Elevate Destinations

Experts in socially responsible luxury travel. We design travel experiences that support conservation and local communities without skimping on comfort.

Testimonials from our travelers to Central America

Elevate Destinations planned our summer family vacation to Belize and it was the perfect combination of adventure, relaxation, and service. We spent the first four nights in the jungle near San Ignacio, hiking, swimming, waterfall jumping, volunteering at a local coffee farm, visiting Mayan ruins, and caving, where we saw more Mayan artifacts. We spent the second four nights on the beach in Placencia, where we did scuba diving, snorkeling, relaxing on the beach, and completed a two morning service project building an eco-friendly stove (called the Justa stove) for a local Belizian family in need. It was such a perfect adventure for our family. I think everyone appreciated the time together and the ability to give back as well. Elevate provided a high- touch and personalized service from start to finish, selecting beautiful accommodations, customizing tours and activities to meet our needs, and taking the time to connect us with the local Belize GNO that we would be volunteering with in advance of our travels. Highly recommend this group for their thoughtful itinerary and personal touch. This trip made some lasting memories for our family!

— Colleen Lee, Belize

Belize: A tropical beach with white sand, palm trees, green bushes, and clear blue sky. The calm ocean waves touch the shore, and a small hut is visible in the distance by the water.

Everything was great overall. This was a last-minute trip, and my first one with very little kids. I'm glad I invested in a guided private tour, which made the experience doable as a single parent.

— Aisha Shaheen, Belize

I’m in a new chapter of my personal life. I wanted and needed my travel experiences to reflect a profound transformation that was taking place, but I didn’t know exactly how to achieve a trip that could do this. I’m in my 40s. I’m not on a college gap year, I’m not part of a group, and I was planning to travel alone for the first time.

Enter Lana and Elevate Destinations. She had the wisdom, insight, knowledge, experience and compassion to guide me down the path to the perfect trip to match where I was in my life. She knew this wasn’t a vacation, but in a lot of ways a healing journey.

No detail was left to chance, she took care of every logistical detail eliminating all the worry, she paired me with the perfect hotels and excursions and the volunteer work that filled my soul in a ways I didn’t know possible.

— Stefanie Lerner, Costa Rica

Belize: Four people smile while serving food outdoors under a canopy. Two women and a man hold serving spoons over large yellow buckets, with plates of food in front of them. Another young woman stands to the side holding her plate.

The most amazing trip! We will never forget and never be the same.

And we will be back!

Elevate Destinations was the perfect partner for our adventure and will be planning our future travels.

— Leslie Hsu Besner and Family, Belize

All the guides were amazing and super knowledgeable. I especially enjoyed travel near Arenal. It was very beautiful and the adventures were very informative. Costa Rica is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been and if you want to be immersed in wildlife it is definitely the place to go.

— Leah Donehy, Costa Rica

We were all incredibly impressed with the knowledge the tour guides displayed. The schools there do an excellent job of teaching the archaeology, plant/animal names, eco-sensitivity to their guides, and it showed! We also found not one single tour guide or resort employee who was falsely friendly; in fact, a few of them were shy! We really appreciated that gratuities were included in the resort costs because it simplified the whole "Do I tip this person?" angst. Elevate Destinations did a fantastic job of hearing how we identified ourselves and the activities we thought we wanted to explore. The schedule was full without wiping us out, and each day proceeded seamlessly. We all even noted that doing the jungle first and ocean second was ideal for our family. I highly recommend Pooks Hill especially to anyone looking for environmentally respectful. The food was outstanding, and the atmosphere home-like. We look forward to returning and to using Elevate Destinations again!

— The Campbell Family, Belize

Dominique is a wealth of knowledge and wonderful to work with.

We loved our trip and can't wait to book our next vacation!

— Nichole Savenor, Belize