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Specializing in the surprise vacation- I do all the planning, you just pack a bag and go!

03/09/2024

BEST BOOK OF 2024?!?!

I love a light beach read, I love me some s**t, but sometime in mid-August I found myself really craving A BOOK, ya know? And my god do I know how to pick ‘em.

It turns out, this book is historical fiction and YA (young-adult). I had no idea about either before I started and while both genres happen to be right up my alley, if the same is not necessarily true for you, I beg you to give this a chance anyway. I finished this book weeks ago and still think about these characters daily. It’s a story of hope, strength and resilience. The Syria you meet in this book is a beautiful place. I hope to get to meet her one day. 🍋❤️

📚 before I get spammed in the comments: no this book is not “new” but it is new to me. It will not be a “best book of 2024” because it wasn’t published this year but it may very well be my personal best book of 2024 since that’s when I read it 🫶🏼

19/08/2024

boat days, beach days, river days. 37th year around the sun was a good one ☀️ 🏖️ 🚤

31/07/2024

🇫🇷 throwing it back to July 31, 2016 in Reims France.

Reims is in the heart of France’s champagne country, was the center of the French Resistance in WW2 (did you know the Third Reich’s unconditional surrender was signed here?!), and is 45 minutes outside of Paris. It’s perfect for a day trip but I went for a long weekend and there’s still tons that I never got to do!

🥂 🥐 guess I’ll just have to go back again soon!

02/05/2024

Need a good book? Here’s one ☝🏼

⏰ I read this book YEARS ago and the characters are still with me some days.

🎪 The Night Circus takes place at the turn-of-the-century, inside a circus that opens at sunset and closes at dawn. It’s got dueling magicians, a well-meaning but stubborn ghost, and just enough of a love story to set up camp under the “summer beach read” umbrella.

Happy Reading
-E

25/03/2024

need a good book? Here’s one ☝🏼

⏰ I bought this book almost 18 months ago, which might not make a great start to a book review. But it’s the old “buying a book and reading a book are two separate events” thing. I heard of it and immediately knew I wanted to read it, I just didn’t want to read it RIGHT THEN.

💛 at the time I was in a fluffy beach read moment and SIGN HERE isn’t that. And then I forgot about it, and I discovered it again during another fluffy beach read moment and forgot about…and so it goes.

👌 This book takes places almost exclusively in 2 spots: the 5th floor of Hell and a lake house in New Hampshire. Yes that Hell. Yes it somehow works. And Claudia Lux’s Hell? It’s a thing of beauty. Straight from the book: “It’s music that’s too loud, food that’s too rubbery, and kissing with too much tongue”. Chefs kiss, perfection.

🔥 The cast of characters in Hell belong there, the ones at the lake house are rightfully on their way, and there you are somehow rooting for everyone and no one at the same time. .book.club first introduced me to this book and described it as Agatha Christie meets The Good Place. If you like either of those then you need to read this. And if, like me, you like both, then you’re going to love this.

Happy Reading
- E

19/03/2024

Introducing TBR with TBE 📚 ✈️

📖 For those that know me outside of instagram, you know that reading is something I love to do about as much as I love to travel (I’d argue that its own form of travel, is it not?) and I’ve been thinking for awhile about the best way to incorporate that passion here.

🛫📚 well here it is! TBR with TBE will give you your next book for your travels: whether that travel is halfway around the world, “sittervising” on a local park bench, or a mental escape at the end of a long day.

Happy reading!

08/03/2024

Free ways to support women-owned small businesses this International Women’s Day 👯‍♀️🩷💪🏼

👏🏼 start right now! Tag your favorite women owned business in the comments, and check out my stories to see a few of mine!

01/03/2024

Happy Women’s History Month 👯‍♀️

starting the month with my new favorite mug from one of my favorite females on instagram

08/02/2024

Drop a 🌎❤️ if you, like me, still know every word to this song!

☀️ some clients escaped the cold on the beautiful beaches of and

❄️ others sought out the snow in and

🤷🏻‍♀️ need help figuring out where to go next? Dm me today!

23/01/2024

That last one though 😉 what am I, some kind of genius??

05/01/2024

two years ago we grabbed our boat & some friends and headed to the Florida Keys for the month of January. We quickly decided this would become an annual thing and went back to repeat it the following year. This year, for one thousand little reasons, it didn’t work out for us to go.

❄️🥶⛄️ with this weekend’s impending weather, I’ve never regretted a decision more in my life 😆😆 if anyone has a house in the keys that’s available immediately, lmk.

25/12/2023

🎄🎅🏼 Merry Christmas

If you’re up for a little game, let’s play! How many countries do you recognize in the photos? Give yourself a point for each one and comment your score below. No peeking but when you’re ready for the answers keep scrolling…👀

1️⃣ France
2️⃣ Germany
3️⃣ Ireland
4️⃣ Austria
5️⃣ Australia
6️⃣ Japan
7️⃣ Finland

07/12/2023

You need experience gifts for the kids & adults in your life, has got you covered!

➡️ swipe through for experiences based on age, babies through adults! Links to Instagram pages below

🗣️questions about any of these recc’s? Comment below or dm me!

Littles

Bigs

Teens/Adults

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30/08/2023

Only the 4th airline in the world to offer seating like this, and the 1st in Europe, the Turkish-Dutch Corendon Airlines announced this week it will begin offering child-free zones on its flights.

🚫👶🏻👧🏼 The “Only Adult” section will be located in the front of the plane and closed off by walls and a curtain. Just over 100 seats will be available for an extra charge ranging from $48-$108 depending on the location of the seat within the section.

