Retreat Planning For Coaches, Authors, Teachers & Facilitators!
Creating a retreat can be a lot of work, for sure — especially planning and negotiating with the retreat center or hotel! And if you are planning an actual itinerary where you’re traveling from hotel to hotel and require transport, guides, and group activities — that can be even more daunting!
But don’t let that stop you from creating your dream retreat — Ales Struna is here!
Ales is our Director of Custom & Group Travel Specialist here at Journeys of the Spirit® Travel company, and he knows retreats!
We’ve been planning retreats and journeys for facilitators since 2003, and we know what works and what doesn’t — plus, we have the connections you need world-wide to plan the PERFECT retreat, with activities that will make you shine as a trip leader.
Ales knows how to plan a retreat that your tribe will be talking about for years!
- Wondering how you’ll ever find the time for all the little details that go into planning your retreat logistics like location, accommodations and itinerary?
- Do you need help finding the perfect location and venue for your retreat?
- Is negotiating with retreat centers, hotels, transportation, and tour operators outside of your skill set?
- Do you dislike the task of creating legal trip forms, registering people, and dealing with tons of calls from folks?
- Would you rather totally delegate the tasks of collecting funds and registration forms?
- Would you love to have a world-class travel agent available for you AND your clients from planning to reservations to on the retreat itself?
If so, Ales can help with what’s ailing you!
Thank you for everything you did for us – you helped make this trip possible, and you helped make it super easy for me to put together the trip of a lifetime. And the champagne that each hotel had for us for our honeymoon was a pleasant surprise, thank you. I will unequivocally recommend you.
Ales, What are my options?
Ultimate Retreat Leader Planning Package
Want a custom-crafted to-die-for itinerary drawn up for your retreat?
Don’t want to deal with booking accommodations, tour guides or activities?
Ready to pass off collecting money and forms from your participants?
AND want to have your retreat insurance and Seller of Travel worries covered?
The Ultimate Retreat Leader Planning Package just made your retreat planning to-do list shrink down to a very manageable size since we’ll be taking care off all the details of managing your retreat for you!
This VIP Package includes:
Custom Crafted Itinerary
- Access to our vault of knowledge to unearth your ideal destination perfect accommodations and unusual activities so your retreat will be unique (whew!)
- Customized day-by-day detailed itinerary from your accommodations to transportation and activities (now that was easy!)
- Fine-tuning and Flourishes Follow-Up Call to review any changes to your dream retreat
Stress-Free Participant Registration Service - Totally delegate the tasks of sending out and collecting all your clients’ registration and legal forms, emergency contact info, and flight information
- Don’t worry about receiving or following up on payments (we do that for you!)
- Save hours by having us answering your client’s travel questions
No Worry Bookings
- Unearth the perfect location and venue for your retreat
- Negotiate accommodations and transportation (at the very best prices!)
- Finding fitting activities and/or tours
- Finding optimal transportation options
- Making and confirming reservations for all arrangements: transportation, tours, activities, restaurants as well as additional experiences like spa treatments.
- Book trusted, reliable operators, guides, activities (breathe a sigh of relief – we know experts all over the world!)
- Handle payments for all our operators, guides and accommodations
Help Hotline 24-hour Support
- Resolve any unexpected flight delays, transportation or accommodation snafus or itinerary changes during your retreat (occasionally they do happen!) so you can focus on your clients
- Available 24 hours via phone/email for emergencies
Seller of Travel & Retreat Insurance Coverage
- Be legally covered through our fully protected and insured travel agency – no need to get your own retreat insurance or worry about Seller of Travel laws!
Trip Cancellation Insurance and Medical Insurance Coverage
- Ensure your participants are fully covered with Trip Cancellation and Medical Insurance – we’ll arrange it all for them!
The Details:
Package includes unlimited 1:1 support to answer your questions and plan the retreat of your dreams via email or by phone. You’ll have the added benefit of unlimited follow-up emails to guarantee that you and your participants are good to go!
ULTIMATE RETREAT LEADER PACKAGE
Your initial investment for Ultimate Retreat Leader Planning Package: $880 USD (non-refundable)
After itinerary is finalized and confirmed by you: $750 USD non-refundable deposit toward your trip expenses, which is applied to the total trip cost. Once this amount is paid, we’ll confirm all arrangements for your retreat and hold all services for you. (This amount is like a security deposit and will be returned to you once your retreat is going ahead. If you have to cancel your retreat we will be happy to reapply this amount as a deposit towards a future retreat)
Due at trip departure date: $490 per person is already included in the quoted total participant trip cost (This amount is not paid by you, the retreat leader). If there are less than 4 travelers, the fee of 4 travelers will be applied. If the trip is cancelled by you, this amount will not be charged.
Need helping figuring out which package is right for you?
Book Your Complimentary 20-Minute Retreat Leader Travel Consultation.
Peace of Mind Retreat Leader Package
Don’t need help with your itinerary or bookings but want to pass off collecting money and forms?
