Let’s work together
Your leisure time is your most precious, non-renewable asset, but deciding how and where to spend it can be stressful and tedious. Designing seamless trips requires inspiration, expertise and careful listening, coupled with meticulous planning, attention to detail, and access to vetted partners. We curate the travel experience of your dreams.
Exceptional travel experiences
Why work with us?
Everything we design is bespoke to your desires, preferences, and motivations. By working with a small number of highly-valued clients, we are able to build a personalized, long-term relationship as your trusted expert advisor, available to prioritize your needs.
Exclusivity
The luxury travel industry is made up of human beings that take great pride in their country’s heritage, cuisine, art, and natural beauty - a key component of “sustainability” in travel. Through our authentic relationships with wonderful individuals throughout the world, we provide access to non-googleable, magical experiences that will help you maximize your personal growth and enrich your lifelong memories.
Authenticity
In a world of seemingly infinite choices, deciding where to go, where to stay, and what to do, can feel daunting. We are your personal expert and thought partner in shaping your travel experiences based on your motivations and preferences, family and group dynamics, and more. Guided by your vision and how you want to feel, we seek to deeply understand and enhance the role travel plays in your life.
Expertise
Leveraging our expertise and honed processes, we save you hours of tedious planning time, providing a smooth and supported experience before, during, and after travel. Spend your days dreaming about destinations and experiences that will thrill and delight you, not agonizing over logistics or managing mundane details.
With the benefit of our top-tier preferred partner network, and as a member of Virtuoso, the world’s foremost invitation-only luxury travel network, we provide you with VIP treatment throughout. You will receive the most attentive service and amenities like hotel credits, complimentary breakfast, and upgrades. Our on-the-ground, in-country partners ensure you are supported and well cared for should any snafus arise.
Ease
benefits
- Kate G.
We had a fantastic experience working with Alessia on a dream vacation to Italy and England. After listening carefully to our ideas, she translated them into a phenomenal two weeks filled with wonderful experiences in absolutely gorgeous settings. Her recommendations are impeccable and she attended to every detail. Alessia's eye for beauty, personal warmth and passion for creating experiences of a lifetime make her a pleasure to work with. We couldn't recommend her more highly.
- Miriam I.
I just returned home from a 'bucket list' trip to Italy with my husband that Alessia helped me plan and it was absolutely incredible! Our trip exceeded all of my expectations--the logistics were seamless and all the details were so thoughtful. Alessia really listened to our priorities and helped us create an incredible itinerary, including a once in a lifetime foodie experience. I also really appreciate that she helped us with everything including restaurant reservations, hotels, and experiences. My least favorite part of traveling is the planning--it really sucks the joy out of it. Working with Alessia made this a vacation rather than a trip, and I am so glad I worked with her!
- Marcy C.
Alessia designed literally the best trip to Mexico to celebrate my milestone birthday! When I say it was PERFECT, it really was….communication was crystal clear throughout the process, the room choice was stunning, and our gorgeous hotel treated us with so much thoughtfulness, warmth, and special touches as her clients. I’ve already planned my next trip with Alessia, this time to Aspen!
- Jennifer B.
Alessia is on top of every detail and prioritized our personal preferences and comfort during our trip to Costa Rica. Her suggestions were a great mix of fun and relaxation that were perfect for our family. The itinerary app was an added bonus that kept everyone up-to-date and engaged. We are already daydreaming about planning our next trip with Alessia!
- Jas S.
Working with Alessia on our recent trip to Kauai was seamless and fun! As you can imagine, I was feeling overwhelmed planning an adventurous 8-day itinerary for 10 people ranging in age from 4 to 76. Alessia didn't bat an eye - she stepped in immediately to offer amazing suggestions, reach out to her vendors and partners on details, and gather the needed information from us to recommend, plan and book our entire itinerary within a week. Alessia is experienced, kind and well-traveled, and I was thrilled to work with her. I cannot wait to plan future trips with Alessia!
- Rachel S.
