Luxury Travel in Peru
Peru is easy to sell and hard to sequence.
Peru took South America's Leading Destination at the World Travel Awards in 2025, a voted award, and Machu Picchu took Leading Tourist Attraction. Lima has two former number ones of The World's 50 Best Restaurants: Central in 2023, Maido in 2025. The journey still fails on order: altitude, a town no road reaches, a citadel nobody can hire.
Algoz is a protection house that designs luxury travel in Peru, so the route, the driver and the officer are one decision. Send the dates and who travels. You receive the days in order and one figure per line, under NDA.
- Nights in the right order: low first, Cusco last
- Named Machu Picchu tickets bought early, by circuit and hour
- A private carriage requested, never promised
- Houses booked by the room or the casita, not the category
- Luggage moved by road while you take the train
- Licensed protection where the profile asks for it
Luxury travel in Peru, answered plainly.
A journey, not a package
Built around your party, not sold per person from a fixed collection. One named contact arranges the tickets, trains, houses, drivers and, where needed, the officer.
What a luxury trip to Peru costs
Two ways in: as a member, or journey by journey, quoted to the brief. The figures are set out under Indicative Investment below.
How far ahead to ask
We ask for at least seven days. Under 48 hours carries an urgency fee and is not guaranteed. Machu Picchu tickets are named and capped, and Maido opens its book two months ahead, on the first of each month.
A week, ten days or two weeks
About a week for Lima, the valley, Machu Picchu and Cusco; ten days with one addition; two weeks with Arequipa or a river ship.
Can Machu Picchu be private?
Nobody hires the citadel. You choose who guides you, the hour you enter, the route you walk and a room at the lodge by the gate.
Does the journey include protection?
Only if you ask: a separate service through licensed Peruvian partners, from USD 750 per day for one officer on twelve-hour cover. See bodyguard services in Peru.
Luxury travel services in Peru.
Hotels, Casitas and Exclusive-Use Houses
Named as venues: Palacio Nazarenas, Monasterio and Inkaterra La Casona in Cusco; Sol y Luna, Rio Sagrado and Inkaterra Hacienda Urubamba in the valley; Titilaka on the lake. Exclusive use is asked of the owner, never promised.
Private Carriages and Sleeper Cabins
The Hiram Bingham and the Andean Explorer by cabin or carriage, requested for your date. Inca Rail's The Private gives one party a lounge and bar carriage with an open-air balcony.
Private Aviation
General aviation handling at Jorge Chávez in Lima. Charter to regional airports depends on the operator and on permits. See private jet charter.
River, Lake and Coast
A suite or a whole ship on the Amazon, a boat on Lake Titicaca, the Ballestas Islands from Paracas. On the river we use reputable operators only, as Canadian and British advice asks.
Archaeologists, Curators and Tables
For the Inca sites, a licensed guide who is an archaeologist; if none of that standard is free, we say so. Museo Larco designs visits led by educators or curators on request, and Museo Pedro de Osma offers private visits. Tables are requested, never promised. See concierge in Lima.
Drivers and Protection
Chauffeurs for the valley and the coast, luggage carried by road, licensed protection where the profile asks. See executive transportation in Peru and how close protection works.
The order that respects altitude: Lima, the valley, Machu Picchu, then Cusco
Begin in Lima, at 161 m. Fly to Cusco and do not stay: the car goes straight down to the Sacred Valley, to Urubamba at about 2,870 m or Ollantaytambo at about 2,790 m. Visit Machu Picchu from there, at about 2,430 m. Sleep in Cusco last, at 3,399 m. Lake Titicaca, at 3,812 m, and Rainbow Mountain, over 5,000 m, wait until after. TravelHealthPro, the UK travel-health service, says travellers who fly straight to altitude should strongly consider rest days, and that fitness does not protect. Valley first is a sensible plan, not a medical standard: see a travel-medicine clinician before you book. Belmond states that all 55 suites at Palacio Nazarenas are enriched with oxygen: a hotel feature, not a health claim.
Concierge in CuscoThe Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu: what can be private, and what cannot
The valley is yours to pace: the circular terraces of Moray, Pisac and Ollantaytambo. The citadel is not: there is no private opening, no visit outside the ticketed hours and no re-entry. The Ministry of Culture sells named tickets, paid in full, with no change of name or date under its rule of 11 September 2026. Entry is by circuit and route, three circuits and ten routes since June 2024, on hourly slots from 06h00 to 15h00, capped at 4,500 visitors a day and 5,600 on the published high-capacity dates. What is yours to choose: your own licensed guide and party, the hour, the route, and a room at Sanctuary Lodge, which Belmond describes as the only hotel at the citadel gates. Sunrise is never promised.
Concierge in PeruThe trains from Ollantaytambo and Cusco: the Hiram Bingham, a private carriage and the Andean Explorer
Ollantaytambo is the main railhead for Machu Picchu, about an hour and a half from Aguas Calientes by PeruRail's figure. The Hiram Bingham, a Belmond train, has 84 seats, two dining cars, two bar cars and an observation car. Belmond offers a private carriage or the entire train: requested for your date, never promised. Its station, Poroy, Rio Sagrado or Pachar, depends on the date, and PeruRail gives January to April as bus-plus-train months, so it is confirmed at booking. Each traveller takes one piece of about 8 kg on the Machu Picchu trains, so the luggage goes by road with your driver. The Andean Explorer is the sleeper: 35 cabins, with observation, spa and piano bar cars. Cusco to Lake Titicaca is one night; Cusco to Arequipa by the lake is two.
