Wanderlust Swingers
A lifestyle media and travel brand — podcast, blog, and event organizer — running themed lifestyle vacations and takeovers globally. Wanderlust Swingers maintains one of the most-cited annual calendars of major lifestyle events worldwide, used by many couples to plan their travel year.
Wanderlust Swingers is a long-running lifestyle media and travel brand built around a podcast, blog, and event calendar. The show is hosted by an Australian couple who go publicly by Cate and Darrell; it began in 2015 under the original name Swinging Downunder and was rebranded as Wanderlust Swingers as the focus shifted from local Australian content to global lifestyle travel (Wanderlust Swingers). The format mixes interview episodes, personal storytelling about the couple's own non-monogamous life, and reporting from major lifestyle events.
The brand's most-cited single resource is its annual events calendar, which aggregates major lifestyle takeovers, cruises, festivals, and resort weeks happening worldwide. The list is widely used by lifestyle couples to plan their travel year because it is one of the few places where independent and competing event organizers' calendars sit side by side in a single view. Wanderlust Swingers also co-hosts events of its own, including resort takeovers in France, North America, and the Caribbean, often in partnership with other established lifestyle media brands.
The editorial voice is deliberately community-facing: the hosts present themselves as participants, not journalists, and the show leans into long-form conversations rather than tight interview formats. That makes it useful as a primary-source window into how the international lifestyle community talks about itself, and less useful as neutral research material. As with any media brand operating in a niche industry, listeners weigh the content alongside coverage from other independent sources.
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Listen: Wanderlust Swingers podcasts on Swing.com
Find events: Browse upcoming wanderlust swingers events
Related Terms
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- Takeover — A lifestyle event held at a hotel or resort that has been booked exclusively (or nearly so) for swingers for a set number of days. Hotel takeovers blend conference, party, and play in a single property.