Kyoto & the Japan Alps
Custom travel planning · Austin, TX
Trips built one traveler at a time
Meridian Trips plans custom itineraries, honeymoons, family trips, and small-group tours. You get one planner who has walked the route and stays your contact from the first call to the flight home.
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Amalfi Coast & Rome
Patagonia Explorer
Costa Rica Family Week
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Tell us where you want to go
Share your dates, destination, and budget per person. A planner replies within one business day with a first outline. No planning fee to get a plan on paper.
- One planner, start to finish
- Draft itinerary within 4 business days
- Cancellation windows in writing before you pay
Thanks. We have your trip idea and a planner will reach out within one business day.
Sample itineraries
Trips we plan most
Each price is a per-person starting point. Your final quote depends on dates, group size, and hotels.
- Kyoto & the Japan Alps 12 days from $4,200 pp
- Amalfi Coast & Rome 9 days from $3,600 pp
- Patagonia Explorer 11 days from $5,100 pp
- Costa Rica Family Week 8 days from $2,900 pp
- Greek Islands Honeymoon 10 days from $4,400 pp
- Kenya Safari, small group 9 days from $6,800 pp
How planning works
Four steps from idea to itinerary
- 01
Consult
A 30-minute call about your dates, budget per person, group size, and the pace you like.
- 02
Itinerary
Your planner sends a day-by-day outline with hotels, activities, and a full price breakdown within 4 business days. Nothing is booked yet.
- 03
Book
You mark what to change. Once you approve, we reserve flights, hotels, and guides and hold options while you decide.
- 04
Travel
You carry a printed and mobile itinerary, and one contact you can reach during the trip in any time zone.
Why book with a planner
What an agent adds
One contact
The same planner from the first call to the flight home. When a train is cancelled, you text one person who knows your whole trip.
Rates you cannot see
Consortia hotel rates that often add breakfast and a room credit, plus room categories held back from public booking sites.
Hours back
We compare 40 to 60 hotel and routing options so you review one plan, not 40 open browser tabs.
Someone on call
A missed connection at 2 a.m. local time gets re-booked while you sleep, by a planner who has your full trip on file.
Terms in writing
Every supplier's cancellation window is listed in writing before you pay, and travel insurance is offered on each booking.
Reviews
What travelers say
We gave Meridian two weeks and a budget for our honeymoon and got a day-by-day plan for Greece in three days. The hotel had a room credit we would never have found on our own.
Renee A.Austin, TX
Our flight home was cancelled at midnight in Lima and our planner had us re-booked before we reached the hotel. Worth the whole fee for that one night.
Marcus D.Dallas, TX
Traveling with two kids under 10 is a lot. They paced the Costa Rica trip so no day ran long and every hotel had a pool. We booked again the next year.
Priya K.Houston, TX
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