Dan O'Beirne — Founder, Magical Private Travel Spain, Portugal & Morocco Luxury Tours with Positive Local Impact — Since 2002, Local Secrets, American Precision

Dan and his agency have been in USA Today, PBS, Rick Steves, and Euro Business News. He assisted with Game of Thrones location planning in Spain and has consulted with Travel Channel and MTV. 

A teenager Dan worked in his father's law firm — running documents to other attorneys and once helping with intense trial preparation for the Fifth Circuit Court in New Orleans. He also grew up hearing tales about Europe and his father's family in Europe and his well-read mother's urges to follow your bliss and see the world before settling down. The attention to detail stuck. So did a curiosity about traveling and discovering beautiful, historic places, diverse people, food, and cultures beyond the courthouse — he found a career that demanded both. 

After attending LSU and working a demanding corporate job, Dan went south to Miami and worked on a leading cruise line for a year. Next he realized that fluency in Spanish would open doors. So he flew to South America to study Spanish, try to learn to Tango and travel. After a couple of weeks of tango classes he realized he had two left feet. So he doubled down on Spanish and viajes.

Later he worked and traveled widely — vineyards and castles across Western Europe, Morocco, and Asia — but when he reached Spain and Portugal, the curiosity became something deeper. So did a Spanish woman who would become his wife.

Dan is the founder of Magical Private Travel, an American-run luxury travel agency specializing in bespoke private journeys across Spain, Portugal, and Morocco since 2002 — with more than 15,000 travelers served, a commitment to positive local impact, and recognition from the Luxury Lifestyle Awards and the European Travel Awards.The agency is backed by a US LLC and operates from Madrid, Spain with team members and associates in Portugal and Morocco also.  

While big-box travel companies sell fifty or more countries from offices in New York or London, Dan's team brings something local agencies can't: American leadership with a Spanish, Portuguese, and Moroccan team on the ground — the best of both worlds, with two decades of trusted relationships across all three destinations.

His network across Spain, Portugal, and Morocco reads less like a vendor list and more like a life: Rioja and Douro winemakers, Basque and Lisbon chefs, Alentejo cork estate owners, Moroccan artisans, Seville flamenco guitarists, the owner of a purebred Andalusian stallion estate, and the family behind a medieval castle in Jaén.

An Irish-American expat who has called Europe home for more than twenty-five years and traveled across five continents, Dan lives with his Spanish wife and son between Spain and Portugal. He speaks fluent Spanish and still believes that when a journey is truly tailored around you and your favorite people, it creates the stories you'll still be talking and smiling about decades from now. Contact Dan today for complimentary consultation about your next, well deserved custom journey into the heart Of Spain or Portugal or Morocco or beyond, your way.