Family reunions, cruises, and retreats — planned by someone who keeps the spreadsheet so you don't have to.
Thirty people, four households, and everyone has a different budget and a different idea of a good time. I build trips that work for a grandmother and a toddler in the same week, track who has paid and who hasn't, and stay on top of the deadlines nobody else is watching.
Cabin categories, connecting staterooms, dining times, the excursion one person wants and nobody else does. I know which questions to ask before you book, not after, and I handle the group holds and payment deadlines that make sailings with a crowd go sideways.
Ten women, one group chat, four hundred unread messages. I take the coordination off the organizer's plate — room assignments, dietary needs, arrival windows, the friend who books late every time — so the person who planned it gets to actually enjoy it.
Groups are the specialty, not the limit — I also plan solo trips, couples' getaways, and single-family vacations. If you're going somewhere, ask.
I spent 17 years in healthcare IT untangling complicated systems for large organizations. That's a strange background for a travel advisor until you see what I actually do: I plan the trips nobody else wants to touch.
I got into this the way most people do — by doing it for free. The first big one was a family reunion here in Atlanta in 2010, and I've been coordinating gatherings, reunions, and group trips ever since. Somewhere between the supplier who didn't return my call and the fourth version of the rooming list, I realized the frustration I was absorbing was exactly the thing I could take off someone else's plate.
So here's the job as I see it: you tell me who's coming and what matters to them, and I handle the rest — the holds, the deadlines, the cabin categories, the cousin who books late every single time. You get a trip that feels effortless. I keep the spreadsheet.
Who's coming, roughly when, and what would make it worth it. Five minutes on a form.
Real options with real numbers, not a list of links. You pick the one that fits.
Deposits, deadlines, rooming, special requests, and the follow-up nobody else remembers to do.
Five minutes now saves you the group chat later.