Executive transportation in CuscoThe Amazon by river ship from Iquitos
No road joins Iquitos to the rest of Peru. You fly from Lima, about an hour and three quarters, and embark at Iquitos or at Nauta, about 100 km away on the only road, for the Marañón and the Pacaya Samiria reserve. The ships are small: Delfin I has 4 suites, Delfin II 14, Delfin III 22; Aria Amazon 16 and Aqua Nera 20. Aqua offers private charter, so three generations can ask for a whole ship. It rains all year, least from June to August; at high water, roughly December to May, the ships sail closer to the canopy. The alternative is a lodge: a direct flight from Cusco to Puerto Maldonado, then Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica, 35 cabanas and a canopy walkway 30 m up.
Yacht and vessel charterBeyond the classic route: Lake Titicaca, Paracas, the Nazca Lines by air and the north
On Lake Titicaca, Titilaka stands on a private peninsula. Paracas, on the south coast, is about 250 km from Lima, three to four hours by road, by route calculator and guidebook. The Nazca Lines are flown from Pisco airport, beside Paracas. We do not plan Cusco to Nazca overland: that road is reported to run through Abancay, which the US advisory lists at Level 4. The north is another journey: Kuélap, by cable car; Gocta, 771 m in two drops; Máncora, hot from November to May. Honestly, it belongs to a third week or a second visit.
Private jet charterArequipa and the Colca by road: the jet, the driver and the officer as one plan
Arequipa, at 2,335 m, is the white city of volcanic stone and the gate to the Colca. Las Casitas is about three hours from Arequipa by Belmond's figure, over a road that guidebooks put near 4,800 m at its highest, so the driver, the hour and the altitude are planned together. By air, Lima is the gateway for a jet, and visitors do not reach Machu Picchu by helicopter. Aguas Calientes has no road, so a buffer day sits behind the rail day, and we do not pass blockades. Protection comes through licensed Peruvian partners.
Bodyguard in PeruWhen to go, and what each month changes.
Green Andes, sunny Lima
Cusco's heaviest rain. PeruRail runs its Cusco departures as bus plus train in these months, and the Inca Trail closes each February. For 2027 the Ministry lists 1 to 3 January and 25 to 28 March, Holy Week, as high-capacity days.
The turn of the season
Governments date the rainy season to May, so the buffer day stays. Machu Picchu is capped at 4,500 a day until 19 June.
Inti Raymi
Cusco stages it on 24 June each year, starting at Qorikancha and ending at Sacsayhuamán. The high-capacity season at Machu Picchu opens on 19 June 2027. Dry days, cold nights.
Dry Andes, grey Lima
Dry season is no promise: heavy rain closed Inca Trail routes in August 2026. Fiestas Patrias, on 28 and 29 July, is the peak domestic holiday.
Before the rains
The high-capacity season runs to 2 November 2027. Rain returns to the Andes through October, when the Lord of Miracles processions fill the centre of Lima.
Rain in the Andes, light on the coast
Rain can close road and rail with landslides. Lima's grey breaks up between mid-November and early December. High-capacity days return from 29 to 31 December 2027.
Brief, order, tickets, houses, movements, one contact.
The brief, under NDA
Dates, who travels, ages, health at altitude, and whether a known name is in the party.
The order
Altitude first, the calendar second: which nights are low, which day is the citadel, where the buffer day sits.
Tickets and trains
Named tickets by circuit and hour, then the train, then the carriage request. If a date fails, the proposal says so.
The houses
Chosen for the party: the suite with added oxygen, the ground-floor room, the house asked for exclusive use.
The movements
Aircraft, drivers, luggage, boats and, where the profile asks, the officer: one written plan.
One contact
One coordinator from the first message to the flight home, including the day a strike or the rain moves the order.
“In Peru the order is the luxury. The suite, the carriage and the table only work when the days fall in the right sequence.”
What luxury travel in Peru costs with Algoz.
As a member: Client Access is free on application, and the annual tiers start with Guild at EUR 6,000 per year. Or one journey, quoted to the brief. Either way every hotel, train, flight, ship, guide and driver is its own line, confirmed before you pay.
Close protection is separate: from USD 750 per day for one officer on twelve-hour cover, and a security-trained driver is priced the same way. Armed cover is on request only, where Peruvian law allows it: it needs a minimum 30-day lead for authorisation, may be refused and costs more. See membership tiers, what a luxury concierge costs and what a bodyguard costs.
Send the dates and who travels.
Tell us what the journey is for. You receive a written proposal with no obligation. Officer and driver profiles and the detailed routes follow once the engagement is confirmed and under NDA.
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Three generations, one pace
Pushchairs stay outside Machu Picchu; soft baby carriers without a metal frame, and rubber-tipped sticks for older visitors, are allowed. The US CDC notes that complex cases need evacuation to Lima or home, so evacuation insurance belongs in the brief.
The citadel, then the river
A casita in the valley, a carriage requested on the Hiram Bingham, then the Amazon. A proposal at the citadel is quiet by rule: no tripod, no drone, no costume.
Rest at the right height
Pools, sauna and steam baths at explora Valle Sagrado, the spa car on the Andean Explorer. On ayahuasca ceremonies we pass on what three governments say: a warning.
Light, within the rules
No tripods, stabilisers or drones inside Machu Picchu, so the picture is planned by hour and route. Then Moray, the Colca terraces and the river at first light.
A known name in a fixed place
Timed tickets and set circuits mean timing does the work. The party keeps its own guide, and any officer inside is unarmed: weapons of any kind stay out.
The names go in first
Tickets carry the holder's name and passport number and cannot change name or date, so the office sends the final party list before anything is bought.
Lima to the Amazon, in the order that works.
Lima, the Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu and Cusco first. Then Lake Titicaca, Arequipa and the Colca, Paracas and Nazca, Iquitos and Tambopata, and the north. The VRAEM and the border areas governments advise against stay off the route. See executive transportation in Lima, bodyguard in Lima, bodyguard in Cusco and travel and destination management.
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