Travel. Connect. Transform.

Our services

At Joyous Journeys, we're committed to creating unforgettable travel experiences with comprehensive service that covers every detail of your dream vacation. Our service fees encompass:

• Personalized Consultation: An initial exploratory video call to understand and tailor the trip precisely to your expectations and desires.

• Comprehensive Trip Planning: Meticulous research, planning, and booking for all types of vacations, including escorted tours, cruises, vacation packages, all-inclusive resorts, road trips, train vacations, and personalized complex travel itineraries.

• Full-Service Travel Management: Complete handling of all travel components, ensuring a seamless and stress-free experience.

• Continuous Support: Dedicated assistance before, during, and after your trip.

• Flexible Planning: Unlimited revisions to your trip proposal and assistance with modifications to booked travel components.

• Detailed Preparation: Comprehensive organization of travel documents and a pre-travel video call to ensure you're fully prepared.

• Convenient Technology: User-friendly mobile app with your complete itinerary and documents at your fingertips.

• Additional Support: Assistance with insurance claims and access to reputable, often personally vetted tour operators, hotels, and service providers.

Service Fee Structure

Packaged Trips (Multiple Travel Components)

• Fee: 5% of total trip cost, payable at final trip payment date

• Example: For a $6,000 trip, the service fee would be $300 (minus the $150 deposit)
  

Basic Trips (Single Travel Component)

• Hotel-only Itinerary: $150 per trip

• Cruise-only Booking: $150 per household

Tour Director Services

• $125/day

• All trip expenses (room or cabin, transportation, excursions, meals, etc.). Many of these expenses can often be covered with tour credits based upon minimum group size for the trip.
  

Initial Deposit

At the beginning of planning your dream vacation, a $150 non-refundable deposit is required. This deposit will be applied to the total service fee.

Important Fee Details

• Effective Date: Fees are valid for new trip bookings as of November 1, 2024

• Payment Terms:

  • Non-refundable, processed at final trip payment/booking

  • Charged to the credit card used for travel services

  • No additional fee for flights included in vacation packages or custom itineraries
    

Note: In case of trip cancellation, the paid service fee may be recoverable through an insurance claim.