Luxury Travel Planning, Designed Around You

Luxury travel isn't simply about spending more. It's about traveling well — with thoughtful planning, exceptional accommodations, seamless logistics, and experiences chosen around the way you want to travel.

Whether you want me to plan your journey from beginning to end or you've already done the research and simply want help choosing and booking the best option, I'll meet you wherever you are in the planning process.

Start Planning Your Trip

How Would You Like to Plan?

There is no single way to work with a travel advisor. Some of my clients want me to take care of everything. Others love doing their own research and come to me once they've narrowed down their choices.

Both work beautifully.

Plan It for Me

You're ready to travel, but you don't have the time — or desire — to spend hours comparing hotels, researching neighborhoods, arranging transportation, and figuring out how all the pieces fit together.

Tell me what you have in mind, what matters to you, and how you like to travel. I'll research the options, make personalized recommendations, and help coordinate the details of your trip.

Depending on your journey, that can include exceptional hotels and resorts, private transfers, tours and experiences, transportation, special arrangements, and the logistics that connect everything together.

You'll review the recommendations and make the final decisions. I'll take care of bringing the pieces together.

I Know What I Want

Already know where you're going? Even better.

Maybe you've narrowed your search to two or three hotels. Maybe you've found the exact room and rate you want online. You don't have to start the planning process over just because you're working with a travel advisor.

Send me what you've found.

I'll compare your options, check available advisor rates and benefits, and help you determine which booking offers the best overall value. Once you've made your choice, I can take care of the reservation and communicate with the hotel when appropriate.

Already found your hotel? Let me check it before you book.

What Does Luxury Travel Mean?

Luxury is personal.

Sometimes it's a beautiful five-star hotel with extraordinary service. Sometimes it's having a private driver waiting after a long flight instead of figuring out transportation when you're exhausted.

It can be access to an experience you couldn't easily arrange yourself, a thoughtfully paced itinerary, a room chosen for the things that matter to you, or simply knowing that someone else has already done the research.

To me, luxury travel is about time, comfort, personalization, access, and service — not simply choosing the most expensive option.

A Better Way to Book Exceptional Hotels

If you've already found a hotel you love, working with me doesn't mean paying more or giving up control of your booking.

Through my affiliation with Fora Travel, I have access to preferred hotel partnerships and advisor programs at properties around the world.

Depending on the hotel, program, rate, and availability, your stay may include benefits such as daily breakfast, hotel or resort credits, upgrade priority, early check-in, late checkout, or other amenities.

Sometimes I may also have access to a competitive or preferred rate.

That's why I encourage clients to send me what they've already found. I can compare the available options and help you look beyond the room price to determine which booking provides the best overall value.

Benefits and rates vary by property, program, room category, and availability and are not guaranteed unless confirmed with your reservation.

Found a hotel and a rate you like? Send it to me and I'll take a look.

Beyond the Hotel

A great trip isn't just about where you sleep.

Private transfers and transportation
Private guides, tours, and experiences
VIP airport services when appropriate
Hotel concierge coordination and special requests
Cruises
Luxury rail journeys
All-inclusive resorts
Other trip logistics and arrangements

The goal is not to add things simply because they're available. It's to make the journey work smoothly from one experience to the next.

Preferred Partnerships, Meaningful Benefits

As a travel advisor affiliated with Fora Travel, I have access to a global network of hotel relationships and preferred partner programs.

At participating properties, those relationships can translate into additional benefits, special recognition, and an added level of communication with the hotel.

But the partnership itself isn't the point.

What matters is what it can do for your stay.

I'll help you understand which benefits apply to the hotel and rate you're considering so you can make an informed decision before booking.

How It Works

1. Tell Me About Your Trip

Share where you're going, who's traveling, your dates, what matters to you, and anything you've already researched.

2. Choose How Much Help You Want

Need the entire trip researched and planned? I can do that.

Already know exactly what you want? Send it my way.

Or we can work somewhere in between.

3. Review Your Options

I'll research or check the appropriate options and present my recommendations. You'll always make the final decisions.

4. Book & Coordinate

Once you've approved the plans, I'll take care of the reservations we're arranging and coordinate applicable details with the hotels and travel partners involved.

Then you'll have your plans and confirmations organized for your trip.

Meet Lucy

I'm Lucia Castaldo, the travel advisor behind Lucy Trails Atelier.

I help travelers create thoughtfully planned journeys around the world, whether that means designing an itinerary from the beginning or simply making sure a hotel they've already chosen is booked in the best way available to them.

My approach is personal and flexible: you don't need to hand over control of your vacation to benefit from working with a travel advisor.

You decide how involved you want me to be. I'll take it from there.

Ready When You Are

Whether you have nothing more than a destination in mind or already have three hotel tabs open in your browser, you can start there.

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