About

The O Circle

The story, the people, and the team behind every journey — and why we started building circles of women who travel differently.

What Is

The O Circle

The O Circle is the exclusive women's group travel wing of Aristo.me, an established luxury travel company with 15 years of experience in curated individual journeys. It brings together small, carefully matched groups of women for intimate, fully curated travel experiences — backed by the relationships, expertise, and operational excellence of a trusted luxury travel brand.

Some trips you plan. Some trips find you. The O Circle is for women who are ready for the kind of travel that does both — a journey carefully designed for you, shared with women who feel like they've known you forever.

We started with a simple belief: women travel differently when they feel truly safe, truly seen, and truly free. Not worrying about the next transfer. Not navigating alone. Not settling for a standard group tour. Just being present — in a beautiful place, with good company, and not a single detail left to chance.

“The O is the circle — the oldest symbol of belonging. No beginning, no end. Just women, together, going somewhere wonderful.”

Two women at a doorway in Bali
Our Story

Why The O Circle

Our team has spent countless hours planning trips, traveling, and experiencing new cultures. Our travel expertise and our passion to build a community of travel girls is what led us to start The O Circle. We love that traveling can create life-long friendships through experiences you'll never forget.

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Your Hosts

Meet Your Hosts

Shweta Mandlekar

Shweta Mandlekar

Co-Host, The O Circle

A travel professional with 14+ years of curating luxury journeys and discovering beautiful places, that you'll still be talking about five years later.

Oh and not to forget! I also run a luxury resort spread across 20 acres in India and a sustainable home furnishings online store.

I'm bringing all that experience, curiosity, and love for the finer things in travel to The O Circle, along with Richa.

Richa Satpute

Richa Satpute

Co-Host, The O Circle

A storyteller, marketer and a firm believer that the best journeys are the ones that slightly rearrange your personality (in a good way).

After years of marketing for businesses and raising a daughter, I've learned that travel should be for the stories and the unexpected turns — and those "how did we even end up here?" moments that Google Maps refuses to take responsibility for.

Behind The Scenes

Team Behind The O Circle

On every O Circle journey, your host travels with you. But she never travels alone. Behind her stands the entire team of Aristo.me, bringing more than 15 years of luxury travel expertise to your journey. Flights, visas, transfers, reservations, and every detail in between — handled long before you pack your bags. And while you're on tour, the team works quietly in the background. A missed connection, a special request, an unexpected change of plans: one call, and it's sorted, wherever in the world you are.

You'll rarely see them. But you'll feel them in every seamless moment.

“Your host holds the circle. The Aristo.me team holds everything else.”

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Ready to find your circle?

Explore our current curated journeys — small group, fully hosted, nothing left to chance.

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