A Private Journey for Single Adults

A different way to meet — one weekend at a time.

Aventerre hosts small, private journeys for single adults who'd rather share a long table than swipe a screen. Thoughtfully gathered company, beautiful settings, and unhurried time together. Romance is possible. Nothing is promised but good company.

Request an Invitation How It Works

What Aventerre Is

We didn't build another way to swipe. We built a reason to look up.

Aventerre brings together a small, carefully considered group of single adults, generally 30 and older, for a hosted weekend away. Dinners run long because no one is checking the time. Someone refills your glass before you notice it's empty. A stranger asks the second question, not just the first, and the conversation goes somewhere neither of you expected.

No algorithm decides who you sit next to. No itinerary is built around forced icebreakers. Just a beautiful place, a curated guest list, and enough time for something real to happen, however it happens.

How Aventerre Is Different

You've tried the apps. This is the alternative.

This isn't a place you scroll. It's a table you're invited to.

You meet in person, from the very first hello.

You're present in the room from the start, not guessing from a profile, a message thread, or an algorithm's guess at compatibility.

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Twelve guests. Never a hundred.

A small, hand-selected group spends days together, not a single crowded evening spent scanning the room.

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Nothing arranged. Nothing performed.

No one assigns you a match or evaluates your chemistry. You're simply given time, space, and good company — and left to it.

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Just time, well spent.

There's nothing to complete and no self to improve. Just a well-set table, a beautiful setting, and unhurried conversation.

How It Works

The path, from request to arrival.

A guest arriving at a private villa entryway, with a handwritten place card waiting on a console table

Request an Invitation

Tell us a little about yourself: who you are, and what you're hoping to find more of in your life.

Be Considered

We review every request personally. Each journey's guest list is curated by hand, for balance, character, and chemistry.

Receive Your Invitation

If it's a fit, you'll receive a confirmed place, a private itinerary, and a brief introduction to your fellow travelers.

Arrive, and Let the Weekend Unfold

No name tags. No forced icebreakers. Just good company, in a beautiful place, for as long as the evening lasts.

The Journeys

Beautiful places. Considered company.

Each Aventerre journey unfolds somewhere worth traveling for. Exact locations and dates are shared privately, with those who've received an invitation.

A quiet stone tower silhouetted at golden hour with birds overhead

Journey No. 01 — Autumn 2026

A stone-walled Mediterranean village on a coastal headland at dusk

Journey No. 02 — Winter 2026

A warm ochre lakeside villa surrounded by cypress and olive trees, with a palm and green water

Journey No. 03 — Spring 2027

Aventerre is currently accepting requests for our founding journeys. Spaces are limited and offered by invitation only.

Questions

A few things people ask before applying.

What does this cost, and what's included?

Each journey is priced individually depending on destination and length, generally in the range of $3,000–$6,000 per person for a multi-day journey. Every journey includes accommodations, meals, and hosted experiences, along with the time we spend personally curating each guest list. Exact pricing is confirmed directly with applicants who are invited to join.

What happens if I'm not selected?

Not every application will be right for a given journey, and that isn't a reflection of you. We keep applications on file and may follow up as future journeys take shape.

How many people are on each journey?

Journeys are intentionally small, generally between twelve and sixteen guests. Small enough that everyone shares a table, large enough that no one feels singled out.

Can I apply with a friend?

Yes. Mention it in your application and we'll do our best to consider you together, though each of you will still apply and be confirmed individually.

How do you keep this safe and considerate?

Every applicant is reviewed personally before an invitation is extended, and a host is present throughout the journey. Beyond that, we ask everyone to arrive with the same thing we look for in the room: good judgment and genuine respect for the people around them.

Is this a dating app?

No. There's no swiping, no matching, and no algorithm. Aventerre gathers a small, considered group of people for a shared weekend, curated so that everyone feels like a peer rather than an outlier: what happens between any two people is entirely up to them, not something we engineer.

What if I need to cancel?

Once you're confirmed for a journey, we'll walk you through cancellation and payment terms in full before you commit to anything.

Your Host

I kept watching friends delete the apps, redownload them, and get disappointed all over again. I built Aventerre on a simple belief: traveling together tests compatibility in a way no profile ever could, and nothing beats what comes out of it — love, or just real friendship.

— Shinnola, Founder & Host