Our story
We have always
looked for adventure.
Suite DNA was born from a simple, lifelong habit, a refusal to travel any way but extraordinarily.
It began with a backpack at seventeen, and it has never really stopped. What started as a hunger to see everything became, over twenty years, something far more refined: an intimate, first-hand knowledge of the world's finest places to stay, and the people who make them sing.
Founded in London in 2013, Suite DNA exists to share that knowledge. Not the brochure version, but the real one: which room, on which floor, in which season; the captain who knows the quiet bay; the maître d' who keeps the table; the guide who is genuinely the best, not merely available. We share our own experience and the insider intelligence of an extraordinary network of friends and experts on the ground.
Simply put, we travel so that you don't have to wonder whether you've chosen well. You have.
The result is travel arranged entirely around you. Sublime in the detail, seamless in the doing. It is, we think, the way the world should be seen.
The people
The team behind the journeys.
Katy McCann
Founder of Suite DNA and, before that, part of the founding team of the celebrated Mr & Mrs Smith Hotel Collection. Katy has personally visited over 2,000 hotels, villas and lodges, travelling seven months of every year, and today continues to discover new places all over the world.
Celine Saffray
An authority on five-star service, Celine has called the finest hotels in the world home, with senior roles at Maybourne Group, Dorchester Collection and Bulgari Hotels. She knows precisely what exceptional looks like, and accepts nothing less.