Vacations With Flair

bove and beyond when our flight from Chicago to Miami was delayed an hour and a half. We missed our flight to St. Lucia by 30 minutes and were stuck in Miami for the night. This threw off our reservations for our helicopter tour as well as the fact that we were going to lose a whole night in our butler suite. We called her as soon as we landed in Miami and within 2 hours she called us back and said everything was taken care of. She had pushed our stay out an additional night and rebooked our helicopter ride. She took the stress off of us and allowed us to enjoy our little detour stop in Miami. She was absolutely amazing and would recommend her to anyone who is traveling!

enlisted the help of our Travel Agent Aimee from Island Getaways guided us here. We are so thankful that we found Aimee who guided us through the entire process of planning a wedding in another country and coordinated seamlessly the individual travel for each and every one of our guests. She was flexible and easy to reach at any time and most importantly saved us and our guests a lot of money and possible headaches. Our wedding date and days leading up to it was storybook. We worked on the planning for approximately 9 months prior to our wedding date with the onsite wedding coordinator and our travel agent. We stayed in the Casitas section and our guests stayed in the Royale side (budget friendly) as well as the Casitas (more luxurious). We even had a few guests including my sister who wanted to bring her children but since we chose an Adults Only resort our Travel Agent had them accommodated at the neighboring sister resort, Generations, which is connected to the Casitas and my sister & brother and law had unlimited access to the Adults Only side. It worked out fantastic because my husband and I didn’t have to compromise our choice in having an adults only resort. Our wedding coordinator Valeria that our travel agent chose for us was fantastic. She detailed out with pictures and prices all the options to make our wedding unique and fun. We had a private welcome reception with our guests the night prior to our wedding rather than having a rehearsal dinner. Our Travel Agent arranged this for us complimentary. It was a great way for our friends and family to all get to know each other, I definitely recommend going this route. Valeria was on point with all our details and kept an ongoing spreadsheet so we always knew where our budget was at. Our guests were all across the board in whether they wanted to relax or explore off the resort. Some just wanted to sit at the pool bar and soak up the sun while others wanted to explore. Our travel agent took care of each of our guests excursions as well as our group excursion (my husband and I planned a booze cruise for all our guests as a gift for coming) prior to departure. We are so very happy we chose El Dorado for our special day. After our return we received a credit based on the number of rooms booked. We actually forgot about this credit that we learned about in our initial planning stages and our Travel Agent sent us an email letting us know what our credit was going to be about a week after we returned. We were so stoked and we are going to save that money to put toward our Anniversary return visit to Casitas. Definitely go with a Travel Agent when going through the Destination Wedding process. It helped us to take the fear out of the “unknown”. A big shout out to Aimee from Island Getaways (aimee@myislandgetaways.com), she was awesome throughout our entire planning process and we could not have done it the way we did without her.

Honestly, it was like she knew every resort personally. She was excellent at getting us the most for within our budget, and always provided timely responses to our questions/concerns. She didn't even blinked as we got to the end of the planning process and had a minor glitch with one of our passports - she truly was wonderful. I do not, in anyway, hesitate to COMPLETELY recommend Angee for your travel planning needs.

a survey we had sent her on our honeymoon preferences. She found us the most perfect honeymoon spot at Sandals Emerald Bay! Angee was awesome to work with and was very responsive to our needs and questions. She also checked in with us before, during, and after our honeymoon to make sure we had a great time! We will most definitely use Angee's services when planning our next trip!