Fares, seats and connections. And the rebooking.
Chosen for how you travel, watched until you land, and fixed when an airline changes the plan.
The travel desk of Waypoint Journeys
Your Personal Travel Agent One message, the whole trip.
Flights, hotels, visas and transfers for any trip, planned and booked by the Waypoint Journeys team. Tell us where you need to be. We send options with every price shown, book the one you choose, and stay on it while you travel.
Team preview
Planning is free. When we book it, you pay the supplier’s price plus a 15% booking fee, shown on every quote. How pricing works
Planning is free. When you book, you pay the supplier’s price plus a 15% booking fee, shown on every quote. How pricing works
Things clients ask us for
- Rebook my 6am.
- A visa for Vietnam by the 3rd.
- A hotel I can walk to the venue from.
- A family of five to Lisbon in June.
- Get me to Socotra.
- A car at arrivals, please.
- Three cities in one week.
What we handle
What One Message Gets You
Every moving part of a trip, owned by one team that answers when something changes.
02 · Hotels
The room you would have picked.
Near where you need to be, with your preferences on file and the booking confirmed in writing.
03 · Visas
Paperwork, done early.
Entry rules checked for every country on the route, applications prepared and each deadline tracked.
04 · Schedule
- Car to the airport
- Flight, aisle seat
- Your meeting
Your days, built around what matters.
05 · On the road
Your 14:10 is two hours late. Car moved to 16:40, hotel told.
You are the best.
A real person, a message away.
06 · Off the map
And when the trip goes somewhere wild.
Socotra, Papua New Guinea, the Sahara. The Waypoint Journeys expedition team takes it from the last airport on.
See our expeditionsBuilt for
Frequent flyers
Back-to-back trips, handled while you work.
Families
Five passports, two rooms, one plan that works.
Executive assistants
Hand us the calendar and get your week back.
Expedition travelers
Between Waypoint expeditions, we plan the rest.
Watch us pack
Your Trip, Packed for You
- Passportchecked
- Flightsseat 2A
- Visastracked
- Hotelroom confirmed
- Itineraryon your phone
Every trip starts as a pile of loose ends. Watch them go in, one by one.
Passport checked against the entry rules for every country on the route.
Flights chosen for how you travel, with the rebooking handled if the airline changes the plan.
Visas and entry papers prepared, with every deadline on our calendar.
The room you would have picked, near where you need to be, confirmed in writing.
One itinerary on your phone, kept current, with a real person a message away.
Packed. Every booking confirmed, each at the price you approved.
Loaded. The car to the airport is booked with everything else, and waiting at the curb.
How it works
Four Stops, Three of Them Free
Send a Few Lines
Where, when and who, by the request form, email or WhatsApp. A few lines is enough to start.
FreeSee Every Price
Options for each flight, room and transfer at the supplier’s price, with our 15% fee on its own line.
FreeChange It Freely
Swap, move or rethink as often as you like. Nothing is booked until you approve it.
FreeWe Book and Stay On It
Confirmations go into one itinerary, and a person is a message away if plans change.
15% booking fee
Pricing
One Fee, Shown Up Front
Planning, quotes and revisions are free. When you book, you pay the supplier’s price plus our 15% booking fee, which includes card processing. Every quote shows both on separate lines before anything is booked.
You can also book a flight yourself: book it here, with a 6% booking fee already in every price you see.
A supplier’s own fees, such as an airline change fee or a visa fee, are passed on as charged. Waypoint Journeys expeditions carry no booking fee; the flights, nights and transfers we book around them carry the same 15%, as our Booking Terms set out.
- Planning
- Free
- Revisions
- Free
- Expeditions
- No fee
- Booking fee
- 15%
A $1,000 hotel stayYou pay $1,150
Already booked on an expedition?
We Can Book the Rest of Your Trip
Send us your expedition and dates. We plan the flights to the start, any nights before and after, and the connections home, all lined up with your itinerary.
- Flights that meet the start and the end
- Extra nights before or after
- Airport transfers and connections
- Visa paperwork for the route
Traveler Stories
Notes From Our Travelers
The Desk is new, but the team behind it is not. We plan the trips at Waypoint Journeys, and here is what four of our travelers have told us.
My husband taught school in the Marshall Islands with the Peace Corps in the late 1980s, and I wanted our grown kids to see where he lived. Waypoint planned a Christmas trip to the places in his old photo album, got in touch with his Peace Corps friend, and wrote the whole itinerary as a letter to my kids. It warms my heart that they will get to go where he was.
My travel agent booked my flight home with a stop in Kinshasa, and I never noticed. Waypoint did, months before the trip. That stop would have kept me from boarding my flight back to the US. They think of all the little details that can wreck a trip, and that is why you travel with a company like this on a trip like this.
Before Syria and Lebanon, part of me wondered whether this company was for real. I came home sure of it and booked South Sudan for January. Our guide in Syria was the best I have ever had, and for South Sudan they even added an extra day with the Dinka.
After Socotra I came back for the Three Guianas. I compared their plan with another company’s shorter tour and preferred theirs, especially the two nights in the Suriname interior. When I asked to cut the long travel days, they swapped the drive between Suriname and Guyana for a short flight and kept everything I cared about.
Questions
Good Questions, Plain Answers
Anything else, write to hello@wpjourneys.com or message us on WhatsApp.
What does Waypoint Desk cost?
Planning, quotes and revisions are free. When you book, you pay the supplier’s price plus our 15% booking fee, which includes card processing. A $1,000 hotel stay, for example, comes to $1,150.
Can I book a flight myself?
Yes. Book a flight searches the airlines and shows every fare with our 6% booking fee already in the price, and the booking takes a few minutes. If you would rather we book it, along with hotels and anything else, send a request: the booking fee is then 15%, and we look after the details for you.
Will I see the fee before I book?
Yes. Every quote shows the supplier’s price and our fee on separate lines, with the total. Nothing is booked until you approve it.
What if I decide not to book?
Then you owe nothing.
Why use Waypoint Desk instead of booking it myself?
For a simple trip, booking it yourself may be quicker. Waypoint Desk is for the trips with moving parts: several cities or travelers, visas, tight connections, or plans that may change. We compare the options and check every leg against the next, and when something changes after you book, you message us instead of calling each airline and hotel yourself.
Are airline and visa fees included?
A supplier’s own fees, such as an airline’s change fee or a government visa fee, are passed on as charged. We tell you about them before you book.
Is there a booking fee on Waypoint Journeys expeditions?
No. Expeditions are priced as listed. The booking fee applies to the flights, hotels and other arrangements we book for you.
Is this only for adventurous trips?
No. Business trips, family vacations and city weekends too. When you want to go further, the expedition team is here.
How do I start?
Send a request, email hello@wpjourneys.com or message us on WhatsApp. Tell us where you need to be, when, and who is traveling.
Start a request
Tell Us the Trip
A few lines is enough: where you need to be, when, and who is going. A member of our team replies by email with options and prices.
Run by the founders of Waypoint Journeys. Meet the team