162. Your 2027 Set Jetting Group Trips — The Preview
Welcome back to another episode of Jet Setting with Me. It’s me, Michele, your friendly wanderlust instigator.
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I want to start with a moment.
The most recent set-jetting group trip I organized was the Bridgerton Spring Soiree. If you heard Episodes 148 and 154, you already know what that experience looked like from the inside. If you didn’t, both links are in the show notes — and I’d particularly point you toward Episode 154, where Trish Boyd, one of the trip participants, described what it felt like in a way that I honestly couldn’t have done better myself.
What Trish captured — and what I watch happen on every set-jetting trip I organize — is a very specific moment. The moment when a traveler steps into a place, they’ve seen a hundred times on a screen and the distance between viewer and participant simply disappears. The street is real. The light is real. The feeling that’s been building through seasons of watching is suddenly something you’re standing inside rather than looking at through glass. It’s not nostalgia. It’s arrival. And that moment is what I build every one of these trips around.
Starting in 2027, I’m doing it four times. One per quarter. Four of the most beloved shows in television history. A maximum of fifteen people per trip — intimate, personalized, and built entirely around the idea that the best travel is the kind that makes you feel like you finally arrived somewhere you’ve always been.
Today is the first look at all four. Full details — dates, special guests, specific itineraries — are coming later this summer. But right now, the interest list is open. If any of what you’re about to hear calls to you, DM me at @jetsettingwithmichele or use the link in the show notes to join the waitlist. The people on that list will be the first to know everything when details drop. Ready? Let’s get into it.
Trip One: Emily in Paris — Spring 2027
There has not been a Darren Star show that hasn’t been a defining chapter of my life. And
Emily in Paris — the fashion, the food, the over-the-topness of it all, the filming locations, the sheer audacity of that wardrobe — is no exception. This trip is the one I’ve had most fully formed in my head from the very beginning. And it is the one I am personally most excited about.
Here’s the concept: we are not picking one city. We are following the arc of the show across three countries — France, Italy, and Greece — literally stepping through the seasons of Emily’s world. Spring in Paris. The warmth of Italy. The light of Greece. This is a land-based trip because the whole point is to inhabit the locations, not sail past them.
In Paris, we'll be staying in the heart of the city — in the kind of residential, genuinely Parisian neighborhood that Emily actually calls home. The Latin Quarter, the 5th arrondissement, about fifteen minutes from the Eiffel Tower and a world away from the tourist-heavy streets. This is where Emily's apartment sits, where Gabriel's restaurant is around the corner, where the city feels like people actually live in it. That is exactly the energy we're bringing. The filming locations, the cafés, the cobblestone streets — all of it. But this trip goes further than sightseeing. There will be a professional photography experience — a photographer who knows the exact angles, the exact light, the exact framing that made the show's most iconic images. Your Instagram will never recover. There will be a croissant-baking class. One of many surprises you will experience includes time at one of my favorite experiences in Paris, and one that I promise you will think about long after you've come home. If you want a hint check out Episode #151.
From Paris, we follow Emily to Italy — the world of Season Three — and then to Greece for the show’s Mediterranean chapter. Three countries. One story. Fifteen people in the fandom will travel with local guides who actually live in these places, not with the typical supplier roster.
I’ll tell you why this trip feels so personal to me. The first time I saw the Eiffel Tower — my very first trip to Paris — I gasped. Out loud, in the backseat of a cab. Exactly as Emily does in Season #1 on one of her runs, where she captures the image and begins to grow her IG. And when I was later in Paris walking her exact route — from the front door of her building to Gabriel’s restaurant and along to the flower market with a photographer at my side — it felt like my own Emily experience. Not a visit. An inhabitant. That feeling is exactly what I’m building for the fifteen people who come on this trip.
Special guests, surprises, and the full itinerary are coming later this summer. Join the waitlist, and you’ll be first to know.
Trip Two: Harry Potter — Shoulder Season 2027
If you’ve ever watched Harry receive his Hogwarts letter and felt a very specific, very personal disappointment when yours didn’t arrive — this trip was made for you.
We are going to England and Scotland. Both. Because the wizarding world lives in both, and doing this trip halfway would be a crime.
The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London is a non-negotiable anchor of this itinerary — and I can speak to it firsthand, because I’ve been. What I wasn’t prepared for was how the tour makes the magic of filmmaking completely visible. You see the actual sets where scenes were filmed. You understand, in a way that photographs never capture, the sheer craft involved. There is a moment — and I’ll let you discover it yourself — where you understand how they made Hagrid appear to be a giant by making everything around him seem like a dollhouse. Miniature furniture. Miniature props. Ordinary-sized Robbie Coltrane. The effect is extraordinary. And when you see it in person, you understand why this world felt real to an entire generation of readers.
