Sweat Vacay

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SWEAT VACAY

• THE MISSION: We are bringing group-style workouts with local flavor to the world's most beautiful vacation destinations, launching May 17th in Mykonos, Greece.
• THE PROBLEM: People want to work out, even while on vacation… no matter where they’re vacationing. When we went to Mykonos, there were no regularly scheduled, easy-to-book fitness classes on the whole island… Crazy, right? Sweat Vacay is filling that hole in Mykonos.
• MARKET SIZE: There are 340,000 wellness-minded travelers (of the 2 million total travelers) visiting Mykonos during their 6 month tourist season.
• THE ANSWER: We're hosting 4 classes a day at 3 beautiful local businesses - SantAnna (beach club), Cafe Manto (a garden cafe), Salty Houses (a boutique hotel)
• THE FUNDS: Our raise will go toward our on-island incidentals and unforeseen start-up expenses. Ahhhh... start-up life. 
• OUR TEAM: A big part of our mission of "workouts with local flavor" is hiring local talent. Our team is us (co-founders Lauren Demarest + Veronica Kennedy) and our awesome Greek yoga, cycling, bootcamp, barre, and pilates instructors. 

OUR FEMALE FOUNDERS STORY:

We’ve been besties for 20 years now. We were both born and raised on the sandy Gulf Coast of Naples, Florida and met at Naples High School. We moved to NYC separately, but have both lived in the city 8 years now. We always knew we would be business owners. We just had no idea it would be together… and that our business suits would be more like bathing suits #BlazerLife4Eva 

We came up with the idea for Sweat Vacay about a year and a half ago while on vacation in Greece. We love working out and thought it might be nice to pick up a beach yoga class to break up all the lazy, local-food-induced-food-coma sun snoozing. And it was impossible. Few options. No regularly-scheduled classes. Nothing easy to book online. This was an obvious hole in the fitness space on this tourist-heavy island. This was something we could fix. 

Now we own an American and a Greek company. We have assembled a Greek and an American legal team of business attorneys, accountants, tax lawyers, and financial advisors. We have a great boutique fitness coach that we love who is coming to us all the way from Jakarta. Our visas have been approved. The insurance has been purchased. The spin bikes are being customized. And the press releases come out soon. Woo hoo!

We hired amazing Greek trainers. Our local team will teach 4 one-off classes a day, 7 days a week. We offer poolside cycling, beach and garden yoga, bootcamp, mat pilates, and barre classes. All outside. At the hottest beach club on the island – SantAnna. And in a walled garden in the heart of Mykonos Town – Cine Manto. It’s named after a local Female heroine. #GirlPower And its also an outdoor movie theater at night. How cool is that!?

Our mission is “Workouts With Local Flavor”. So we want to show tourists in the best and most beautiful parts about where they have chosen to vacation through the lens of exercise. We work with local businesses, restauranteurs, hoteliers, concierges, artists + artisans and tour guides, and encourage our class-goers to feel like insiders by trying traditional local flavors, shopping for local treasures, and taking in insane local sunsets. Plus every Sweat Vacay class-goer scores our Sweat Vacay Insider’s Guide to the island.

Thank you so much for supporting our dream! Your contributions are a big help. If you are interested in becoming an investor of $10k or more, please reach out to us via the form on our website.

best,

Lauren + Veronica

P.S. If you wanna see Vicky's cute stuff or check out more about our awesome luxe bikes ;)