Ashore, on your own
On a cruise or a voyage, your own guide and car waiting at the quay. Private excursions away from the other passengers, and back aboard before the crowds return.
Curated experiences · by Shervin B. Hawley
Under sail at sunset, beneath the Pitons.
Escape your way · The Caribbean under sailPhotograph courtesy of Sea Cloud Cruises
Travel your way, composed personally and never assembled.
From a single remarkable hotel to a year of journeys, Shervin B. Hawley designs every detail around you, then stays on as your advisor long after you are home.
An independent affiliate of Direct Travel, a Virtuoso member agency
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Choose your way
Nine ways to begin. Each one composed around you.
Elevate your way
Powder mornings, long lunches on sunlit terraces, and a chalet that feels like yours. We match the mountain to the way you ski and the way you unwind.
Duration and price by arrangement
Moments apart
When everyone else goes one way, you go another
Before the doors open, after they close
Galleries, palaces, and ruins seen in the quiet hour: first light before the gates open, or an evening visit once the day's visitors have gone.
Where few ever go
Dinners, gatherings, and celebrations in places rarely opened to guests: a private island, a cloister, or a terrace kept for your evening alone.
Every moment arranged privately with our hosts. Tell us what you have in mind
The Emersify difference
One conductor. A world-class ensemble.
Personally designed
Shervin B. Hawley orchestrates every journey personally, bringing in the right specialists for each part while remaining your one point of contact.
Access others cannot offer
Private guides, after-hours visits, and doors that open only through relationships built over years.
Recognised on arrival
Hotels, ships, and lodges know you are coming, and quietly make room for the details that matter to you.
With you throughout
One point of contact before, during, and after your journey, with support around the clock.
How we work
The experience begins at “hello”
From your first message, everything is taken care of. Your wishes are anticipated, your preferences remembered, and every request, however small, is simply done.
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Hello
A personal reply the same day, and a conversation about who is travelling, what moves you and what you never want to do again.
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Design
A personal proposal within seven to ten days, refined together until it is exactly right.
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Arrangements
Every booking, amenity, guide, transfer, and table confirmed on your behalf.
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The journey
A beautiful digital itinerary and a direct line to your advisor while you travel.
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Return
A conversation about what you loved, and the first thoughts on where next.
A personal advisor
It is about the relationship, not the booking.
Once you become a client, Shervin becomes your personal travel advisor. A single hotel stay or a year of journeys, a quick weekend or a once-in-a-lifetime celebration: whatever you need, whenever you need it, arranged by someone who already knows how you like to travel.
Essentials
Stays and sailings
For a single destination, a resort stay, or a cruise, chosen with expert advice.
- Advisor recommendations
- Preferred amenities
- Complete arrangements
Signature
Custom journeys
Multi-destination itineraries designed from a blank page around you.
- Personal itinerary design
- Private guides and experiences
- Restaurant reservations
- Support while you travel
Bespoke
Beyond the ordinary
For multi-generational gatherings, celebrations, expeditions, and private charters.
- Everything in Signature
- Villas, yachts, and private aviation
- Celebration planning
- A dedicated direct line
A planning fee, agreed in our first conversation, reflects the depth of design each journey requires.
Signature voyages · By private invitation
Journeys you cannot put a price on
Escape your way
A tall ship, entirely ours
The Mediterranean as it was meant to be sailed: under canvas, aboard a tall ship, for a small circle of Emersify guests. A private voyage by Shervin B. Hawley.
Small harbours the great ships cannot reach, arrived at when the crowds have gone. Unhurried shore days, and evenings on deck that belong to no one else.
By invitation · Details on request
Voyage your way · The Heralds' Crossing
The great crossing, in noble company
New York to Southampton aboard the last great ocean liner, in the grand tradition. Even among the ship's finest suites, Emersify guests sail as a circle apart: their own table, their own evenings, and the company of distinguished guests from the world of heraldry, nobility, and royal ceremony.
Black tie as it was always meant to be worn, and conversation rarely heard at sea. On arrival, a few days behind the scenes at royal and ceremonial places, received as guests rather than visitors.
By invitation · Details on request
Celebrations and private events
Occasions, designed as carefully as journeys
From a dinner for twelve to a week-long celebration, we design the setting, the guests' travel, and every detail of the day, anywhere in the world.
Milestones
Anniversaries, significant birthdays, and family reunions, in a villa, a castle, or on the water.
Weddings abroad
Destination weddings, vow renewals, and honeymoons, with guests' travel arranged for them.
Private gatherings
Dinners, salons, and exclusive-use house parties at estates and properties rarely opened to guests.
Executive retreats
Leadership offsites and client gatherings for small groups, where the setting does half the work.
Groups, made personal
A hundred guests, and not one of them a number
Societies, clubs, companies, and families travel with us in groups of up to a hundred. The scale is larger; the attention is not. Every guest is known by name, and every day holds something the group will talk about for years.
A naval vessel to carry the party out to an island, for a day among its fortifications and military history.
A Roman banquet, served in a Roman palace.
A whole ship's company ashore, yet every table set as though for a private dinner.
Every event is planned in person, by arrangement. Tell us about your occasion
Dressed for the occasion
Arrive looking as though you belong
Black tie on a transatlantic crossing, dinner at a country house, a day at the races. Not sure you have quite the right attire? Simply tell us, and we will take care of it.
- Knowing what to wear
For each occasion on your journey, we tell you exactly what is expected, from dress codes at sea to what is worn in the enclosure.
- Anything missing, we will provide
From a white dinner jacket for the crossing to a linen suit for Cairo, our sister house, Hawley & Allan, can outfit you in good time before you travel.
- Keepsakes by Hawley & Allan
Silk pocket squares and scarves designed for signature voyages and private events, made by Hawley & Allan, makers to clubs and societies.
The conductor
Shervin B. Hawley
Founder and Principal
Shervin had visited five continents before he was five. He has since travelled to more than 100 countries, earning membership of the Travelers' Century Club.
Before founding Emersify, he led the customer experience practice of a global corporation. He is also a designer and artist, with a past in band management and record production. It shows in the way each journey is composed: an eye for detail, a sense of pace, and a feel for the moment that stays with you.
Long-standing relationships with historic, governmental, and cultural institutions open doors that rarely open. Shervin orchestrates every journey personally, from the first hello to the welcome home.
Every journey composed, never assembled.
- 100+countries travelled
- 5 before 5continents visited before his fifth birthday
The Gold Key
Private members · By invitation only
Some doors open only by introduction.
A private circle within Emersify, kept small by design. Its members are received at houses, voyages, and occasions that are never offered publicly, and are known to our hosts by name.
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By introduction
Membership begins with a word from an existing member, or from Shervin himself. There is no application form.
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Rare, like the metal
Gold Key experiences are few, and priced as the rarities they are. Means alone are never enough, though. We look for curiosity, courtesy, and guests our hosts will be glad to welcome back.
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In confidence
Members are never named, and what is seen behind closed doors stays there. Our hosts are afforded the same discretion.
Invitations are few, and extended personally.
Giving back
World Springboard
Shervin and Carrie Hawley founded World Springboard, an independent nonprofit that gives young people their first meaningful journey into the wider world, traveling together with a parent.
A percentage of Emersify's profits goes to support World Springboard. Every journey we compose for you helps open the world to a family who might otherwise never see it.
SpringboardWhere barriers end, discovery begins.
Begin your journey
Let us start with a conversation
Tell us a little about the journey you have in mind. Shervin will be in touch personally to arrange a time to talk.
The experience begins at “hello.”