This is the camp itself, charged once per family however many people you bring and however many rooms you hold. It includes: The whole team on the ground for thirteen nights, including the care team, the nurse and the lifeguard Private airport tra...

An adult is anyone 18 or over on 28 June 2027, the first day of camp. Count yourself and any other adults traveling as a part of your family. This charge covers thirteen breakfasts, lunch every day and thirteen dinners, wine and beer with dinner, ...

A child is anyone under 18 on 28 June 2027. Select the number you are bringing. Every child needs to fit within the capacity of the rooms you chose, and children of every age are welcome here. Our review of your registration will ensure your child...

You land in Lisbon and somebody is already there holding your name. From that moment until the morning you fly home, there is nothing for your family to run. Private transfers meet every family at Lisbon airport, timed to your own flight rather th...

As the sun begins to set over the vineyards, families gather for their first evening together at Torre de Palma, surrounded by the peaceful beauty of the Alentejo countryside. The first night is built as an arraial, the village street party Portug...

Three artisan days run through this camp, and this is the first. Clay, cork and cloth, taught by the people who work in them for a living. During this first artisan experience, families will be divided into three small groups, allowing for a more ...

A picnic set out under the olive trees on the estate. Alentejo bread, local sausage, cheese, olive oil pressed nearby, homemade jams, biscuits from the estate kitchen, Torre de Palma wine for the adults who want it, and fresh juice for everybody e...

Nothing is required. The pool, the horses, the shade, a book you have been meaning to get to since March. A minibus runs into town in the afternoon for anyone who wants it. The estate treasure hunt also starts today and runs to the end of camp, wi...

Dinner tonight is cooked in front of us. The chefs work through a starter, a main and a dessert in the open, explaining the techniques and the ingredients as they go, which is the fastest way anyone has found to understand why Alentejo food tastes...

We leave after breakfast with certified local guides and drive out to a town of whitewashed houses trimmed in blue and yellow, with a circular castle standing on the hill above it. Arraiolos is known across Portugal for one thing: the Tapete de Ar...

At midday we sit down inside a sixteenth century convent, in a dining room built for Poor Clare nuns that now looks out over the Alentejo plains. The kitchen cooks the region: olive oil, cured meats, almonds, cheese, and whatever the season is doi...

After lunch the children are kitted out in ancient warrior gear and turned loose below the circular hilltop castle with water balloons and water pistols to reenact the nearby Battle of Atoleiros which transformed a localized uprising in Lisbon in ...

Overview While the battle is going on, the adults take thirty minutes in the church of the convent next door, lined floor to ceiling in the blue and white azulejos that Portugal built its churches out of. It is a short visit and a deliberately qui...

Aperitivo first, for the adults and the children both. Dinner tonight is deliberately informal, because the children come back from the castle wet and wired and nobody wants to sit them down to five courses. The kitchen sends out a run of petiscos...

The morning belongs to the children, out on the estate grounds, playing the games Portuguese children have played for generations: corrida de sacos, corrida do ovo na colher, jogo do galo, saltar à corda, jogo da macaca, jogo do pião, jogo do berl...

While the village games are happening, the adults who want to go head out on the first of the adults-only outings. We will head into Herdade da Maroteira, a 540 hectare working farm on the foothills of the Serra d'Ossa, held by the same Anglo-Port...

Those who are interested can spend their afternoon with the estate's own Lusitanos horses and the expert instructors. For those who want a more relaxing afternoon, the property and its amenities are yours to enjoy.

In the evening, local grandmothers take over the estate kitchen and cook the way their families have cooked for generations, with all of us in the room. They will put your children to work. Then the whole camp sits down at one long table and eats ...

The makers come back and we rotate through all three again, an hour with each. Today we build. In every craft you take the first real step on a piece that is yours: the clay gets shaped, the cork gets cut, the cloth gets started. This is the sessi...

Lunch happens at the pool, and the chefs make it in front of us: a sushi counter set up outside, everything cut and rolled to order while you watch. After that, an afternoon with nothing in it at all and you can just enjoy being in this time at th...

In the late afternoon we drive the adults out to the Paço do Morgado de Oliveira, one of the oldest buildings in Évora, founded in 1306 and now home to Fita Preta. We are walked through the estate and the cellar, then sit down to dinner built arou...

The children are not being left behind tonight, they are also getting a special experience of their own. Dinner is pizza with a twist, then a film outside with blankets and popcorn. The older kids will follow it up with the first of the two Bunk H...

This morning we leave with a local guide for Estremoz, a town built of marble. On Saturdays the historic centre fills with farmers, potters, antique dealers and everybody's grandmother. We work our way through the stalls: seasonal produce, local s...

