My story

Where your money goes

Two things hold on every trip we plan. You pay the same rate as booking direct — we're paid by the properties, never marked up to you. And where your money ends up depends on how the trip is built, so we build deliberately.

On safari, a share of every night goes to park and conservancy fees — the money that funds rangers, habitat, and the communities who live with the wildlife. It's why we favor conservancies and camps that hire locally: your trip is often the economic argument for keeping that land wild.

Everywhere else, the same instinct picks the property. In Italy it's the family-run hotel over the interchangeable chain, the agriturismo where the family cooks. In Peru, the lodge that trains its guides from the villages below the trail. In Australia, the station stay and the Indigenous-guided walk. Local guides, local kitchens, local owners — money that stays where you spent it, and a trip that feels rooted instead of laminated.

And our planning fee — $250, credited in full toward your trip — funds the unglamorous part that makes all of it work: we brief every property before you arrive. Dietary needs, the occasion, the room that fits the view you described. That's what the fee buys.