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From "I wish I could travel more" to "Where are we going next?" — that's what we do here.

Be everywhere.
Experience everything.
Keep the job that pays for it.

We have jobs we like. We take trips we like more. Somewhere along the way we figured out that these two things don't have to fight each other — turns out, with the right plan, you really can have both.

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Who we are

We're the couple that plans the next trip
on the flight home from the last one.

Hey, we're Santy & Ruchi! Two tech workers, one shared obsession — seeing the world and telling you all about it.

Every morning, before anything else, we open a flight app. Not to buy anything necessarily — just to look. To see what's possible, what's cheap this weekend, what city we haven't been to yet. Some people open their trading app. We do this.

We stopped thinking of travel as something we do when we've earned enough time off, and started treating it like the most important thing we're working toward. That shift changed everything. The trips got more frequent. The destinations got more interesting. The planning got better, because it had to. All while holding down full-time careers. The secret? Ruchi plans trips months in advance, squeezes every long weekend until it begs for mercy, and has a color-coded itinerary before Santy even knows where he is going next. Santy's contribution? Expertly packing the bags and getting to the airport early enough to crack open the first vacation-mode beer before the gate opens. It's a system and trust us, somehow it works!

At 35,000 feet on a 16-hour flight across the globe, we feel like kids on Christmas morning genuinely giddy about what's waiting on the other side. Because no YouTube video, travel reel, or friend's photo dump comes close to being there - hearing a language you don't speak, tasting something you can't pronounce, standing in front of something so beautiful it doesn't feel real. That's the feeling we're chasing, every single trip.

Welcome to VacayTips - pull up a chair, grab a drink, and let's get you somewhere amazing.

We love the simple things — food that's delicious and doesn't cost a fortune, sitting outside somewhere beautiful with a cold drink, hiking trails that make us feel accomplished.

50+
Countries
50
US States
40+
National Parks
0
Sabbaticals taken
Machu Pichu

How we do this

Three things that make every trip actually work.

1

The trip begins the moment you open your calendar.

We plan trips the way other people plan their finances — months out, obsessively, cross-referencing flights with public holidays and vacation days like it's a puzzle worth solving. Because it is. The best trips don't start at the airport. They start the moment you open your calendar and block the dates.

2

Go in curious. Come out converted.

We've never said no to a destination because it wasn't on someone else's list. We have said no to going unprepared — so we research everything. Food, opening hours, busy periods, local guides, what to skip, what everyone else skips that they shouldn't. By the time we land, we already know the city. We just haven't met it yet.

3

The trip should surprise you. The bill shouldn't.

Loyalty points, credit card deals, day-use hotel rooms for early arrivals, overnight trains that double as accommodation — we treat every trip like a logistics puzzle with a creativity bonus. Getting there comfortably without overpaying or overstaying is its own kind of travel skill. We are getting pretty good at it.

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Where we've been.
What we actually thought.

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