Wanderlyx

Travel Co. · Est. 2009
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Handcrafted journeys since 2009

Go further than
the guidebook.

Small-group escapes and private itineraries across 62 countries, built around what you actually want to see — not what fits on a coach schedule.

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ATOL protected  ·  Free date changes  ·  4.9★ from 2,140 reviews

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Who we are

A small studio of travellers, not a booking counter.

Wanderlyx started in 2009 when three former tour leaders got tired of watching people photograph a place through a coach window. We build every itinerary the slow way — walking the route, eating at the family-run places, negotiating the permits ourselves.

Today we are a team of 34 across Vancouver, Lisbon and Chiang Mai. We still cap group departures at 12 people, and your advisor stays with you from the first email to the last transfer home.

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Why choose us

The difference shows up on day three.

Anyone can sell you a flight and a hotel. These are the six things travellers tell us they could not have arranged alone.

Capped at 12 travellers
Every group departure stops at twelve people. Restaurants say yes, guides remember your name, and nobody waits forty minutes for a bathroom stop.
Routes we walked ourselves
No itinerary goes on sale until a Wanderlyx lead has run it end to end in the same season you will travel. If it does not work in monsoon, we say so.
A human at 3am, anywhere
Missed connection in Doha, stomach bug in Cusco, passport left in a taxi. One number, answered by someone who can actually rebook you.
Money that stays local
On average 71 cents in every dollar reaches businesses inside the country you visit. We publish the breakdown for each trip, audited annually.
Change dates, not plans
Move your departure once, free, up to 30 days before travel. Life happens — a knee operation should not cost you a holiday.
Fully bonded, properly insured
ATOL and ABTA covered, with client funds held in trust until you fly home. Your money is never used to run our business.
Tour packages

Three journeys our travellers keep coming back for.

Prices are per person sharing, include all internal transport and guiding, and hold until 31 October.

Bali & the Nusa Islands
9 days from $2,480 — Ubud rice terraces, a night with a Sidemen weaving family, sunrise on Mount Batur and four days island-hopping to Nusa Penida. Departs monthly, 12 places.
Swiss Alps Rail Journey
7 days from $3,150 — Glacier Express in first class, two nights in Zermatt beneath the Matterhorn, a cheese dairy in Appenzell and free days to walk. No coaches, ever.
Maldives Overwater Escape
6 days from $4,090 — Overwater villa on a locally-owned atoll, two guided reef dives, a sandbank dinner and seaplane transfers both ways. Adults only, no fixed schedule.
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Destinations

Where our travellers are going this year.

Six regions with a Wanderlyx guide on the ground year-round. Every one can be run as a private departure for your own group.

Paris & the Loire
From $1,890 · 5–8 days. Left Bank walking, a private after-hours hour at the Rodin, then vineyards and chateaux by bicycle.
Dubai & the Empty Quarter
From $2,240 · 5–7 days. Skyline and souks for two days, then four hours south into the dunes for silence and Bedouin camp nights.
Iceland Aurora Chase
From $2,760 · 5 days, Oct–Mar. A meteorologist plans each night’s drive. Ice caves, black sand and a farmhouse with no light pollution.
Kenya Great Migration
From $4,380 · 8–10 days, Jul–Oct. Six guests per vehicle, conservancy camps outside the park gates, and Maasai-owned land fees paid direct.
Kyoto Cherry Blossom
From $3,420 · 8 days, late March. Ryokan nights, a tea ceremony with a ninth-generation family, and the temples at 6am before the crowds.
Santorini & the Cyclades
From $2,090 · 7 days. Caldera cave rooms, a fishing boat to Thirasia, and two quiet islands most itineraries skip entirely.
Travel services

Everything between your front door and the departure gate.

Book a full itinerary, or just the one piece you cannot face doing yourself. Every service below is available standalone.

Flights & rail ticketing
Fare-class specialists who will tell you when the cheap ticket is a false economy. Eurail, Japan Rail and Rovos bookings handled in-house.
Visas & documentation
We track entry rules across 62 countries daily and file the paperwork for you. Includes Schengen appointments and India e-Visa applications.
Stays we have slept in
A vetted list of 900 hotels, riads, ryokan and family guesthouses. If it is on our list, someone from the team has spent a night there.
Insurance that pays out
Policies underwritten for adventure activities and pre-existing conditions, with a claims team we can call directly on your behalf.
Transfers & private drivers
Named driver, plate number and a WhatsApp thread sent 48 hours before landing. No hunting for a sign in an arrivals hall at midnight.
Group & incentive travel
Weddings, reunions and company offsites from 14 to 140 people, with one coordinator, one invoice and a dedicated booking portal for guests.
How it works

Four steps, one advisor, no call centre.

