Where was ‘People We Meet on Vacation’ filmed? Behind the scenes of the Netflix rom-com winning hearts

On Location peels again the curtain on some of your favorite movies, tv reveals, and extra. This time, we check out People We Meet on Vacation.

Author Emily Henry’s romantic novels have turn out to be mainstays in the BookTok group and past in the previous couple of years. Her tales really feel like 90s rom-coms: relatable feminine principal characters, dashing love pursuits, and aspirational backdrops. So it was solely a matter of time earlier than one of her novels was tailored for the display. On 9 January 2026, a feature-length movie starring Emily Bader and Tom Blyth was lastly launched.

Tom Blyth as Alex and Emily Bader as Poppy in People We Meet on Vacation
Michele Ok. Short/Netflix © 2026

Netflix

In People We Meet on Vacation, we observe journey author Poppy Wright and Alex Nilsen as they navigate their friends-to-lovers trajectory over the years. The plot properties in on their annual week’s summer time vacation all through their friendship, revealing their historical past to the viewer by way of a collection of flashbacks that happen throughout the world, with scenes set all over the place from Ohio to Tuscany. But the place, precisely, did Netflix movie the adaptation?

Where was People We Meet on Vacation filmed?

Scenes set in Squamish, Canada, had been really filmed in Northern Spain

Netflix

Spain

At the starting of the movie, we be taught that Alex’s brother, David, is getting married in Spain, and that each Poppy and Alex will attend, bringing the pair collectively in the movie’s present-day timeline. It’s maybe unsurprising, then, that the forged and crew headed to Spain to movie. It would possibly shock you extra, nevertheless, to be taught that northeastern Spain additionally stood in as Squamish, Canada, the place our principal characters head for a tenting journey in a flashback.

A Spanish panorama additionally stood in for Tuscany, one other flashback location which Alex and Poppy go to with their companions at the time. The Catalonian village of Llagostera takes a starring position in these scenes. The scene, which mimics the e-book cowl, the place Poppy and Alex recline on sunloungers, in the meantime, was shot close to Casa de Santa Clotilde, the place the marriage ceremony is going down, at Sa Boadella Beach.