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I was extremely skeptical of boundless before joining but we decided to give it a shot.

I was very glad we did. Montenegro was extraordinary. It’s so easy to road trip in the region. It’s very family friendly as well. But more than anything, the management team really made the program.

The Marko’s (two of them) who ran it were not only amazing at making sure our family had zero trouble with language barriers or organizational issues but they also brought such an amazing degree of local knowledge. Some of excursions were during school hours with just adults and some were with the whole family. Every single one was special. These guys were absolute pros. We really experienced Montenegro in a way that would have been impossible otherwise. They truly made us feel like family during our 3 month program.

I also have tons of respect for the educational team. Fiona, Maria and Christina made sure our daughter felt right at home in her classroom. They kept a tight ship and made sure the kids stayed in line but still felt safe learning and exploring.

In retrospect we probably wouldn’t have considered Montenegro but it just so happened that it was the only program that worked for us. I am very grateful and will definitely continue with boundless.

My only complaint is that the cohort could be lengthened. Right as families are getting comfortable in their space it’s time to start thinking about the next thing. I realize there are problems with Schengen zone visas and that dictates the duration of the cohort to some extent but I think a four month program would really be ideal if it could be worked out to give more stability for everyone involved.

Our experience with Boundless Life across both the Kotor and Estepona locations has been nothing short of transformative. Transitioning to a nomadic lifestyle can be daunting, but Boundless provides a turnkey ecosystem that makes "living like a local" feel effortless from day one.

The Locations
Kotor, Montenegro: The setting is cinematic. Living within reach of the Bay of Kotor offered a perfect blend of history and serenity. The community hub here felt intimate, and the local team went above and beyond to integrate us into the Montenegrin culture.

Estepona, Spain: A beautiful shift to the Costa del Sol. The proximity to the beach provided a classic Mediterranean lifestyle and made our Californian family feel right at home.

The Boundless Experience
One of the standout features of Boundless is the Education Center. Having a consistent, high-quality learning environment for the children allowed them to make friends immediately and stay engaged with a forward-thinking curriculum. It also gave us the "deep work" time we needed in the coworking space and family lounge, knowing they were thriving.

The Community
Beyond the logistics, it’s the people that make this program special. We’ve built a global network of like-minded families. The organized activities—from local hikes to community dinners—are thoughtful and genuine, avoiding the typical "tourist" feel.

Final Verdict
If you are looking for a way to explore the world without sacrificing professional productivity or family stability, Boundless Life is the gold standard. We arrived as guests and now feel like part of a global family. We cannot recommend these cohorts highly enough!

Specific memories: While in Kotor, you have to hike the ladder and meet the owner of the Cheese Shop; be ready to sample his local moonshine (rakija) and meet his goats.

The staff: While we love the entire staff at both Kotor and Estepona, the Marko's (Lil & Big) in Montenegro will be life-long friends.

The "Why": We wanted a way to travel and work without home-schooling the kids. The cultural experiences and education the kids are getting is top notch. So much, that we added Bali to the agenda while on our first cohort in Kotor; we'll be in Bali for July-August (after Estepona) and hopefully beyond!

Our family is on our third cohort (Italy, Montenegro, and Greece) - and we are absolutely in love with this program, the experience, to teams and the energy that Boundless brings to everything they do. We love it so much that we are continuing on with Boundless for another year!

Boundless gave us the opportunity to try world schooling for the first time, and we have now done 5 cohorts. We love many things about the lifestyle and the community. Unfortunately, where Boundless falls short is really showing after this many cohorts - the education. Living a world-schooling lifestyle, our kids have had the opportunity to learn so much about the world around them, and we've seen them grow in many positive ways. But unfortunately, they are falling short academically in fundamentals like reading proficiency, math, and science, and as they get older, it's becoming increasingly apparent.

Aside from education, I'd like to see Boundless really invest in more comfortable homes! Many of the Boundless apartments feel like dorm living with Ikea furniture and accessories, and for families who are used to a different lifestyle, offering nicer furnishings can help bridge the gap. Invest heavily in comfortable bedding, more comfortable and family-friendly furniture, and make the homes feel more comfortable by adding art to the walls and rugs. These homes should help kids feel comfortable after a long day of exploring a new culture. Think about what would delight families and add those to the homes. Every cohort I have been in, there have been complaints about uncomfortable beds, pillows, sheets, towels, etc. Those should be the easy things. The size of the apartment doesn't matter if you make it beautiful and comfortable.

