Stephanie The Travel Agent Next Door: 2023

Thursday 22 June 2023

My New Travel Partner

I have worked for Exclusive to You Travel for the last eight years. Recently I have partnered up with my colleague Sarah Moore and we will be hosting a number of groups for 2024 and 2025. One or the other or both of us will be in most of the groups.

Sarah is a former military police officer and some of our groups will be checking out Canadian Monuments abroad. Next year will be the 80th Anniversary of D-day. We both have a passion for travel and sharing it with others.

Travel has changed since covid. Booking further out will often get you better rates and groups help with that as well. Last-minute bookings are still available but not necessarily at the deals that were available in the past.

Let us help you make lasting travel memories with friends and family!!

Here are the details for our first group in January 2024. An All-inclusive stay in the Dominican Republic

Our second group will be in April 2024 to France where we will have an opportunity to take in the war memorial sites as well as Paris and a visit to Versailles. Prices for this opportunity will be available shortly.

The third group will be Jordan in July of 2024, Sarah and I will both be there in June for our conference and we look forward to helping you enjoy this spectacular venue as well. Here are the details for this group

Our fourth group will be in Greece or Italy in August we are just working on finalizing details for this one shortly.

Our fifth group will be a War Monuments sailing on Regent in September 2024. These prices and cabin categories will be available shortly as well.

Our sixth and last group of 2024 will be on a Christmas Market River cruise in November 2024 on an Ama ship. Once again details of this will be released shortly. Sarah and her husband were on board an Ama cruise last year for a Christmas Market cruise here are a few of their pictures.

If you want to put together your own group of friends and family trip please reach out and we will be more than happy to work with you on an itinerary and get you to where you want to go.

And we are also already working on 2025 we will have at least two River cruises available but in exotic locations. One along the Nile in Egypt. The other is on the Magdaleine in Columbia.

And for those of you who love to golf, we will also have some amazing travel golf groups to share as well. Imagine golfing all over the world!!!

Where you can find me:

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Website: http://www.exclusivetoyoutravel.ca

Email: slough@exclusivetoyoutravel.com

TICO 50021282 55 York Street, Suite 1003 Toronto, On M5J 1R7

Office Phone 416-367-8264 ext 2625 Direct Phone 343-998-6387

Please keep in mind that while my head office is in Toronto. I am a home-based travel agent and I live in Brockville I can service clients anywhere in Canada. But, I meet with clients in the SD&G area. I will still meet my clients in this area as well as in Leeds and Grenville.

Monday 27 February 2023

Grad Trip Adventures!!! Part two

Our Hotel in New York City was The Hilton in the Fashion District. I was trying to be closer to the port than times square because little did we realize when Victoria picked this cruise. Sunday, November 6th our boarding day was also the NYC marathon.

So you are probably wondering what exactly that means. One it meant the hotel rooms were almost double in price and less to choose from. Second on Sunday itself a lot of road closures. This actually worked in our favour. Many people went underground to the subway so our Uber had no traffic really to deal with.

So Friday night we did not go out. Instead, we ordered a late meal. We checked out Sticky's finger joint. The food was not bad. We now travel with reusable bamboo utensils as with Uber eats it is a hit or a miss. We needed them.

Saturday morning we started our day off running. Well rather walking. We did the underground donut tour. 4 stops, 6 different donuts, 2 full, and 4 halves. Started in Manhattan and finished in Chelsea. About 2.5 km in total and a good pace for us. Also, it was a small group. Victoria and I are with another couple. Our tour guide Missy was amazing.

Our first donut stop was Eataly. The Second was Dough Handmade Artisanal Donuts. The third stop was Mah Ze Dah. The last stop was the donut project.

The first stop was a full donut. I can not remember the name but a custard cream in the. middle and very yummy.

Second stop two donuts. Same dough two different icings. Half donuts. One was dark chocolate. The second was passion fruit. The third was another donut with a cream filling and a donut hole. The last stop was once again two donut halves. These represented NYC. The first was a cream cheese drizzle with everything bagel seasoning. The second was a Bronx donut with an olive oil-based drizzle with peppercorn.

I liked all of them but the last. Victoria didn't enjoy the Dough donuts or the peppercorn.

This underground donut tour is available in many cities. We would definitely do it again in another city. We also learned the history of many of the areas/streets/buildings we passed which was also a nice touch. It also slows the walking pace speed down. On another note, we did not eat everything it is too much but they do provide take-out containers.