As a Travel Advisor, I am not a booking agent, but a full service advisor and designer of customized travel plans and itineraries. I research, coordinate, and advise on complex leisure trips and journeys and use my extensive experience to make sure my clients have the best travel experiences from start to finish. My background in the arts & humanities, language studies, extensive college-level teaching, art museum and gallery tour leading, over 2 decades of personal travel planning experience, and 4+ years of professional industry history enable me to provide quality travel advising services.
In-destination Coordination
I work extensively with industry destination management partners of the highest quality. These inbound tourism companies operate with local government support to ensure that all of your on-the-ground services, including transportation, tours, and hotel reservations, proceed smoothly. You will always have a local source of contact/assistance that is in the same time zone or even the same city as your itinerary, rather than an ocean away.
Private Touring
No matter your interest or special request, I can arrange any requested activity or tour to be done with private guides. Often, private or after-hours viewings at many sites and galleries can even be arranged. The value of having a private guide to completely customize your day tour cannot be overstated!
Special Local Experiences
Whether visiting a local family for tea or a home cooked meal, or speaking to a nomadic desert community about their lifestyles, working with travel advisors like myself enables you to have extremely unique and memorable experiences that are often impossible to have otherwise.
Ground Transportation
Arranging private drivers, whether between airports and accommodation, from city to city, or even across country borders, if you prefer it over flying or taking public transit such as trains, it can be done.
Destination Advice
Are you unsure about where to go, or about how to arrange your itinerary and get from place to place? Let me do the geographical and logistical work for you! Tell me your interests, travel styles, and what you want to do, and I can tell you where I think you’d enjoy visiting. If you want some off-the-beaten path recommendations, I have plenty of those as well. And if you’re visiting a city for a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time and need some ideas for new and unique things to do and see, I’ve got those too!
Excursions, tours, restaurants, shopping, shows…
My services are a one stop shop for all elements of your trip, from researching, planning, and booking any and all excursions and tours (whether private or group), restaurant recommendations or reservations, shopping recs, show or concert tickets, etc. I’ll figure out the schedule and the logistics, you just sit back and relax.
The Best Hotels
With so much travel experience under my belt, and with the combined knowledge of my colleagues, I can tell you about the best (and the worst…) hotels and accommodations in most major destinations (and some not-so-major destinations as well!). Don’t waste hours and hours scrolling through the endless hotel listings online; let me do that, and give you the top choices based on your desired budget and personal preferences.