Every trip below was designed, booked, and travelled — and published with its actual numbers, including my planning fee. Don't take my word for it. Look at the trips.
A family Spring Break. A once-a-year legend. A month at 80+. A reunion turned voyage. A first river cruise. None of them came from a brochure.
A Victoria family of four — two parents, 13-year-old twins — connected London, Paris, Switzerland and Italy entirely by train, with the Bernina Express stitched into the middle.
Two friends from BC on the once-a-year departure that retraces the original 1883 route — five nights aboard, black-tie dinners, palace hotels in Budapest and Bucharest, booked fifteen months out.
A Victoria couple aged 80 and 86 — Rome's ruins with a guide, Pompeii with an archaeologist, the full circle of Sicily by car, and a finale in the palazzo of The Leopard. Adventure has no expiry date.
A mother and daughter asked for two things: Ireland properly, and family in Stavanger. They got an escorted Irish circuit — then sailed the entire coast of Norway under the midnight sun to connect them.
An aunt from Victoria, her niece from Moncton — routed onto the same flight, met in Paris, then seven nights through Bordeaux wine country at harvest, and a Marseille finale that made her "top 5 hotels ever."
Every trip here started the same way: someone told me where they were dreaming of — or just described the feeling they were after.
Ask Max about your tripEach story follows the same anatomy: the brief my clients arrived with, the route stop by stop, the design decisions you'd never see on a booking site, the honest notes I give before anyone pays a deposit — and the real numbers, with my planning fee printed right beside the total. Transparency isn't a marketing gimmick; it's how you'll know what working together actually looks like before you ever email me.
Every trip I design starts from scratch — yours won't look like any of these, it'll look like yours.
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