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The Citrine Compass is a boutique travel planning agency that was founded to help busy, sophisticated world explorers create authentic travel experiences.

Our team provides full service travel planning, curated itineraries and incredible travel guides with the intel of local suppliers, industry experts and tastemakers.

We're your secret travel weapon, whether you need local recommendations, a custom itinerary or concierge-style travel planning handled for you by our team.

The Architect is your quick hitter for curated insider recommendations. You’ll fill out our Travel Questionnaire so we know about your travel style, budget and preferences and we’ll put together a tailored-to-you list of recommendations.

You can choose to receive recommendations on Food + Bev (restaurants, cafes, bars, lounges), Stays (boutique hotels, B&Bs, inns) and/or Experiences (suggested activities and things to explore).

Your Tastemaker will put together a personalized PDF in ~5 days or less.

Either before or after you purchase The Ace, you’ll fill out The CC Travel Questionnaire, which serves as a base to build off of in your consultation. Our goal is to maximize our time together and the more we know about your travel style and vision for this particular trip, the better the experience will be!

You will then set up a 45-min virtual consultation with our founder, Kalyn Salinas, as your Lead Tastemaker to discuss your trip goals and put together a basic trip outline that you’re excited about. If Kalyn throws some interesting options your way, you can absolutely take time to research and make a decision on your final trip outline before moving to the itinerary-building phase.

Kalyn will then work with a local network of Tastemakers, suppliers and networking contacts to build your initial itinerary and curate options for accommodations, activities and excursions, day trips, restaurants, experiences, transfers and more. Once that itinerary has your stamp of approval, we will take action and make the bookings. For any flights that occur during your trip, we will assist in researching flight options for you (as that is a key part of building a seamless itinerary) however our team is unable to book flights. We are always happy to connect our clients with our preferred flight desk that can book flights for an additional fee.

With The Ace, you also have access to The CC’s insider perks such as room upgrades, complimentary breakfast for two, spa and food & beverage credits and more for certain hotels.

The Ace is highly curated to your personal trip needs and our custom proposal takes into account how much support you need, the size of the group traveling, duration of the trip, complexity of logistics and how quickly you need the trip executed. Reach out to us here to learn more!

If you’re traveling somewhere that you don’t see listed in our Destinations, fill out our New Destination Form and we will reach out to you ASAP.

Our criteria is simple: Our Tastemakers know their city inside and out, have an amazing taste level and are passionate about helping others travel their town or region like a local. Most of our Tastemakers are working professionals that have an entrepreneurial mindset and are advising clients after hours because they love it!

We would love to meet you! Reach out via our Contact Us page to learn more about the benefits of being a Tastemaker including competitive pay, flexible hours and growth opportunity with a rapidly scaling, female-founded start-up.