🧠 The Melissa Method

The details you don’t know to ask about can make the biggest difference.

Planning a great vacation isn’t just about choosing a destination, resort, or cruise ship. It’s about understanding how all the pieces will actually work together once you’re there.

That’s where The Melissa Method comes in.

Before I recommend a vacation, I research the details that can affect your experience. I look beyond the beautiful photos and marketing descriptions to understand what a trip will really be like for you.

That might mean comparing room locations and layouts, researching resort construction, looking at walking distances and transportation logistics, checking cruise ship differences, evaluating excursions, understanding crowd patterns, or figuring out whether an upgrade is actually worth the money.

Sometimes it means researching something incredibly specific because it matters to one particular traveler. And sometimes it means recommending something completely different from what you originally had in mind.

I combine firsthand travel experience, professional training, research, and what I learn from planning vacations for real clients to help you make decisions with more confidence.

Because my job isn’t simply to book the vacation you ask for.

It’s to help you plan the vacation that’s right for you.