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The ultimate James Bond cinematic holiday: for US$74,000, the 12-night journey runs through film locations across Europe, seen in Spectre and more, with exclusive access and production team hang-outs

Daniel Craig reprises his role as James Bond in Spectre – and now guests can visit the film’s locations with luxury travel outfit Black Tomato. Photo: TNS

What would a dream holiday for a James Bond super fan look like?

Skiing down the mountain location of the iconic chase scene in Spectre? Sipping ice-cold martinis (shaken, not stirred, obviously) in London?
James Bond is a fictional British Secret Service agent created by writer Ian Fleming. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

How about a private training session with Daniel Craig’s stunt double, or seeing the sights of Monaco’s Côte d’Azur on a yacht with actress Carole Ashby (Octopussy, A View to Kill)? Driving an Aston Martin with a Bond special-effects supervisor?

 

That cinematic dream holiday can actually be purchased thanks to luxury travel outfit Black Tomato’s new partnership with 007 production company Eon.

Here’s everything you need to know …

The ultimate James Bond holiday has only limited spots

The Assignment is the name of the 12-night journey where guests get to jet around James Bond locations in Europe. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram
Only 60 spots are available. Five-night trips begin at US$18,523 per person. Or for US$74,438, you can take a 12-night journey called The Assignment, glamorously jetting around Bond locations in Europe, including London, Paris, Monaco, Lake Como, Venice and the Austrian Alps. Around 30 per cent of spaces have been sold already, according to Black Tomato.

The trip is the culmination of a years-long effort in close collaboration with Eon, involving everyone from actors, stunt people, producers, location coordinators and Bond archivists, Black Tomato co-founder Tom Marchant said.

The Assignment itinerary locations include London, Paris, Monaco, all the way to the Austrian alps. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

Black Tomato obsessed over every detail, down to what Bond eats (Beluga caviar, stone crab, steak Diane) and drinks (martinis, but also a lot of Bollinger champagne) to create bespoke dinners.

Whatever James Bond did, you can do too. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

Exclusive access

Venice is one of the locations on the trip. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

The company even set up access to filming locations such as private entry to the ski area made famous in Spectre, and arranged for interactions with actors, such as a game of poker with Andreas Daniel who played the dealer in that high-stakes game in Casino Royale.

Marchant has a track record of bringing beloved literary and cinematic franchises to life through travel; Eon approached him for this project, he says, because of his company’s success recreating the journeys of Agatha Christie. “What we’re doing is bringing proximity to 007 in a way that hasn’t been done before,” Marchant says.

Guests start their trips in London and hear stories from location manager Ali James while being chauffeured around the city. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

The first trips start in London and can include a chase down the Thames in the original Superhawk 34 from The World is Not Enough. Customers can be chauffeured in a Range Rover or Aston Martin with location manger Ali James, who can point out filming locations and share her stories from sets, capped off with a martini from Duke’s Bar in Mayfair.

It’s only fitting that guests will be driving around in James Bond’s favourite car, an Aston Martin. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

Hang out with production team members

A visit to the champagne maker Bollinger is also on the itinerary. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

At a launch party for the experiences at the Corinthia London, we got a small taste of that adventure for ourselves. We sat in a tricked-out Aston Martin, complete with spy gear-like ejector buttons, before speaking to Chris Corbould, the special-effects supervisor on eight Bond films.

He demonstrated how he sunk a Venetian building in Casino Royale. It involved scale miniature models, huge tanks of water and rigs in Pinewood studios. He says Eva Green was a pro in her watery death scene and had nothing but effusive praise for Daniel Craig.

Corbould can join on Aston Martin driving experiences to talk blockbuster special effects or on a helicopter tour above the Alpine resorts filmed in Spectre. Less adventurous guests can meet him for lunch at the restaurant ice Q in Austria that served as Madeleine Swann’s (Lea Seydoux) clinic in the film.

James Bond fans will be delighted to see the film locations brought to life. Photo: @blacktomatotravel/Instagram

It’s the closest fans can get to the secret agent without heading to a film set or joining up to his majesty’s secret service – thankfully without a cast of Bond villains hot on their heels.

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  • James Bond super fans, rejoice! Luxury travel outfit Black Tomato and 007 production company Eon’s new offering takes travellers across film locations in London, Paris, Monaco, Lake Como, Venice and the Alps
  • Book a private training session with Daniel Craig’s stunt double, take a tour in an Aston Martin, or even chat Casino Royale with its special effects supervisor