Thinkers Summer Trip 2025
11-19 June 2025

Aruba

Trip is now open! - Limited to 20 people - Details and sign up below-

Due to the overwhelming interest in these trips, we are opening our waiting list for soft RSVP’s. We are limiting the trip to 24 people max this year. As always, Thinkers organizers, Patreon members and their guests will have first priority and then we will open to others on the waiting list.

Confirmed Guest Info

The Caribbean calls, so we must go (again)…

We’re doing it again. It’s time for our seventh annual Thinkers Summer Trip to another dream destination with friendly Thinkers from across all our regions!

This time we’re headed back to the Caribbean to explore the small tropical island of Aruba!

Dates: 11-19 June 2025
Price per person (flights are not included):
- Thinkers Organizers & Guests: $1600
- Patreon Members & Guests: $1800 (must be a current pateron as of 1 December 2024)
- Normal Members: $2000

We have booked an amazing luxury villa that will fit all 24 of our guests this year under one roof. This is a stunning place, a short drive to the beach, as well as many local attractions.

What’s Included in Your Payment:

Lodging for 8 nights in an amazing luxury villa in Aruba (Noord) (Double beds for couples, single or double beds / shared rooms for singles)
Food and drinks stocked in the villa all week (Ian will go grocery shopping for you)
This will include breakfast foods, snacks, bottled water, alcohol, beer, wine and soft drinks
Catered welcome dinner at our villa from a local chef, planned either the first night on the island
Thinkers’ famous “boat day” where we rent a yacht (or two), includes transportation to/from boat as well as food and drink
Surprise event in addition to the above

What’s Not Included:

Your flights to/from the destination are not included
Rental cars (suggested) for your stay (suggest splitting between 3-4 people to save costs)
Outings beyond what is listed above

What makes these trips special are not only the locations we visit, but the people we include. The attendees of these trips are primarily organizers, long-term Thinkers and Patron subscribers from across our group. These experiences tend to be not only fun, but rewarding and sometimes life-changing in synergistic ways.

Click the link below, fill out the survey, and hopefully we’ll see you in paradise!

If interested and you wish to attend, please join the waitlist by clicking below!

I'm Interested - Sign Me Up!

Here are some photos of what’s in store in aruba:

Meet the Organizers:

Chris Gerritz and Ian Perry have been organizing Thinkers trips since 2016. Together they have taken T&D members to countries all over the world, and have always kept them fun, engaging, welcoming, open and truly transformational. Both military veterans (Chris was a pilot & Ian a drill instructor), their level-headedness, attention to detail and calm demeanors make them the perfect pair to herd a villa full of drunk humans through an amazing week in a foreign country!

Events have been organized in the following cities & countries to date:

San Antonio, USA / Austin, USA / Stuttgart, Germany / Zermatt, Switzerland / Prague, Czech Republic / Amsterdam, Netherlands / Pituffik, Greenland / Portland, USA / Paris, France / Brela, Croatia / Mostar, Bosnia / Ibiza, Spain / Moab, USA / Cartagena, Colombia