Specializing in the art of travel, we work with small groups, executives, families, and couples to plan for their most precious asset – their time while on vacation. Our clients come to us for anything from weekend hotel bookings to around the world trips.
When it comes to experiencing the best in travel, it is mostly who you know. Joy Simeonova uses her insider connections in the industry to add value to your vacation. They allow her to customize your trips with exclusive access and extras wherever your journey takes you. She is not only saving you 20-60 hours of planning time, but also finding experiences you didn’t even know existed. Everything she does is bespoke to you, based on her extensive personal travels around the world, as well as the tens of thousands of hours she spent in planning unique destination experiences.
Joy identifies and fosters relationships with extraordinary suppliers worldwide in pursuit of the extraordinary, with the ultimate goal of arranging more authentic, memorable and sustainable travel for her clients.
In addition, she personally inspects the destinations and the properties that the world’s most discerning travelers desire, so that she can flawlessly advise her clients. She listens to what you, your partner, or your family envision your journey to be, and then makes recommendations that will suit your tastes, interests, and budget.
Our clients place more value on the experience than price alone. Our service fees are worth their weight in gold and our clients concur that the extra amenities and upgrades alone more than off-set the nominal cost. Joy personally knows our global suppliers and they tirelessly go the extra mile for Bon Vivant Journeys’ clients.
EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS
In addition to Joy's vast experience, personalized service, and her passion for travel, you benefit from additional advantages from our partnerships with the most discerning and coveted hotels, villas, yachts, cruise lines, private aviation, and luxury consortiums around the globe. Through her affiliation with Travel Experts, Joy is a member of Virtuoso, a by-invitation-only network of the world's leading travel consultants.
HOTEL, RESORT, AND SAFARI STAYS
Receive additional amenities and value adds such as spa credits, food and beverage vouchers, room upgrades, early check-in & later check-out, and priority waitlist.
CRUISES, EXPEDITIONS AND PRIVATE YACHTS
Receive complimentary benefits, pre- and post-cruise trips, private shore excursions.
INSIDER ACCESS AND AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES
Joy's close relationships with the world's leading travel and adventure companies and hand-selected country partners in every corner of the world ensures a unique, unforgettable experience and a local friend wherever you travel.
COVETED PERKS
Some of our clients ask about the advantage of using their American Express card for their travel bookings. In most cases, Bon Vivant Journeys offers our clients better perks through our own preferred partner programs with hundreds of hotels around the world. Additionally, our personal relationships with hotel owners and general managers result in added amenities, upgrades, and space clearing when it often appears impossible. We guide our clients to the right hotel via firsthand knowledge and experience.
VILLAS AND APARTMENTS
We have a spectacular network of villa providers around the world. We do not work with consumer rental web sites such as VRBO or AirBNB and only use accredited local brokers who visit and maintain their villas to vet and preserve quality control.
PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS
In order to ensure the quality and seamless coordination of all trip components, we arrange touring, concierge services, dining, transportation, and personal recommendations in conjunction with lodging reservations and provide full trip coordination as part of a fully curated itinerary.