Meet our Founder & Co-Host

Wenna Privé, founder of Eratō Retreats, a women’s travel company creating intimate cultural and wellness retreats.

Wenna Privé is British-French, and having grown up overseas as an expat, she has always been a seasoned traveller.

Before Eratō, she spent a decade running her own design studio, working with some of the world's most iconic brands in luxury hospitality, fashion and lifestyle including The Savoy London, Grosvenor House J.W. Marriott, Wild Hotel Mykonos, Hermès, Fortnum & Mason and Valldemossa Sanctuary in Mallorca. She has been featured by Forbes, Good Morning America, Travel & Leisure, and Rue Magazine for her work. This experience within the hospitality space further shaped the discerning eye for detail she now brings to the travel space.

The idea for Eratō came to Wenna without any plan for it to become a business. After experiencing burnout, she took a series of life-changing journeys across the Mediterranean. Slow travel became deeply healing, and in these places she felt more herself than she had in years.

From the French Riviera and Italy to Croatia and Greece, she started designing similar slow, fully immersive travel for friends, curated around the same pillars that Eratō is built on. What she noticed was simple: the women who joined her came back again and again for more suggestions on where to stay, how to experience a place, what to do and where to eat. That was the start of Eratō.

Over the years, Wenna has cultivated close relationships with the people who give each destination its character: beautiful privately owned homes, boutique hotels, local chefs, family-run restaurants, artisans, makers, guides and boat captains. These trusted partnerships allow Eratō guests to experience each place through the people who know it best, with authentic experiences.

After a lifetime spent between countries she had not chosen for herself growing up, Wenna fell head over heels for England, choosing at last to put down roots, a short hop from the art capitals of Europe and the Mediterranean coastlines she loves. Now based in London, she has come to know it not as a passing traveller, but as a place she is proud to call home, and sharing its corners and traditions has become one of her greatest pleasures.

Today, Eratō is Wenna's invitation to bring meaning and romance back into how we live, and how we travel.

“Condé Nast Traveller meets old-world romance. Erato brings together sumptuous escapes, storied landscapes, exceptional food, art, culture and creativity, peppered with wellness and candlelit connection, inspired by a love of travel, a true delight and worth every penny.”

— Vogue Contributor