Most travellers go from first email to confirmed itinerary in under nine days. Nothing is charged until you approve the final route.

01  Tell us the shape of it
A 20-minute call or a long email, whichever you prefer. Dates, budget, who is coming, and the one thing you would be sad to miss.
02  We draft two routes
Within four working days you get two costed itineraries — the one you asked for, and the one we would book ourselves. Revise freely.
03  Lock it in
A 20% deposit holds everything, balance due 45 days out. Funds sit in a trust account, and one free date change is included.
04  Go — we stay on call
Printed and offline-ready documents, a local SIM waiting at your first hotel, and your advisor reachable on one number for the whole trip.
Special offers

Three deals live until 31 October.

Real reductions on real departures — not a marked-up price with a red line through it. Quote the code when you enquire.

Save $520 — Bali, Nov & Jan
Two remaining departures on the 9-day Nusa Islands route drop to $1,960 per person. Code WLX-BALI520. Four places left across both dates.
Second traveller half price
Book any Europe itinerary for two and the second person pays 50%. Applies to Paris, Santorini and the Swiss rail route. Code WLX-DUO50.
Free aurora night extension
Every Iceland booking made before 31 October gets a sixth night at the Fljotsdalur farmhouse at no cost. Code WLX-AURORA6.
Offers close 31 October

Someone is on the beach next February. It may as well be you.

Send us your dates and we will hold a place, free, for seven days while you think it over.

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Testimonials

2,140 reviews. Here are three we did not edit.

Verified through Trustpilot and collected 30 days after each traveller returns home.

I have booked Japan twice before and always felt like I was queueing. Wanderlyx had us at Kiyomizu-dera at 6.10am with maybe nine other people, then a tea ceremony with a family who have done it for nine generations. The difference was not luxury — it was timing, and knowing who to ask.
Priya Raghunathan Kyoto Cherry Blossom, March 2026
Our connection out of Amsterdam collapsed and I called the emergency line at 2.40am expecting a recording. Someone called Marta answered, had us on a Nairobi flight eleven hours later and moved the first camp night without charging us. That is the whole review, really.
Daniel Okonkwo Kenya Great Migration, August 2025
Twelve of us, no coach, and three completely free days that I initially thought were a cop-out. They were the best part. Our guide gave us four options each morning and then left us alone. I came back rested, which has never once happened on a guided trip.
Hannah Vogel Swiss Alps Rail Journey, June 2025
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Tell us where you are going. We will do the rest.

Every enquiry goes to a named advisor, not a queue. You will hear back within one working day with two costed routes, and nothing is charged until you say yes.

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Questions & answers

The things people ask before they book.

If yours is not here, call us on +1 604 555 0188 — a real advisor picks up, Monday to Saturday.

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A 20% deposit confirms your places and the balance is due 45 days before departure. Deposits sit in a client trust account until you travel — we never use them as working capital. For bookings made inside 45 days the full amount is payable, and we will always tell you before you commit.

Every booking includes one free date change up to 30 days before departure, moved to any departure within 18 months. After that we pass on only what our suppliers charge us, with the invoice attached so you can see it. There is no Wanderlyx admin fee at any point.

Roughly a third of our group travellers come alone. We will pair you with a same-sex roommate at no extra cost if you would like one, and if we cannot find a match we absorb the single supplement ourselves. On private itineraries the room is yours and priced accordingly.

Each itinerary carries a one-to-five effort rating with the actual numbers — daily walking distance, altitude, number of steps, longest transfer. Santorini is a two, the Kenya migration a two, the Swiss rail journey a three, and our Patagonia routes a four. Your advisor will be honest if a trip is not right for you.

All accommodation, all internal transport, all guiding, all entrance fees, breakfast daily and any meal listed on the day-by-day. International flights are quoted separately so you can use points if you prefer. Tips are already paid to guides and drivers at a fair rate — you are never asked for an envelope at the end.

Every fare carries a mandatory levy of 1.5% split between Gold Standard removal credits and a community fund in the destination itself — last year that funded a water filtration plant in Sidemen and ranger salaries in the Mara North Conservancy. We publish the full allocation each January, audited by an outside firm.

Contact

Three ways to reach a real advisor.

Walk in, call, or write. Whichever you pick, the same person handles your trip from start to finish.

Visit the studio
214 Harbour Row, Suite 5, Vancouver, BC V6C 2K1, Canada. Drop in Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm, or book a planning hour with coffee on us.
Call +1 604 555 0188
Advisors answer Monday to Saturday, 8am to 9pm Pacific. Travellers already on the road get a separate 24-hour emergency line in their documents.
hello@wanderlyx.com
Written enquiries are answered within one working day, and always by a named person rather than a ticket number. Attach photos, links, anything.
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