Exclusively for 40 guests, priced at USD 125,000 per person
Lush escapes, a Dubai-based luxury travel house, has set a new benchmark in ultra-luxury travel with the launch of Meridian One, a fully private, around-the-world journey aboard a chartered Boeing 757, priced at USD 125,000 per guest.
The first travel company in the Middle East to conceptualise and operate a journey of this nature, Lush escapes introduces Meridian One as a 22-night, invitation-only expedition limited to just 40 guests. Travelling in an all lie-flat private Boeing 757 configuration across eight countries, the journey departs Dubai on 29 November and returns on 21 December, positioning the city at the forefront of next-generation, experience-led luxury travel.
India’s UHNW consumers are increasingly shifting discretionary spend from assets and collectibles to defining experiences, fuelling a new category of experiential luxury driven by privacy, peer alignment, and rare access, with Indian entrepreneurs and family office principals emerging as a key cohort for invitation-only global journeys like Meridian One. For Lushescapes, this unique model positions the private aircraft as experience infrastructure, integrating aviation, hospitality, wellness, and security into one controlled ecosystem. Meridian One will become a go-to for Indian UHNW travel while offering a soft-power blueprint for premium Indian brands looking to globalise.
The private charter routes guests from Dubai to Iceland, Cuba, the Peruvian Amazon, Easter Island, French Polynesia, Australia, Thailand, and back to Dubai, removing the friction of commercial travel while delivering a continuous, uninterrupted global narrative.
“Meridian One was conceived for travellers who no longer measure luxury by square footage or star ratings,” says Abhishek Dadlani, Founder of Lushescapes. “This is about access, rhythm, and moments that are impossible to replicate independently. It is a world journey designed as a single, flowing experience rather than a collection of destinations.”
Unlike conventional luxury tours, Meridian One introduces what Lushescapes calls “Impossible Moments” at every destination. These are closed-door, non-commercial experiences created exclusively for this journey and unavailable to the general public.
Highlights include a restricted-access geothermal ceremony at dawn in Iceland, a private dinner inside a historic mansion in Havana hosted by cultural historians and musicians, a night ceremony with indigenous elders in the Amazon Rainforest, a sunset ritual at a restricted Moai site on Easter Island, ancestral lagoon navigation in Tahiti, a private dawn welcome on protected land in Australia’s Daintree rainforest, and a closed temple blessing followed by a farewell feast in Chiang Mai.
The onboard experience mirrors the exclusivity on the ground. Guests travel with silent cabin hours on long-haul sectors, curated welcome rituals, and concierge-led personalization beginning before departure in Dubai. Each guest receives a Meridian One welcome pack, while post-journey aftercare includes a private photo gallery, memory book, and personal correspondence.
Accommodation throughout the journey includes some of the world’s most discreet and prestigious properties, from the Blue Lagoon’s Retreat Hotel in Iceland to an Amazon river expedition aboard Zafiro, followed by handpicked luxury lodges and resorts across the Pacific and Asia.
Meridian One is not positioned as a recurring departure. It is designed as a single, time-bound journey, with no assurance it will ever be repeated in the same form. This is not a holiday, cruise, or tour. It is a private world journey created for those who have already seen the world and are ready to experience it differently.
