WHO IS KIRSTY AND CO
KIRSTY MITCHELL
FOUNDER | LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR
MALDIVES SPECIALIST
Kirsty calls Sydney's Northern Beaches home — and when she's not there, she's probably somewhere equally beautiful. As a luxury travel advisor, she's built a career doing the thing she loves most: finding the world's most special places and matching them to the right people.
She works across all kinds of luxury travel, all across the globe — beach escapes, stylish city stays, long-haul adventures, luxury surf travel, powder-chasing ski escapes, and those quietly brilliant off-grid finds that most people never stumble across. Whatever you're dreaming of, she'll shape it around you. Your style. Your pace. Your kind of perfect.
She's also a little obsessed with genuinely beautiful hotels — the kind where everything just feels right from the moment you walk in. Great design, thoughtful details, that hard-to-define quality that makes a place truly special. Finding them, staying in them, and matching them to the right people is, honestly, one of her favourite things.
The Maldives is where her heart lives, though. She's spent years getting to know it — staying at, exploring, and falling a little in love with the resorts that make it so magical. That firsthand experience means she knows not just what looks beautiful on paper, but what actually delivers. Clients come to her overwhelmed by options and leave with a trip that feels made for them. Because it is.
More than anything, she cares about the things that actually matter. Not star ratings or glossy brochures, but the warmth of a welcome, the ease of everything just working, and those little touches you didn't know you needed until they arrived.
Warm, down-to-earth, and always up for a travel chat — working with Kirsty feels less like hiring an expert and more like having a brilliant, well-travelled friend in your corner.
STUART WILLIAMSON
RESIDENT SURF GURU
A self confessed ‘Travel Experiencer’, AKA Professional Tourist, Stuart’s background in architecture and design gives him a keen understanding of refined luxury and an appreciation for the finer detail in the hotel space.
Stuart’s main focus within the Kirsty and Co Travel family is building relationships with our trade partners, not only on the islands but around the world.
As our resident surf guru, he can be regularly found surfing the breaks in the Maldives. With knowledge of the different breaks throughout the atolls, he can steer you in the right direction for which waves are the best for your ability level - natural or goofy!
‘Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown’.
- Anthony Bourdain