Curated Travel

Curated Travel: When You’d Rather Have It Done For You

Some trips are easy to build with tools and widgets. Others are cruises, all-inclusive escapes, escorted tours, or multi-stop itineraries where you really don’t want to be the one gluing it all together.

This page is for those “please just make it work” trips. Earthbound Tours partners with a trusted Fareconnect specialist, Brenda Lepine, who focuses on cruises, all-inclusive vacations, guided tours (including Trafalgar-style trips), and packaged experiences that deserve a human brain behind the scenes.

You can still use our tools to price and plan ideas on your own, but when you’re ready for a curated option, this is where you hand it over.

Start Here: How Do You Want to Plan This Trip? Pick the path that matches your energy right now.

Path 1 • Do It Yourself (with tools)

Use Our Tools to Build Your Own Version First

If you like the planning process, start by sketching your own “Earthbound” trip: use our Destinations, Tours, and Booking Tools pillars to price out flights, hotels, and activities.

You can plug flights and dates into the CheapoAir widget on the homepage (Book Yourself section) and compare packages on Expedia to see rough pricing before you decide whether to hand it off.

Path 2 • Done-For-You

Let Brenda Curate the Whole Experience

When you’re dealing with cruises, all-inclusive resorts, guided tours, or family celebration trips where you want everything aligned, it often makes more sense to let a specialist handle it.

Use the quick steps below to describe what you’re dreaming about. We’ll help you build an email that lands in Brenda’s inbox with the most important details already laid out.

Tell Brenda What You’re Looking For (We’ll Pre-Fill the Email)

Answer a few quick questions about your trip. When you’re done, hit “Prepare Email to Brenda”. Your email app will open with a subject line and message body already prepared based on what you chose—you can review and edit before you send.

1. What kind of curated trip feels closest to what you want? Pick the main focus. This becomes your email subject line.
2. What matters most about how this trip feels? Select as many as you like.
Used so Brenda can reply directly.
e.g., YQR, YVR, YYC, or your nearest major city.
Exact dates not required—month or season is fine.
A range helps set expectations, but you can leave this blank if unsure.
Must-see destinations, mobility needs, cruise lines you like, dates that won’t work, etc.

If your email app doesn’t open automatically, you can still copy the text from the email it generates and paste it into a message to brenda.lepine@fareconnect.com.

You can always start with the tools, run a few ideas through the CheapoAir widget on the homepage or compare packages on Expedia, and then come back here when you’re ready to have a curated trip built around what you liked best. Think of this page as your bridge between DIY planning and a fully handled itinerary.

Affiliate & Partner Note: Some of the tools and platforms mentioned across Earthbound Tours are affiliate partners. If you make a booking through those links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Brenda’s Fareconnect services are handled directly through Fareconnect’s booking systems, with their own terms, conditions, and protections.

What this page is for: This Curated Travel hub helps you decide whether to build your own trip using Earthbound’s tools or hand everything to a Fareconnect specialist. It explains when a curated trip makes sense (cruises, all-inclusive stays, escorted tours, celebration trips, bucket-list journeys), then uses a short quiz-style form to pre-fill an email to Brenda with your trip type, preferences, and basic details so she can respond with curated options.