Blue Egg Travel takes flight in Steamboat Springs creating soulful, genuine experiences for purchasers

On the Blue Egg Travel web site, proprietor Robin Merrill describes herself as a luxurious journey designer who makes use of her journey expertise to craft soulful, genuine journeys for purchasers.

“I think the biggest thing for me is creating experiences,” Merrill stated. “I don’t just get my clients a ticket into Japan — I will find out who is doing food tours, who’s doing dinners with a geisha, who are who is doing the anime museum tours, and I bring that back to my client to decide. Then we go from there and we plan the whole thing from day one to the end of the trip.”

Merrill began Blue Egg Travel in January 2025, providing journey journey, cruises, rail journeys, luxurious journey and group journeys. She stated her love of journey started in childhood.

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“My whole background has been in travel,” Merrill stated. “I was a flight attendant in my 20s, and I traveled with my parents from age 10.”

Her dad and mom traveled the world, usually visiting off-the-beaten-path locations and connecting with native communities.

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“They traveled in the 1950s and were in places that people just never got into because they liked to connect to the locals in those places. When they went on vacation, they saw a chance to meet people on a different level.”

Merrill hopes to hold on her dad and mom’ since of journey with Blue Egg Trevel in a time when journey to lots of the locations her dad and mom visited has develop into simpler.

“Now you can get into those places …  places you couldn’t really get into back then,” Merrill stated.  “They just went in the back door, and it wasn’t really a mission or anything like that I did — they were just very adventurous, kind souls.”

At Blue Egg Travel, Merrill helps purchasers journey with out the stress of planning whereas creating alternatives to attach with native individuals, tradition and traditions.

 “What sets Blue Egg apart, is that I really connect with the individual with the places they are visiting,” Merrill stated.

She begins with and interview to seek out out the place her purchasers need to go, how a lot they need to spend, the scale of the occasion they’re touring and the dates for the journey.

“I interview them first, and we talk about all that, but really I think the biggest part, for me, is creating experiences,” Merrill stated.

Merrill stated her experiences touring together with her dad and mom, working as a flight attendant and dealing as a registered nurse, which she nonetheless does half time,  taught her the right way to perceive purchasers’ wants.

“That experience of working with people, working with patients and knowing what people need is huge,” Merrill stated. “I understand how to troubleshoot, repair it the issues and design a trip — I match proper into this profession to not point out my love for journey.

When she begins planning, she takes a deep dive the choices, the hidden treasures of the areas her purchasers need to discover and the must-see points of interest these space provides. He aim is to create a one-of-a-kind expertise that meets her purchasers needs. Once that’s completed, she packages the holiday and presents her purchasers with a day-to day itinerary. She additionally makes positive the entire particulars — from securing a passport to getting the wanted vaccinations and insurance coverage and an itinerary full with occasions, dates and locations.

She additionally complies a traveler’s guidelines and supplies sources that can educate her purchasers in regards to the locations they may quickly go to. She additionally makes positive her purchasers are prepared for any emergency, had a listing of contacts in the event that they run into points whereas touring.

“Today travelers have a zillion decisions to make,” Merrill stated. “On top of that the world is expanding, and today you can go to all these different places. It’s becoming very complex, very hard and not everybody wants to go online to book because it’s so complicated, it’s so time consuming and it can be very overwhelming.”

Merrill stated her function is to make journey simpler, safer and extra rewarding for purchasers. Her web site provides options, journey ideas, sources, tales and a gallery from her personal travels. She can be launching a publication, the Roost Report, that included vacation spot highlights, native consumer tales, important journey ideas and the Blue Egg Travel Travel Blog. Anyone can subscribe to the Roost Report at BlueEggTravel.com by scrolling to the underside of the house web page.

“Travel advisors now have access to all that through the internet, through our partnerships around the world, so we can book for you, create the trip for you, set up all the excursions and present our clients with a, itinerary at the end — It’s  like, “Here you go. Done.”