A traveler at the edge of a quiet landscape

About Trip Companion

Bespoke trips, designed by people who live where you're going.

A small studio in Portsmouth. A network of vetted local planners. Eight countries we know quietly well — and one short conversation between you and any of them.

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A note from the studio

We don't believe in collecting countries. We believe in knowing one valley deeply, one ramen counter properly, one fjord at the right hour — and trusting the planner who lives there to show you which.

8Countries we cover

17People in the team

3Concierge time zones

1Flat design fee

A small marketplace and an open notebook

Portsmouth, UK

How it began

It started quietly.

For years, friends would ask us where to eat in Tokyo, where to stay in Marrakech, which valleys to drive through in Patagonia. We would write back with long, considered answers — paragraph after paragraph of opinionated suggestions, drawn from people we trusted on the ground.

By the summer of 2024, the answers had started to look like itineraries. We had quietly built a network of local planners — chefs, former hoteliers, second-generation guides — who knew their countries the way only someone who lives there can.

Trip Companion was incorporated to formalise the network. The studio is in Portsmouth. The actual trips are shaped wherever you're going.

Our purpose

To send travelers somewhere they couldn't have found alone.

Every trip we design is, in some small way, an introduction — to a chef, a valley, a tea master, a fishing village at the end of a road. The point is not to see the world. The point is to meet a part of it.

What we hold to

Three things we won't compromise on.

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Slowly, not faster.

Coverage is overrated. We design trips that go deep into one country at a comfortable pace — long lunches, second nights, days with no plan. The travelers who leave happiest are the ones who didn't try to see everything.

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Personally, not at scale.

Every planner is interviewed and trusted by us, individually. Every itinerary is shaped from your brief — there are no template trips and no copy-paste days. A real human reads every enquiry that comes through.

/03

Honestly, not flashy.

One flat design fee, quoted up front. No hidden commissions on bookings, no upsell pressure, no recommendation we wouldn't make to a friend. If we don't think a trip is right for you, we'll tell you.

How a trip comes together

Four steps. No pressure.

A short note to us.

Tell us where you've always meant to go and roughly when. Anything else you want us to know — anniversary, dietary needs, dream lodgings — helps.

A fifteen-minute conversation.

A real human — usually one of us — calls you. We confirm the brief, agree on a fit, quote a flat design fee. Free of charge, no commitment.

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A planner who lives there.

We match you with the right person on the ground. Within a few days, you receive a draft itinerary written for you, not lifted from a brochure.

Refinement, then booking.

We refine until it's right. Only then do you commit to a deposit. From there, our concierge desk holds your hand from departure to safe landing.

Ready when you are

Tell us where you've always meant to go.

Plan a trip → Meet the team