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A selection of trips, stays, and experiences designed with intention: from World Marathon Major travel to European escapes to wellness-forward city itineraries. Each one was built around a specific person, a specific pace, and a specific purpose.
Every itinerary here began with a conversation about how someone wanted to feel, not just where they wanted to go. The destinations are beautiful. The planning is invisible. The results speak for themselves.
Clients who came home
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What the client needed: A first family trip, with all the weight that carries. Their daughter was 19 months old, their nerves were real, and their wish list was quietly ambitious: somewhere that felt like an escape, with a beach, space to play, and enough breathing room for two parents to exhale. The Caribbean was on the table, then off it. What remained was the need for something that still felt far away — without actually being far. Direct flights. A peaceful retreat. And somewhere their daughter could splash around while they remembered what it felt like to just be.
What we designed: a beachfront villa within the continental US that delivered every bit of the getaway they were imagining, without the international travel complexity that would've added stress to an already tender milestone. The property had direct beach access, a water park suited perfectly for a toddler, and tennis for the moments they wanted something just for them. High-end without the price point that would've made them hesitate. Every logistical detail was handled in advance so the first morning they woke up there, there was nothing to figure out. Just the trip.
What she said when she got home:
"I can’t thank Lauren enough for helping us plan our first family trip - this trip was so meaningful to us but we were nervous too flying with our 19 month old for the first time, we went through a few options and Lauren was thoughtful and supportive in helping us work through what made the most sense for us… Every detail was thought of, down to the infant car seat we needed for our rental car and a crib in the room.”
— nichole h.
ESSENTIAL SATURDAY, capitva island: Five Days of Ease
What the client needed: World Marathon Major travel requires a different kind of planning. The hotel has to work around the race — the finish line, the pre-race rest, the post-race recovery — and then around the city. Get it wrong and you spend the trip depleted. Get it right and you leave with one of the most memorable experiences of your life.
What we designed: accommodations chosen specifically for their relationship to the marathon route, with preferred partner perks secured ahead of arrival. Recovery days built into the itinerary before sightseeing began. The right neighborhood, the right room, the right rhythm for an athlete crossing a finish line in a city she'd never visited.
A note on this one: I've run five of the seven World Marathon Majors myself. This kind of travel isn't something I plan from the outside, I plan it from the finish line.
"Lauren far exceeded expectations with this booking. She helped to select the perfect location for the marathon finish, yet still accessible to other areas of Tokyo. The added perks and amenities were a bonus to add to the overall experience to ensure a stress-free start to the vacation."
— Amy T.
WORLD MARATHON MAJOR TRAVEL Tokyo
What the client needed: World Marathon Major travel requires a different kind of planning. The hotel has to work around the race — the finish line, the pre-race rest, the post-race recovery — and then around the city. Get it wrong and you spend the trip depleted. Get it right and you leave with one of the most memorable experiences of your life.
What we designed: accommodations chosen specifically for their relationship to the marathon route, with preferred partner perks secured ahead of arrival. Recovery days built into the itinerary before sightseeing began. The right neighborhood, the right room, the right rhythm for an athlete crossing a finish line in a city she'd never visited.
A note on this one: I've run five of the seven World Marathon Majors myself. This kind of travel isn't something I plan from the outside, I plan it from the finish line.
What the client needed: a couple who knew they wanted Prague but weren't sure what version of Prague was theirs. Not a checklist trip. Not the same itinerary anyone could find on Google. Something that felt designed for them.
What we designed: multiple options at every stage — accommodations, restaurants, experiences — filtered through their stated preferences, not a generic "best of" list. Options that reflected how they actually wanted to move through a city: slowly, with good food, with time to linger.
The result:
"Lauren was wonderful to work with. She really took our preferences into account when designing itineraries and options for our trip. We were given multiple options to choose from for accommodations, food, and places to see, all of which were based on our likes and dislikes. Couldn't have asked for a better person to work with — looking forward to working with her again."
— Linde M.
CUSTOM SATURDAY, ITINERARY DESIGN: Prague
What the client needed: a couple who knew they wanted Prague but weren't sure what version of Prague was theirs. Not a checklist trip. Not the same itinerary anyone could find on Google. Something that felt designed for them.
What we designed: multiple options at every stage — accommodations, restaurants, experiences — filtered through their stated preferences, not a generic "best of" list. Options that reflected how they actually wanted to move through a city: slowly, with good food, with time to linger.
The result:
This trip was something I designed for my own reset and applying the same principles I use with clients to my own nervous system after a stretch of hard work. It's also one of the clearest illustrations of how a Born on a Saturday itinerary is sequenced.
The framework: two cities, two intentions, one experience that builds on itself.
THE METHODOLOGY IN
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San Francisco: Elevated and Grounding
Base: 1 Hotel San Francisco was chosen as much for its ethos as its location, allowing you to get where you need to quickly for work meetings. At the end of the day, retreat to Bamford Wellness Spa for organic treatments, CBD mineral soaks, and rooftop stone tubs overlooking the bay.
Napa: The Nervous System Reset
Get out of the city into fresh air. Enjoy early morning hikes. Geothermal pools and volcanic ash mud baths at Spa Solage. A pace that a nervous system can actually use.
This is the sequencing I design for: the right property, the right recovery protocol, in the right order, so the trip serves you instead of costing you. I test this on myself first. Then I bring it to clients.
San Francisco + Napa: Recovery Built In
Every property recommendation comes from firsthand experience or deep research and never from a list. These are a few of the stays that have informed recent itinerary design.
New York
Morning light. Quiet neighborhoods. The particular calm of a city that moves fast but, if you find the right hotel in the right pocket of it, lets you move slow.
The Properties Behind the Itineraries
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Tokyo
Skylines that remind you how small and how alive you are. A city that rewards the traveler willing to slow down long enough to actually see it.
palm springs
Air that slows your pulse on arrival. The desert as a nervous system reset. A destination that keeps appearing in wellness itineraries for a reason.
paris
A view that makes even coffee feel ceremonial. The kind of city where your morning routine becomes something worth protecting.
Different cities. Same intention. Every stay is chosen for how it feels:
always feels like
THE BORN ON A
Saturday
A Born on a Saturday itinerary is built around how you want to feel, and the routines and practices that matter to you. Less about maximizing hours. More about optimizing energy.
What that looks like in practice:
- Accommodations chosen for quiet, light, and wellness alignment, not just ratings
- Pacing with intentional breathing room, not back-to-back obligations
- Preferred partner access through Fora Travel that includes upgrades, spa credits, VIP arrival treats
- Recovery built in as a design element, not an afterthought
- A plan that reflects who you actually are, not who a generic traveler is
- The result is travel that feels restorative, not exhausting. You'll still see beautiful things, eat exceptional meals, and have moments worth remembering, just never at the cost of your wellbeing.
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If you travel constantly and keep coming home more depleted than when you left, or if you simply want your next trip to feel as good as it looks, this is what I do.
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