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Trips you’ll still be talking about a decade from now
We’re Mike and Sue. We plan several kinds of trips well: slow European journeys, cruises (river and ocean), all-inclusive resorts and group travel. If we don’t feel we can do it well, we’ll refer it out.
Who this is for
We’re the right fit for travelers who’d rather stay three weeks in southern Italy than do seven countries in ten days. The kind of traveler who cares whether the confirmation number is right, who doesn’t want to spend the first morning of a honeymoon on the phone with a hotel about a reservation that didn’t hold.
We typically plan trips starting at $5,000. If budget is the primary driver, we’re probably not your team, and we’ll happily point you to someone who is.
Two lanes, planned properly
Lane A — Sue
Slow European journeys, with Sue
Italy, Greece, France, planned long enough to matter. A morning making orecchiette with a grandmother in Puglia? A private evening inside a castle that doesn’t show up on TripAdvisor. Twenty years in senior HR leadership taught me to read people before agendas, and that’s how I plan: the client first, the itinerary second.
Start here if you want to live inside a place, not photograph it from a bus window.
Lane B — Mike
Ocean cruises, all-inclusives, and groups, with Mike
Thirty years as a master plumber teaches you to read a blueprint three steps ahead. That’s the same skill a cruise or a resort week or a 40-person group needs: flight logic, cabin and room allocations, shore excursions, contingency plans, and the pastor’s wife’s dietary restrictions, all working together without drama. Mike books ocean cruises Royal Caribbean, Disney, Norwegian (specializing in the Haven at Sea), all-inclusive resorts for couples and families, and group departures from family reunions to church retreats to milestone celebrations. Signature group trips currently booking: the Red Kingdom Cruise, Alaska July 2027, and Journeys with Paul.
Start here if you’re planning a cruise, a resort week for the family, or pulling a group together that needs a real planner instead of a booking form.
How a trip with us actually goes
A 20-minute discovery call. No quote yet. We want to hear who’s going and what you want the week to feel like before we recommend anything.
A proposal that reads like a story. Flights, hotels, and excursions all line up, and the document itself is formatted, branded, and ready for you to forward to your partner without edits.
Line-by-line accuracy before anything reaches you. Names, dates, times, confirmations, spellings, flight logic — all double-checked. That’s the floor. The story is the ceiling.
We’re not for everyone
We don’t take bargain-hunt trips. We don’t do “just book me the cheapest flight.” We don’t plan destinations outside our expertise; if it’s not our lane, we’ll say so and refer you out. And we don’t sell Instagram photos. We sell the trip that actually delivers when you’re standing there.
I will use you again and send you all my friends.
reduce your stress hassle and worry-free plans transportation spoiled (your name on signs) safe hotel locations priority access to all tours stream-lined itinerary protected traveling red carpet treatment by agents on siteWhy us
Sue spent twenty years in senior HR leadership before going full-time on travel. Mike spent thirty as a master plumber. Between us, we've read a lot of blueprints and a lot of people. We plan trips the way we'd plan our own: slowly, specifically, with every name and confirmation checked twice before it reaches you.
Ready to start?
A 20-minute call costs you nothing and tells us both whether we're the right fit.
Or call us: Mike 660-672-9636 · Sue 573-355-2438