What is a Mystery Vacation?
A mystery vacation is a trip you don’t have to plan. In fact, you will know very little about your trip until you arrive at the airport, train station, boat launch, or where ever we decide is the perfect place for you and your friends. Using a series of carefully developed surveys our mystery planners will gather your group preferences on travel, budget, dates, activities, lodging & and everything else we can think of: to create the perfect vacation. Once everyone commits to the date, approximate budget, we will book everything for the trip. Approximately two weeks before the trip, you and your friends will receive a package with the packing list, approximate departure time and location and some other surprises for your trip.
What's available?
We currently offer a couple of different options for your mystery vacations.
  • True Mystery - We do all the work for you. All you have to do is answer our surveys and and show up when and where we've decided.
  • The Planner - For those of you who aren't comfortable with having strangers plan your entire trip, you can designate a group planner who will work directly with us to help plan and organize the trip.
  • The New Friend - For an additional fee (travel, lodging, etc) your mystery planner will meet you at your destination and come along with you as a tour guide, organizer and new friend on your vacation.
  • What kind of trips are available?
    We'll plan anything from camping trip to week long resort stays. It's all up to the collective will of you and your friends based on the survey information we collect.
    How much does this cost?
    Every Mystery Vacation is unique, and it is nearly impossible to generalize the cost. Once we've gathered your information, we'll determine a few options and come up with an approximate budget, dates and payment schedule for your trip. A deposit will be required for each person attending the Mystery Vacation before anything is booked.
    Can I use my travel points?
    Unfortunately, in order to provide the full mystery vacation experience using travel points isn't generally possible. That said, if you're interested in using points to book parts of the trip and surprising your friends, we can work with that.
    What does a mystery vacation include?
    Mystery Vacations includes Travel to and from the destination(s), Lodging, Group Activities, Duck Viewing (Not guaranteed).
    Mystery Vacation does NOT include: Food, Alcohol, Passport Costs, Headlamp, Four Gallons of Cookie Dough, Touristy Trinkets and Emergency Room Visits.
    Who are the mystery planners?
    Steph likes to plan things. Ryan is very organized.
    Steph and Ryan started traveling together in 2010. Since then we have been to 3 continents, 6 countries, and countless states together. Our trips vary from weekend camping to exploring the mountains of Argentina to visiting the Taj Mahal. We love new places, new experiences and new people!