Want to make sure you are covered for Seller of Travel Laws and Retreat Insurance?
Our Peace of Mind Package is perfect if you feel confident about arranging and negotiating your accommodations, transportation, guides and activities but want to avoid the hassle of all the paperwork and accounting and save hours and hours time!
This package includes:
Stress-Free Participant Registration Service
- Totally delegate the task of sending out and collecting all your clients’ registration and legal forms, emergency contact info, and flight information
- Don’t worry about receiving or following up on payments (we do that for you!)
- Save hours by having us answering your client’s travel questions
Seller of Travel & Retreat Insurance Coverage
- Be legally covered through our fully protected and insured travel agency – no need to worry about Seller of Travel laws!
Trip Cancellation Insurance and Medical Insurance Coverage
- Ensure your participants are fully covered with Trip Cancellation and Medical Insurance – we’ll arrange it all for them!
The Details:
Package includes 1:1 support to familiarize us with your trip and answer any questions via email. You’ll have the added benefit of unlimited emails support throughout the process of working and managing your trip.
Your initial investment for Peace of Mind Retreat Leader Package: $980 USD (non-refundable)
When retreat page is online: $750 USD non-refundable deposit toward your trip expenses, which is applied to your total trip cost. (This amount is like a security deposit and will be returned to you once your retreat is going ahead. If you have to cancel your retreat we will be happy to reapply this amount as a deposit towards a future retreat)
Due at trip departure date: $380 per person including facilitator that you add into your total participant trip cost. If there are less than 4 travelers, the fee of 4 travelers will be applied.
If you retreat is 4 nights or less, the per person amount is reduced to $ 290 per person, including facilitators.
Need helping figuring out which package is right for you?
Book Your Complimentary 20-Minute Retreat Leader Travel Consultation.
The Perfect Itinerary
- Save hours of researching online to find the perfect destination, accommodations, tours, guides and all other travel-related services.
- One full hour of 1:1 support to familiarize me with your trip and answer any questions via Zoom or phone. During this time you and I will discuss different options and hone in on the destination and services that are just right for you. All follow up communication will be done by email until the itinerary is approved by you. You’ll also have the added benefit of an additional hour of consultation time if needed.
- If you decide to use my services for either my “Ultimate Retreat Leader Package” or my “Peace of Mind Package,” I will apply the payment you make for this service towards either of those two other packages’ initial fee as long as the itinerary which was created, is used for the group journey or retreat.
- If you would like to create two or more itineraries to compare several destinations, I’ll be happy to do so for a discounted rate of $475 for any additional itinerary created by me.
Your investment for The Perfect Itinerary: $880 USD (non-refundable)
Need helping figuring out which package is right for you?
Book Your Complimentary 20-Minute Retreat Leader Travel Consultation.
We can’t thank you enough for the outstanding job you did for us. Your continued responsiveness and the level of customer service you provided us, helped make our trip as memorable as could be. We will not hesitate to recommend you to everyone we know.
Wondering if you’re covered for Seller of Travel Laws and Insurance?
Whenever you collect payments for accommodations, transportation, food and other travel services from your retreat participants, you become a “Seller of Travel” for which there are strict rules and guidelines in most countries.
If you use our travel agency, you no longer need to worry about legally running your retreat.
- Since we sell on the internet we follow the guidelines for Tour Operators in all 50 states in the US.
- We are a licensed tour operator in all the states that have special requirements: Florida, Washington, California, Iowa and Hawaii.
- We can take care of trip insurance for your participants
- We have been members of the Better Business Bureau online since 3/2008 with an A+ rating.
- We are members of the major travel organizations
Are you ready start planning your retreat with us?
Schedule a 20 minute complimentary call with Ales!
On this call via phone of Skype, we will:
- Hone in on your vision and vibe for your retreat
- Determine which of our services will save you time – and lessen your stress
- Whip up a travel planning support plan so you can say goodbye to overwhelm and focus on what you do best – teaching and coaching!
After our complimentary call together there are many ways we can assist you, and we offer many levels of service. We customize our packages perfectly to fit with what YOU need in your business which are listed below.
Book Your Complimentary Retreat Leader Travel Consultation
JOTS® Is A Full-Service Boutique Travel Company
We’re excited you’ve found us and that you’re considering using our expertise to create your next life-changing journey! We help retreat leaders to design trips you and your participants will never forget!
Please also know that we not only design retreats — we can also plan your personal travel!
We believe that experiential travel is awe inspiring, soul stirring, heart opening, fun and above all, life changing.
It’s our passion here at JOTS® to design itineraries that allow us to touch the hearts of others, interact, learn, expand our consciousness, and grow from our connections with other cultures and people.
For us, this is the only way we can truly understand and have compassion for others — and, in the end, create a peace-filled world. Perhaps you feel the same way…
If you’d like to visit our official travel agency sites you can find us:
www.journeysofthespirit.com and www.luxurytraveljourneys.com