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TripsGala · Over a decade of practice

You have been everywhere.You still haven't arrived.

We plan private trips around how you feel, not around a destination.

About 6 minutes. Free. Already know where you want to go? You can say so.

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What we do

TripsGala is a travel company. We plan your whole trip and arrange it for you: flights, hotels, transfers, guides, and what you do each day. The difference is where we start. We ask how you feel and what you need right now, and only then choose the place.

Burnt out

A quiet place that asks nothing of you. Slow days, no early starts.

Heartbroken

A landscape that holds you. Room to be alone without feeling lonely.

Celebrating

A honeymoon, a milestone, a win. A trip as big as the moment.

Restless

Somewhere that wakes you up. New streets, new food, a little risk.

One city or several countries. Four nights or forty days. Designed by a person, within your means.

Two people book the same resort.

Still hills in morning mist

One of themis running on empty, and needs a place that asks nothing of them.

Rain on a window at dusk

The otheris carrying a broken heart, and needs a landscape that holds them.

The travel industry sells them the same trip.
We never would.

Same hotel. Two entirely different journeys. We design for the person, not the destination.

How a journey begins

A compass resting on an old map
About 6 minutes

You answer a few things about yourself.

Nothing about destinations. Where you go is the last decision, not the first.

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Within 48 hours

A person designs your journey.

Someone real, not a template. You tell them what is wrong with it until it is right.

Mountains under a starred night sky
While you are away

You travel. We keep watch.

If something goes wrong out there, you are not the one fixing it. A second journey is already prepared.

The ContemplativeThe SovereignThe SensualistThe WitnessThe CatalystThe Pilgrim

There are six kinds of traveler.
Most people have never been told which one they are.

The Soul Compass ends by naming yours. Each travels for a different reason, and each needs a different world.

The ContemplativeGoes away to get quiet.The SovereignTheir own way. No group, their own pace.The SensualistComes for the food, the light, the feel of it.The WitnessWould rather watch than do.The CatalystWants to come back different.The PilgrimGoes where something important happened.

A quiet practice.

TripsGala has designed journeys one at a time for more than a decade, almost entirely through people who traveled with us and told someone else. Nothing is picked off a shelf.

Est. 2014One journey at a timeMostly by referral

The canvas changes. The care does not.

The person behind every journey

I started TripsGala in 2014 with one belief: most travel companies sell logistics. They ask where you want to go, and never how you are. So people come home from good trips feeling nothing, because it was the wrong trip for who they were at that moment.

I plan the other way round. I ask how you are first. Then I check the things most people never check: the legroom on the long flight, the layover that is too tight, the hotel that is too far from the quiet you came for. Every journey still passes through my hands before it reaches you.

A. H. Shervani · Head Curator · TripsGala

Is this for me?

There is no fixed price. Tell us your budget, we design inside it, and we say so honestly if it cannot be done well.

What you share stays between you and the person designing your journey.

A lit cabin by a lake at dusk

The journey you need is rarely the one you were about to book.

About 6 minutes. Free, and you leave knowing which traveler you are.

By beginning, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.
We do not design for everyone. If we are not right for your journey, we will tell you.

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