Let me give you a sense of what these trips actually feel like on the ground. On a previous set-jetting trip, we made a stop at Lacock — a village in the Cotswolds tucked between London and Bath — which is one of the primary filming locations for the wizarding world. Its timber-framed streets doubled as Godric's Hollow. The cloisters of Lacock Abbey served as the interior corridors of Hogwarts, including Professor Quirrell's classroom and the Chapter House where the Mirror of Erised was kept. One of the participants was a grown woman — someone who has read those books more times than she can count. When she stood in that cloister and understood where she was, she told me she felt like a teenager again, reading those pages for the very first time. I loved every second of watching that happen. That is exactly the moment the 2027 Harry Potter trip is being built around. The full itinerary of filming locations across England and Scotland is being carefully curated — and the details will be worth the wait.
In Scotland, the Glenfinnan Viaduct — the Hogwarts Express crossing the Highlands — and the landscapes that made this world feel ancient and inevitable. And yes, there will be a castle stay. Because if you are doing a Harry Potter trip and not sleeping in a castle, you have not fully committed.
Shoulder season 2027. Specific dates and the surprises we have in store — coming later this summer.
Trip Three: Outlander — Shoulder Season 2027
I’ll be honest with you, because I always am. Outlander is not my personal show yet. But fans of this series have been asking for this trip more consistently than almost anything else, and when people ask that clearly and that persistently, I listen.
So here is what I can tell you. We are going to Scotland — all the regions that matter, achievable in seven days. We are doing this the Jet Setting with Michele way: local guides who live in these landscapes, not the standard tourist infrastructure. A whisky distillery experience, because Scotland and whisky are not separable. And a castle stay, because this particular show makes a castle stay feel not just appropriate but mandatory.
The filming locations that anchor this trip are among the most atmospheric in the country: Doune Castle, which served as Castle Leoch. Midhope Castle, which became Lallybroch. Craigmillar Castle. The village of Culross, which doubled as Cranesmuir. Culloden Battlefield — where the history is real, the weight of it is real, and standing there feels significant regardless of whether you arrived via the show or via a history book.
Here is what I will say to anyone who hasn’t watched Outlander: you do not need to have seen a single episode to fall in love with this trip. Scotland will take care of the rest. And I will tell you with complete confidence that you will start watching the show the moment you get home.
Details — including everything we have planned that I’m not telling you yet — coming later this summer.
Trip Four: Gilmore Girls — Mid-October 2027
I love watching Lorelai Gilmore. Fast-talking, sarcastic, coffee-dependent, relentlessly independent, and magnetic in a way that made you want to be in whatever room she was in. I fancy myself a lot like her — without the teenage kid part and the snobby WASP upbringing.
And fall is my favorite season. Always has been. So, when the fans who have been requesting a Gilmore Girls trip landed on my radar, and I started thinking about mid-October in Connecticut with the leaves at peak and Halloween approaching — a holiday that Stars Hollow celebrates with the full commitment of a town that takes its traditions very seriously — I was completely in.
The trip is rooted in Litchfield County, Connecticut — the real-world country that inspired Stars Hollow — and anchored at The Litchfield Inn. From there, we follow the show into the town itself: the farm-to-table welcome dinner that sets the tone for the whole trip; Luke’s Diner — the real place, the real inspiration; and the library that celebrates Rory’s Reading List, because Rory Gilmore read everything and somewhere in Connecticut, a library is honoring that.
My favorite line in the entire run of the show. Max asks Lorelai: “Do you like coffee?” She answers: “Only with my air.” Sassy, true, and completely Lorelai. If that line lands for you the way it lands for me, you already know whether this trip is yours.
Coming in mid-October 2027 for prime fall foliage. The full surprise itinerary — coming later this summer.
How to Join Any of These
Four shows. Four quarters. Fifteen people per trip — sixty spots total across four extraordinary experiences in 2027.
I want to be clear about what joining the interest list means right now. You are not committing to anything today. There are no deposits, no prices, no firm dates to share yet. What I’m asking is simply this: tell me which story you want to live inside. Because when the details drop later this summer — and there are some genuinely extraordinary details coming for each of these trips, including the special guests we’re building each experience around — the people on those lists will be first. First to know. First to have the opportunity to secure their spot.
These trips will fill. Fifteen people is a small room.
DM @jetsettingwithmichele, or use the link in the show notes, to join the waitlist for any trip that speaks to you. You can put your name on more than one list. There is no wrong answer.
Emily in Paris for the fashion, the food, and the feeling of Paris in spring. Harry Potter for the castle stay and the moment you finally stand inside Hogwarts. Outlander for the Highlands, the history, and the whisky. Gilmore Girls for the falling leaves, the coffee, and a small Connecticut town that feels, in October, like the whole world slowed down just enough to get it right.
Come with me.
Coming Up Next Week
Next week — the first of two Japan episodes. I am sitting down with clients who are traveling on their first trip to Japan, and we’re talking through their planning process from start to finish: what to consider, how to build the itinerary, and what surprises them about the planning.
Until next time, make every journey a memory worth savoring.
