About us
A small studio that plans trips
Founded in 2014 in Amsterdam. Nine people, six destinations, and a deliberate decision not to grow much beyond that.
Why we started
Revikta began after one too many trips where the itinerary looked impressive on paper and exhausting in practice. Four countries in ten days is a logistics exercise, not a holiday.
So we built the opposite. We pick a handful of regions, spend years getting to know them, and design routes with deliberate gaps in them — the unscheduled afternoon that turns out to be the day people remember.
We are not the cheapest option and we do not try to be. What we offer is a trip where somebody has thought carefully about the order of the days, and a phone number that a person answers when the weather turns.
Principles
Four things we will not trade away
Small enough to be welcome
Twelve travellers is our ceiling and eight is more typical. A group that size can eat in a family restaurant without taking it over.
Local hosts, paid properly
Every destination has a host who lives there year-round. They set their own rates and we publish no trip without one.
Fewer places, longer stays
We would rather give you three nights somewhere than one night in three places. Packing is not a holiday activity.
Honest about the trade-offs
If shoulder season means some restaurants are shut, we say so up front rather than let you discover it on arrival.
The team
Who you will actually deal with
Mira Saarinen
Founder, routes & Nordics
Fifteen years guiding in Iceland and northern Finland before starting Revikta. Still leads the aurora departures personally.
Tomas Leitão
Mediterranean & logistics
Former ferry-line operations planner, which is exactly the background you want when a coast road closes.
Aiko Tanaka
Japan & artisan programme
Kyoto-based. Knows which workshops welcome visitors and which would rather be left alone — and respects the difference.
Travellers
Testimonials
Collected after the trip, published unedited.
We had been to Greece twice before and seen almost none of this. The caïque nights were the part our children still talk about.
Nine days, three workshops, and not one moment that felt like a coach tour. The indigo dyer alone was worth the flight.
A storm closed the coast road on day two. They had rerouted the whole afternoon before we had finished breakfast.
Three nights out in the countryside instead of Reykjavík was the right call — we saw the aurora on two of them.
Want to talk it through first?
No obligation, and we will tell you honestly if we are the wrong fit.