Hello and welcome to Atlantic Guild

This is a place for people who are curating — or creating — the holidays of escape, rest, and renewal.

We are gathering the sites of cultivation: the ancient adventures, the places of blissful isolation, the models of living and hospitality that feel like a genuine alternative to the way things are usually done. At a moment when the old blueprints for how we organise our lives and our work are becoming obsolete, it feels like exactly the right time to look afresh at how we approach the holiday — time away, and what we're really looking for when we travel.

That's what we're doing here — gathering interesting places and bold models, and bringing together the insights, experience, and market signals that make the difference between a good idea and something that actually works.

Some of you are here with a vision and a blank page — a piece of land, an inheritance, an idea that won't quite leave you alone. Some of you already have a place and are wondering whether it could work harder, or differently, or simply better. And some of you are here as travellers — building a life in which the holidays layer meaning year on year, each one a little more considered than the last.

Having been both, and eventually built a retreat on the west coast of Scotland, I know how much a trusted source of insight and honest, like-minded company would have meant. Atlantic Guild is my attempt to build exactly that — a sourcebook and community for a new era of transformative escape.

Wherever you're starting from, welcome.

Claire Mookerjee — Founder