The Summer Trips Vogue Editors Are Booking For 2026
From under-the-radar Greek islands to beachy New England retreats, here are the trips that the Vogue team has booked this summer.
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Summer 2026 is, by pure calendar luck, longer than usual — Memorial Day landed early, Labor Day is running late, and according to Vogue, their editors are treating every extra day like a mandate to book flights. From the Greek islands to Colombia's walled city, the collective itinerary reads less like an office travel memo and more like an argument for resigning and becoming a full-time wanderer.
The Europe contingent is stacked. Lifestyle shopping editor Elly Leavitt is island-hopping to Amorgos — a rugged, quieter Cycladic escape famous for its clifftop chora and its cameo in Le Grand Bleu — alongside a return visit to the butterfly-shaped Astypalaia, where apparently the meatballs alone justify the ferry ride. Fashion writer Hannah Jackson is chasing Mediterranean sun on the Côte d'Azur before a wedding in Saint-Jeannet, with Renoir, Chagall, and Matisse museums serving as noble justification. Senior fashion and style writer Christian Allaire is finally making his Portugal pilgrimage — first Lisbon, staying in a converted 18th-century palace that doubles as a contemporary art museum, then on to Madeira for vineyard tours and an infinity pool with Atlantic views. Parties editor Freya Drohan, predictably, has the most ambitious itinerary: Mallorca for a visit to designer Matthew Williamson's concept store, then crashing her parents' trip to Puglia, with potential detours to Lake Como's Grand Hotel Tremezzo or Palazzo Pucci in Florence.
Closer to Home, No Less Intentional
Stateside, the picks are equally considered. Beauty editor-at-large Arden Fanning-Andrews is heading to Golden Door Spa in San Marcos, California — ranked among Vogue's 100 best spas globally — for a co-ed week of hiking, archery, ink painting, and, crucially, a near-total digital detox. Culture writer Emma Specter is celebrating her 33rd birthday in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with lobster, sunset ice cream cones, and a baby's first ocean dip on the agenda. Associate production manager Kylee McGuigan lucked into a relationship that comes with a boat and a house on Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes — the correct kind of situationship. And Teen Vogue's P. Claire Dodson is heading to Cartagena, Colombia with 17 friends for a 30th birthday trip involving beach clubs, boat rides, and as much fresh fruit as physically possible.
What the full list signals isn't just wanderlust — it's a collective recalibration. Whether it's Molly Barstein choosing the quieter, off-peak side of St. Barths in June or Abby Sjoberg making a deliberate first domestic trip to Harbor Springs, Michigan in honor of America's 250th anniversary, there's a theme: these aren't trips built around being seen. They're built around actually being somewhere.
The best summer travel plans aren't the most impressive ones — they're the ones you actually show up for.
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