✈️ so far the launch, happening in November, is only for the route between Amsterdam and Curaçao. Only passengers 16+ only are allowed to book seats in this section and the airlines says this division will help “families with children as well as business travelers or childless passengers”

🤔🗣️ what do you think?? I’d love if you’d share below!

23/08/2023

This question is one of the first ones that I ask my clients during our initial travel planning phone call, and I almost never get a simple answer. Rather, it initiates a bigger conversation about trip purpose, budget, and priorities.

So what team are you on??
🏨 Team Hotel
🏡 Team Airbnb

09/08/2023

Went down an unexpected rabbit hole re: dinner times yesterday in stories so I had to do some more research. 🥘🍴

What time do you eat dinner??

31/07/2023

The first stop on the Elyse’s Favorite Thing’s tour was in the heart of the champagne region. Because champagne tops the list of Elyses favorite things, naturally 🥂

🇫🇷 seven years later, this is one of my favorite fun facts learned on this trip: did you know that 90% of all champagne made in a given year never leaves France? 🤯 that means that all the champagne that is available for us to buy, in allllll the cities, states, and countries that we find it in…makes up only 10% of what France produces!

7 years ago today, we were just leaving after an amazing 3 days in Reims…any guesses where we went next?!

28/07/2023

a Facebook reminder today that makes me feel old 🙃

7 years ago today, I had only a few short weeks left of my 20s and my husband and I took an “Elyse’s Favorite Things” trip. Any guesses where we went? 😉

19/07/2023

I’ve never been a nervous flyer but I also kinda understand it. If you really think about it, the act of flying is a little….WTF?! But there’s a whole wide world out there and how else are you going to see it? 🌍 ❤️

✈️ Tag the nervous flyer in your life…or are you one??Share any tips that help you below!

09/06/2023

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

When considering a destination for travel, one of the first steps I take is to check the state departments website for travel advisories (travel.state.gov). I have never had to consider if a particular place is safe for me, specifically and authentically as the person I am.

For those that do, I hope this post serves as a resource for you. ➡️ Swipe to the very end for even more resources as you make plans to see this big, beautiful world, as authentically you 🏳️‍🌈

[data from Forbes’ “20 Safest Countries for LGBTQ Travelers” most recent report, March 2023]

09/06/2023

01/06/2023

It’s been a minute since the last Let’s Ask Elyse so, let’s get into it!

🌟 Bonus Trick! 🌟
This one is especially helpful for long haul flights, because you need a middle section.

The seat setup:
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Book aisles in the middle section one behind the other. The idea is that the remaining two seats in each row will be booked by people traveling together. When that middle person needs to get up, they will crawl over their traveling companion instead of you. Extra points if that middle seat just remains empty.

It gives both you and your partner the aisle, no disturbances, and you’re close enough to each other though not exactly next to. I’ve only tried this one a very few times but it has a 100% success rate so far 💃🏼

What other airplane seat hacks are out there? Any you’ve had success with? Share below! ⬇️

03/04/2023

The Surprise Vacation 🥳

📚 how it works: you fill out a pre-travel questionnaire and that’s it! Leave the rest to me. I’ll choose the location, plan out your days, make restaurant recommendations and reservations, all you have to do is show up!

🎂 great for a milestone birthday

👰‍♀️ the most stress-free way to honeymoon and perfect for a bachelorette

❤️ surprise your spouse for an anniversary

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 instead of surprising the kids for the holidays, surprise the whole family (yourself included!)

The possibilities are endless! DM for details now!

27/03/2023

Wrapping up the final week of with Asnath, our final cool woman in travel history.

➡️ Swipe to read more!

21/03/2023

it’s spring! 💐…the warm weather is in sight, but it’s not here yet. Scroll for some budget-friendly beaches. Did I miss any??

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Sometimes the hardest part about a vacation is committing to taking one. But have you ever heard anyone say at the end of their career they should have taken less days off and worked more? 🧐🧐 tag a friend who needs to see this and remember life is all about balance #taketimeforyou #taketimetobreathe

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Is there anything more magical than Paris at Christmas? 🤩🎄

one answer to the “but what if I can’t be flexible with my travel dates?” question 🤪 💡 & there’s more where this came from! Follow for next week’s answer to the question I know is coming: “what if I can’t be flexible with my dates OR my location?!” 😉

It’s everyone’s biggest question when planning a vacation: how do I get cheap airline tickets? ✈️ use a website that will price compare multiple airlines at once. my favorites are skyscanner & momondo ✈️ be as flexible as possible with departure and return dates. Wednesday is the cheapest day to fly 😉

We’ll take all the stress & mess away from your vacation. A detailed itinerary is included in every vacation package so all you need to do is pack your bag and get ready for some fun ☀️🌆🏝

I originally planned to set calming & therapeutic music over this video but honestly the original audio is too good 🤣 Would I do this? Yes. Would I sound like this? Also yes! How about you? Would you go on this Skyscanner Swing in Dolomitites, Italy? Would you sound like this too? Tag someone you think can handle it! 🇮🇹 🏔

The Maeklong Market in Thailand 😍 existing on top of an active railroad, the market quickly packs up to allow trains to pass through- up to 8 times a day! Once the train has passed, vendors re-establish their shops and it’s back to business as usual. The bird’s eye view from this angle is a little mesmerizing, the more I watch it the more details I notice. 🎥 @earthpix @wildflaneurs

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