An hour tells you whether an idea is sound. A week is how something actually gets built. For seven days I work on your journey the way I would on my own: reading, calling, discarding, writing back.
You can ask as often as you like — there is no cap on the writing. Calls are by arrangement, when a voice is faster than a paragraph. What you have at the end is not a brochure. It is a plan I would stand behind, with the reasoning left in — including the parts I talked you out of.
Seven days of advisory consultation with an independent travel advisor. You bring the journey — a trip you're weighing, a season you want to spend well, a plan that isn't holding together — and for a week I work on it with you in writing, with calls by arrangement. It is advice, not a booking. I do not sell you the hotel. I tell you which one, and why, and what it will actually be like on the third morning.
A written plan you can act on: where, when, in what order, and what to skip. The alternatives I considered and why I set them aside. The things worth paying for and the things that only look like they are. Where the plan is fragile, I say so. And if the honest answer turns out to be don't go yet, you get that too — in writing, with what I would do instead.
People planning something that matters enough to get right: a first long rest in years, a recovery, a birthday that shouldn't be improvised, a season abroad. It suits you if you'd rather have one considered opinion than forty browser tabs. It does not suit someone who wants the cheapest version of a fixed itinerary — that is a booking, and there are faster ways to do it.
A Working Week is CA$250–750. The figure depends on complexity — how many moving parts, how many people, how much has to be true at once. I quote it after a first conversation, once I know what I'm actually being asked to do. That conversation is free and there is no obligation at the end of it. If you have already paid for a Working Hour, the CA$50 comes off the week. The week is paid by card or bank transfer before it begins. Orophile is a registered Canadian practice (CBCA #1373422-6).
Seven days of advisory consultation with an independent travel advisor — written work with calls by arrangement, on one journey you're planning.
CA$250–750, set by complexity and quoted after a first conversation. A previously paid CA$50 Working Hour is credited against it.
Because the work isn't the same size every time. A single week away and a three-country recovery season are not the same problem. I'd rather quote you honestly once I've heard it than pretend they cost the same.
As often as you like. There is no cap on the writing. Calls are by arrangement so that the days stay usable for both of us.
You have the plan and it is yours. If you want me to keep going, we talk about that separately.
No. I'm a travel advisor, not a therapist. If what you need is real help, I'll say so and point you toward it.
CA$250–750 · seven days · quoted after a first conversation
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