Alp started the way most good trips do: with friends asking. First for restaurant lists, then for itineraries, then — after one sixteen-person, three-island trip came off without a single argument about money or rooms — for everything. Somewhere in there it stopped being a favour and became the work.
I'm a Fora Pro advisor with Virtuoso access, which is the industry's way of saying the world's best hotels pick up the phone when I call, and my clients get treated accordingly: upgrades, credits, breakfasts, a general manager who knows their name on arrival. But the access is the easy part. The craft is the design — routing a Swiss trip so the trains do the sightseeing, sequencing Greek islands so the ferries cooperate, knowing which riad courtyard gets the afternoon sun.
I build itineraries the way I'd want to receive one: a document you'll actually keep, with the reasoning visible — why this hotel, why this order, why these three nights and not two. And then I stay on the trip with you, on WhatsApp, until you're home.
I travel constantly with my wife, Chanu — she has veto power on every honeymoon itinerary — and most of what I recommend, we've tested on ourselves first.