We've seen Boundless come a very long way over the years and appreciate how they continue to listen to feedback and make adjustments. We very much value the opportunity it has provided our family and will continue to champion the organization and the concept, even if it no longer works for us.

I truly only have great things to share about the Boundless experience. I first came across the program when I was on the search for world schooling opportunities - that was years ago when they first started and now we have already experienced four different cohorts. We started off with a summer cohort in Portugal, followed by Greece, Indonesia and most recently Spain. As a school psychologist, I know too well that the traditional schools do not provide our children with the experiences that parents hope for. Boundless helped to bridge that gap and gifted our three children the highest form of real life experiences outside of their comfort zones which is proven time and again to be the key to future success and happiness. Boundless also gifted us parents with the highest form of self-care, being a built in like-minded community. I truly am so grateful for all the families that I have connected with and for the once in a lifetime experiences that we reminisce on often.

We absolutely loved out Boundless Experience in Montenegro! The location is absolutely stunning, the school as beautiful and the teachers were excellent. Our daughter made best friends and learned a lot in the 3 months. We really enjoyed all the field trips and community activities. The co-working space was great and the other families were lovely to connect with. What a gift this opportunity is to give to our kids and ourselves as parents. We can't wait for out next cohort!

The Boundless Staff was incredible, the Boundless Community was life-changing, and life in Estepona was truly magical. Just what our family needed to restore our faith in humanity and begin again.

We had a truly special 3 month Boundless cohort in Sintra, Portugal in September. We were new to Boundless Life and our experience exceeded our expectations. The community and school teams in Sintra worked well together to support the group in forming meaningful community. The education team were wonderful. Our kids skipped happily into school and were excited by their learning. We were inspired and touched by the whole experience and have booked another 3 cohorts since!

Our time in the Sintra Portugal cohort was transformative for us and our 5yo son. We enjoyed every minute from the amazing school and teachers to the beautiful surroundings. We liked seeing our son grow exponentially over just 3 months in his academics, social skills, and curiosity. Something that lacked from all of his US schools. The families were amazing and the community that boundless has set up made the experience very unique. We loved the school and the teachers and alongside the amazing community staff made the cohort unforgettable.

We had an amazing experience at boundless!
Great people, special atmosphere, and a lot of time to connect as a family.

Amazing team, place, and group of people!!

Our family has done 4 cohorts with Boundless. We did Sintra, Bali, Syros, and La Barrah. We are signed up for at least two more. Boundless provides a unique and amazing way to live life. Boundless has been great for our family and has allowed us to work on our startup while seeing more of the work while having quality time with our two youngest kids and meeting amazing families along the way. We are grateful that Boundless provides the services they do and while no company is perfect and the boundless experience isn't for everyone its been magical for our family.

We just finished a Boundless cohort in Sintra for our 4- and 6-year-old, and we absolutely loved the experience. The teachers and the entire Boundless team were phenomenal—thoughtful, engaging, and genuinely invested in the children. We saw so much growth in both of our daughters during our time there, not just academically, but socially and emotionally as well.

One of the most unexpected and meaningful parts of the experience was the community. We made amazing, lifelong friends with the other parents, which added so much richness to our time in Portugal and made the experience feel truly special and supportive.

Being based in Sintra also gave our family the opportunity to explore Portugal together, creating memories we’ll cherish forever. Boundless strikes a beautiful balance between learning, exploration, and community.

I would highly recommend Boundless to any family considering a cohort, and we’re already looking forward to joining another one soon.

We have been traveling full-time for years and have completed five three-month cohorts with Boundless Life, with three more on the calendar. We continue to love the program and the life it's allowed us to have abroad. Our kids have loved their teachers and the school (except Italy, where the ECD kept switching my 5-year-old from class to class, causing her a lot of emotional distress). We've made amazing friends with whom we've traveled from location to location and met up around the globe. The cultural experience of living abroad —meeting locals, learning about local customs through classes and experiences—is unparalleled.

