# Inaugural Best of the Best Ultimate Famil Wraps Up in Monaco After 11 Nights of Ultra Luxury Travel

> A group of seven Australian travel agents closed out an 11 night ultra luxury famil trip in Monaco, taking in the Hotel de Paris, Amazonico and a vintage car tour through Eze before heading home.

- Source: Monaco Day
- Canonical URL: https://monacoday.com/en/article/best-of-the-best-ultimate-famil-concludes-monaco
- Author: Monaco Day Staff
- Section: Society
- Published: 2026-10-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Tags: Luxury Travel, Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo SBM
- French edition: https://monacoday.com/article/best-of-the-best-ultimate-famil-concludes-monaco

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An inaugural Best of the Best Ultimate Famil trip wrapped up its 11 night run in Monaco, closing out a luxury travel agent familiarisation trip built around some of the biggest names in high end hospitality. The programme brought together The Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection, Taj Hotels, Inspired Luxury, COMO Hotels and Resorts, Anthony Knox and Associates, The Legian Seminyak and Uniworld as organising partners, with Anastasia Kotanidis of The Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection and Thushara Liyanarachchi of Taj Hotels hosting the group throughout.

Seven Australian travel agents took part in the trip, including Lionel Brown of SmartFlyer Australia, Lisa Maddox of Spencer Travel, Shelley McWhinney of Y Travel, Caroline Arthur of FBI Travel, Kylie Fidler of Jigsaw Travel, Khush Suntoke of Globetrotter and Jarred Green of Globe International Travel. The itinerary started in Australia before taking the group through Rome and aboard the Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection's Ilma, ahead of the Monaco leg that closed out the programme.

In Monaco, the agents stayed across Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo and Hotel Hermitage Monte Carlo, two of Monte Carlo SBM's flagship properties, with a dinner at Le Grill among the stops on the Monaco itinerary. The group also took in Amazonico restaurant and New Moods nightclub, a vintage car tour through the village of Eze, and time at the casino, giving the agents a direct look at the kind of experiences they would later be selling to their own clients.

The trip closed with a private helicopter transfer by Blade Helicopters to Nice Airport, bookending an itinerary built almost entirely around first hand experience rather than sales presentations. For the hotel and yacht brands involved, putting agents through the same hotels, restaurants and transfers their clients would use gives them a direct stake in how convincingly those experiences get sold once the agents are back behind their own desks.

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