move between stages, meet people you didn’t expect to meet, and somewhere in the middle of it all, you lose track of time completely. There’s no plan here. Just showing up, following the energy, and letting it unfold - this is the magic of Tomorrowland.

There's a version of Japan that does everything at once. This trip chases all of it. Ten nights with a small ARRIVAL crew moving through the full sweep of the country. It’s ancient and electric, quiet and completely alive, and all of it coexists in a way that completely makes sense. You'll land in Tokyo and be eating izakaya food with your crew within hours. From there the trip builds. Mt Fuji at sunrise, bullet trains through countryside that changes texture every twenty minutes, Kyoto's temple streets at golden hour, Osaka by bicycle through the markets and backstreets and sumo in Tokyo to close it all out. This is a small ARRIVAL crew of four to eight, with all key transport handled and enough structure to see it all properly, with enough freedom to pick and choose the activities you like. Every hotel is within walking distance of what matters. Daily breakfast sorted. This is Japan with the logistics handled and the freedom intact. Japan holds every contrast simultaneously and this ten-night ARRIVAL Takeover moves through as many of them as possible.

This is Kyrgyzstan, unfiltered. An eight-day motorcycle odyssey through alpine passes, red clay villages, glacier-fed rivers and vast nomadic plains. You’ll ride 250cc enduro bikes off-road for six full days, stay in yurts, eat with shepherds and disconnect from the modern world. Think: wild terrains, full support crew and stories that’ll outlive your tan lines. No fluff. Just throttle, culture and high-altitude soul.

Conquer the diverse landscapes of the Bolivian Andes with this ARRIVAL odyssey. Experience ultimate freedom in the world's largest salt flat, ride through the infamous Death Road's jungle cliffs and waterfalls and discover the unique culture of the indigenous people. You’ll climb from humid jungle to the oxygen-thin spine of the Andes, chase the ghosts of Che Guevara, rip across the salar like it’s your personal salt playground, and drift through markets, mines, and Mad Max dreamscapes. It’s a full-throttle encounter of Bolivia’s wild side. Where altitude stings, culture hums and every mile tells a story. This trip is designed for one to seven people. If you're trying to book for more, it won’t work – not because we don’t want you there, but because this experience only makes sense with that number.

Nowhere in the world has the same atmosphere as Oktoberfest. You don't understand the scale of it until you're standing in the middle of it, stein raised, with thousands of strangers singing along to Robbie Williams and a bunch of German songs you'll never translate. This is ARRIVAL's take on it. And it's properly done. Five nights across two of Germany's greatest cities, hosted by Happy Allan, professional beer enthusiast, dart smoking champion, cream pie connoisseur and cultural Aussie icon. He knows Oktoberfest. He knows what he's doing. You're in good hands. It starts in Berlin. Two nights in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the gritty, electric creative heart of the city, with an authentic welcome dinner on night one where you'll meet your Berlin host and the crew you'll be spending the next five days with. Night two is the Private Berlin Underground Party Tour, four groups, four different routes through Berlin's real nightlife, each led by a local who actually lives in it. Three hours of genuine Berlin. Then the train south to Munich, tickets pre-booked and handed to you before you board. You'll be met at the station with an ARRIVAL flag and transferred directly to the Stoketoberfest campsite where your Comfort+ tent is waiting. From there the Stoke Travel team take over. Unlimited beer and sangria from 8am. Hot breakfast with bottomless mimosas every morning. The best way to start your day loading up before heading into the beer halls at Oktoberfest grounds. World-class entertainment until 11pm and an afterparty with a live DJ from there until late. By day you're up early snagging tables in the big tents, moving from Paulaner to Augustiner, eating your way through cinnamon waffles and pork knuckle and losing your stomach on the rides at sunset. This is the trip you've been saying you'd do for years. You're out of excuses.