The anniversary trip Alessia planned for us in Italy was beyond wonderful. We loved everything! She planned out each detail but also listened to our need for plenty of unscheduled time. She chose wonderful boutique hotels, perfect for different reasons. We traveled with such ease and didn’t worry about anything, thoroughly enjoying ourselves. Alessia included unique touches that showed how carefully she crafted the itinerary and how much she cares. Before this trip, we rarely traveled because we found it too stressful, and now we are already planning next summer’s trip with Alessia with our teenage kids joining. Alessia opened up a whole new world for us and we are so grateful!
Frequently asked questions
Founder and principal advisor Alessia Bell brings decades of client advisory experience at the top level of various domains, including law, technology, finance, to travel. Advisory work is an art, one that requires listening and understanding, coupled with guiding clients towards what will fulfill not only their tactical preferences but also motivations and dreams. All team members at Alessia Bell Travel are carefully selected for their values, abilities, and skills in client advisory work as well as their expertise in travel.
Our motivation is to be your trusted long-term partner for the travel component of your life, bringing you the joy, connection, relaxation, and sense of wonderment that is possible through travel. We aim to serve you not just for particular trips, but across many years, applying our discerning eye and inside access to suggest travel experiences that would delight you and your family and enhance your life.
Your trip doesn’t have to be complicated to work with us! We provide the highest level of service and attention to detail, whether you are traveling for weeks throughout Southeast Asia or for a quick getaway to New York City.
We apply our travel expertise and knowledge of your preferences to create an optimal trip. While a glut of information is available online, much of it is unvetted and unreliable. Even for a simple booking, we’ll guide you to the right neighborhood, the right hotel, the right room, saving you hours of time researching and freeing you of the burden of planning travel.
While we welcome clients who give us carte blanche, we also love to work with clients who love researching! Bring us your destination ideas, bucket lists, restaurant books, itinerary maps, hotel spreadsheets… we’ll couple that with our inside and ahead-of-the curve intel. For instance, our hotel partners let us know way in advance of construction and things that might disrupt stays, as well as of planned openings that will wow certain clients. Once we have your perfect itinerary outlined, we will take care of the mundane details that even the most consummate researchers don’t enjoy tackling, like triple confirming your hotel/dining reservations and arranging transportation. We’ll ensure every detail of your day is documented in our itinerary platform, which you’ll have at your fingertips while traveling.
Where you already know your destination and hotel, booking is complementary and you will be conferred VIP status. We have personal relationships with hoteliers throughout the globe, from well known brands to boutique properties. In advance of your arrival, we communicate with the hotel staff to ensure that they know our VIP client is arriving (along with all your preferences for your room, dietary needs etc); which will allow them to tee up the best experience for you. Wherever applicable, you’re conferred Virtuoso and preferred partner amenities, typically including: complimentary breakfast, resort credits of $100+, early check in/late check out, as well as upgrade if available.
Yes, we charge a design fee. Alessia Bell Travel is a professional advisory firm, akin to a financial planner or interior designer. Applying our decades of client advisory experience, travel expertise, and partner connections, we work with you on a consultative basis to create and tailor your trip based on your desires and preferences. Our design fee reflects the many hours of work we devote to craft your unique itinerary. For more information on our fee structure, click here.
For those clients who have already identified their destination and accommodations, and who would like to take advantage of the Alessia Bell Travel VIP treatment and added amenities, we are able to provide complimentary bookings.
In short, no. Hotels view Alessia Bell Travel (and our affiliated agency, Brownell) as a valued partner and confer benefits to clients through booking with us. Booking through Alessia Bell Travel will typically match the best available rate offered directly by the hotel, and you will have VIP status that is better than what you would have had booking directly (higher priority for upgrades, etc) plus amenities. There may sometimes be a better deal you can find online through booking.com or Expedia, often for the least desirable room within a category. If you book with Expedia or a similar site, you are considered the lowest priority on the hotel’s guest list, so if the hotel is overbooked or an issue arises, your booking may be in jeopardy.
Yes - we partner with a very experienced and creative air team who excels at piecing together complicated flight requests. If anything goes awry, instead of spending your precious time on hold with your airline, you’ll have direct 24/7 access to a human specialist to assist in rebooking and rerouting as needed.
Please note that air ticketing fees apply; please click here for more details.
If you prefer to book yourself or use points, please feel free to book your own flights.