The biggest con to the company itself is that they are constantly raising prices while rarely improving or adding to the experience. The second con is that the education isn't nearly as great as they market it as. It's the only school my kids have had, and they are young, but still behind their peers of the same age. I would expect they would be further ahead in skills like reading and phonics, since class sizes with Boundless are generally small. (They've never had a class larger than 10 kids and always have 2-3 teachers) That is a disappointment, but since our kids are so young, it's not a dealbreaker for us. We've listened to parents with older kids complain about this at every single location.

Overall, we started with Boundless Life in 2023 and, to their credit, the company has grown and changed in many good ways over the years. Our first experience in Portugal wasn't great, but we gave a lot of feedback and watched as they adapted and improved. Every Boundless location is quite different, just as every country and culture we experience is different. Our favorites, in order, are easily: Greece, Uruguay, Montenegro, Portugal, and Italy. (HIGHLY recommend both Uruguay and Montenegro as they exceed expectations in every way, and the staff at those two locations in particular have been our favorite teams!)

Overall, Boundless is great; they just have lots of room for improvement. The community is amazing - lots of like-minded people being brought together to educate their kids abroad. We did two 3-month cohorts, Sintra Fall 2024 and Syros Spring 2025.

In terms of the Boundless staff, it was night and day between the two. We didn't start in Sintra with one Boundless staff member we ended with (apart from the school - but the GM, operations, activities, etc.) so the program itself was disorganized but we still loved the community. The Syros staff was AMAZING. They are so dialed in. Tons of amazing activities were planned.

The school/education piece is also tricky. In Sintra we had small class sizes, so having different learners across age ranges didn't matter so much. In Syros, with bigger class sizes, it was more of a problem. Our kindergartener was in a class with second graders reading Harry Potter, and he didn't read at all yet. We felt the school couldn't adapt to the different levels.

Also the housing - there are so many unfair aspects to who can book outside Boundless, who can't, and the policies are always changing. Plus the overall costs keep going up and up for the entire program.

That all said, we would hands down do Boundless again because we believe it what they are working on, and all start-ups have bumps along the way. The community we built and the friends we made along the way make it worthwhile.

We participated in two different cohorts and while there were certainly pros and cons of the program, overall our family had a great experience with Boundless Life. The built-in community that Boundless provides is unmatched and is truly what sets them apart. The educational environment didn't quite meet our standards, however, and we also felt that the extracurriculars largely separated the adults from the children (not quite something we anticipated). We also found the program to be quite expensive considering how much it would have cost if coordinating your own lodging and coworking space.

Having followed the program since our experience, there seems to have been a significant investment in social media influencers advertising for them now- and Boundless might be falling victim to inaccurately portraying of a utopian society (but this isn't unique to Boundless unfortunately).

Yes Boundless is great and I'd recommend it to anyone who is new to world travel and wants an easy button to have everything planned and organized for them. But otherwise, I think there are still strides to be made to their approach to education, as well as considerations on the long-term impact they're leaving on the communities in which they are now based.

We loved the community that we have formed on every cohort. The school is incredible for the kids. They learn a bunch and seem more confident in themselves every time. Overall, it is the people and the community that you form that makes Boundless an incredible experience.

The greek team was amazing but we did not like the overall global strategy team. The idea is wonderful and the community is great but the princing on the housing was rediculous and the strategy not fair at all. They told us we could not book separately because those spaces were taken for the first bookers and then people that booked after us could do it. For the price we paid all the booking service and re arrival experience was far from ideal.

My family and I joined the Boundless Life Sintra cohort a couple of years ago, and it was truly one of the most magical experiences we’ve ever had. The town itself feels straight out of a storybook, and Boundless did an incredible job curating activities for both the adults and the kids. Our children loved the school and the friends they made.

After traveling solo for so long, having a built-in community was a gift. We instantly connected with other families, shared adventures, and felt supported in a way that made the whole experience richer and more meaningful.

Boundless Life exceeded our expectations, and we still talk about our time in Sintra with so much gratitude. Highly recommend to any family considering the program!

Amazing experience, beautiful community, world class services, education that speaks to the child and his/her needs as a being.
We spent 3 cohorts with boundless and we can’t wait to get back next year.
I highly recommend it to every family. To at least experience it once.
Ofcourse traveling and relocating come with challenges depending on how used to you are to travel often.