We stop for lunch at a family-run restaurant in Estremoz.

In the afternoon we drive on to Vila Viçosa, once the seat of the House of Braganza, and go into the Paço Ducal, the palace the Dukes lived in before they became kings of Portugal. We walk through the rooms they actually used, past the furniture a...

Today also presents another opportunity for those who are inclined to experience the estate's Lusitano horses.

Tonight is a big seated dinner: Chef Eduardo Grilo and the Torre de Palma Sommelier invite you to enjoy a carefully curated five-course dining experience. Inspired by the richness of Alentejo cuisine, each dish is thoughtfully paired with wines fr...

This is the only optional add-on in the whole camp, and it starts in the dark. We collect you from the lobby before sunrise and drive out to the launch field near the estate, where you meet your pilot, and get the safety briefing. Then you lift of...

Sleeper-inners and early risers meet back at breakfast, one lot properly rested and the other lot exhilarated by the ride, and then the morning belongs to everybody. Every adult has one spa treatment included in the price of camp, chosen from the ...

There is a Roman villa in the ground beside this estate, which is where the place gets its name. Over a long lunch we will become Romans for the day: games, crafts and storytelling built around how the families who lived here cooked, made things, ...

Through the day each family takes a turn with the photographer, out in the vineyards, the olive groves and around the old buildings. No formal posing and no rush. She follows what is already happening and gets out of the way, and the pictures come...

Dinner is in the estate's courtyard tonight, over the kind of food that takes all afternoon: slow-cooked dishes brought to the table in the pots they were made in, the home cooking Portuguese families do on a Sunday.

We drive north in the morning, out through cork oak country and whitewashed villages, into pine woods, and down to the Montargil reservoir. The whole day happens on and around the water: swimming, canoes, stand-up paddleboards, boats, and more. A ...

Dinner tonight is a barbecue at the estate, eaten outdoors, and after a day spent in the water nobody wants anything more formal than that. A wine pairing for the adults who want one.

We spend the morning working alongside Évora City Council, on something the city needs rather than something we built for visitors to feel good about. The specific project will get set with the city closer to the date.

We eat lunch out, then head back for an afternoon on the estate, with the horses available for those who want a ride.

Dinner for the kids will be on the estate. Afterwards they get glow games and a storyteller, then the second Bunk House sleepover, with the team on through the night.

While the kids play, the adults will have a special experience on the property. We are keeping this one as a surprise, so no hints here!

Inside one set of UNESCO-listed walls there is a Roman town, a medieval town and a university town stacked on top of each other, and a certified local guide walks us through all three. We start in the Praça do Giraldo, where the city lives rather ...

The last stop of the morning is inside the Igreja de São Francisco: a seventeenth century chapel lined floor to ceiling with human bones. Monks built it as an argument about how short a life is, and it makes the argument well. Older children tend ...

We eat lunch in town, then drive out in the afternoon to a cheese factory and a working cow farm, where the children make cheese themselves in a workshop and meet the animals it comes from. Anyone small enough to need a nap can take the early shut...

Dinner is back on the estate, with a wine pairing for the adults who want one Then, after dark, the telescopes come out at the tower and in the gardens for a couple of hours experiencing some of the darkest skies in Europe. You will find the pole ...

The artisans come back one last time. We work in the same three groups, and this session is about finishing: the last details, the techniques that make a handmade object look deliberate rather than approximate, and then it is yours to take home.

The middle of the day is a long brunch, Portugal-style. After that, the estate grounds turn into a field day for the children, with the Kids Olympics, inflatables, water games and the last stretch of the treasure hunt, all run by the childcare tea...

Tonight the whole camp takes over a local restaurant for an authentic portugese family-style dinner. After we return to the property, there is a special activity for the adults, and the childcare team on for the kids.

We drive out in the morning to Herdade da Fonte Santa, the home of Mainova wine estate, now run by the founding family's youngest daughter and her husband. A private guide will walk us through the vines and the groves and the thinking behind how t...

Tonight for dinner the kitchen cooks cabrito, kid goat roasted slowly in the wood-fired oven, which is one of the dishes Portugal is most serious about. Traditional accompaniments, and an optional pairing for the adults.

The childcare team is on the grounds for the whole day, with a full program running from breakfast onward, so nobody in your family has to be the one packing a suitcase while everyone else is in the pool. Parents get the morning to close things do...

We finish on the biggest meal of the camp. Two chefs cook it together, four hands on one menu that exists for this night and will not be served again. Accompanying the meal, a Rancho Folclórico Alentejano performs: the groups that keep the region'...