Trip Design is the custom trip planning service you deserve, brought to you by Mr Hudson. Save weeks of research and planning by letting one of Mr Hudson’s expert curators design the perfect trip for you, based on your personal preferences and putting our extensive destination knowledge into play.

Our process is simple; you answer a few questions about how you like to travel with our short online form and we then partner you up with one of our expert trip designers – the same team that brings you our Travel Guides and Stories. They work their magic, and within 5 to 10 business days, you’ll receive your tailored trip plan, overflowing with personalised recommendations on where to stay, what to see and do, where to eat, where to go out, and much more. With our Standard service, we provide direct links for speedy booking. With our Premium service, we handle all the booking and give you a single price for your unique trip while adding in a number of extras to make your trip special. Either way, your trip plan is available in your client account, displayed beautifully on both desktop and mobile devices, and includes a map for easy navigation. It’s like having your own fully customised travel guide at your fingertips.

We offer our Standard service for a flat rate of $49 per day of travel that you ask us to curate (we can design a specific part of your vacation or your entire trip). Our Premium service, meanwhile, takes all the hassle out of planning your trip by giving you a customised trip price, and handling all the bookings on your behalf.

For our Premium service, we require a non-refundable deposit to design your trip. 30% of the total cost of the trip will be paid upon confirming reservations, while the remaining 70% (less the deposit) will be due 15 days prior to departure. Unlimited revisions are included with our Premium service to ensure the perfect trip for your specifications. For our Standard service, we charge the full Trip Design amount upfront. But don’t worry, even with our Standard service we offer 1 complementary round of revisions.

Your trip plan is 100% tailored to your requirements, and for each destination includes:

1 – A choice of 3 fabulous accommodation options – these will be hotels or Airbnb lodgings depending on your preference.

2 – Nightlife suggestions, such as (gay) bars, clubs, parties, cocktail bars or wine bars.

3 – Recommendations for each day of travel, including 3 restaurants and 3 experiences (major attractions, art, culture, tours, classes, fitness activities, etcetera).

For our Premium service, you will receive your Trip Plan and all your trip documents within 10 business days after signing off our trip proposal. For our Standard service, you will receive your trip plan within 5 business days if its start date is within 2 weeks of submitting your order and your plan is for 10 days or less. In all other cases, you will receive your trip plan within 10 business days.

Your personal trip designer will go the extra mile to help you make smart decisions on where to go, what to prepare for and what to avoid. They will verify the open or closed status and sanitary measures of lodging providers and venues before curating your tailored trip itinerary. Also, we’ll keep you up to date on COVID-19 virus-related travel policies, from health certificate requirements to airport testing.

Not at all! Around a third of clients are female! We started Mr Hudson as a gay travel blog in 2016 and continue to create content with gay men in mind because it’s a community we’re intimately familiar with. That said, many other people enjoy our content, and we’re proud to have built a diverse community. Our Trip Design team is comprised of women and men who are widely travelled, well-versed in trip curation, and have a deep understanding of what makes people tick, ensuring that we offer the best possible advice to each of our clients. Our Trip Design service is for anyone who travels in style and looks to throw off the burden by pre-trip anxiety and those tedious days and weeks of destination research.

Totally! Each itinerary is one-of-a-kind and takes into account your personal tastes and unique requirements. We consider who you’re travelling with, what you would like to see and do, your food preferences, and more to build your perfect trip.

Because we give you a unique combination of local knowledge and recommendations from over 50 online sources, and do so with your particular needs in mind. Like anyone, we obsess over the latest online reviews and travel commentary. Offline, Mr Hudson has connections with folks on the ground who regularly visit many of the places we highlight and help us keep up-to-date on the best things a destination has to offer. We are uncompromising in our selection criteria for venues and experiences, and our trip designers have been trained to curate based on your individual preferences and tastes rather than their own.

Your itinerary will be modelled by the safe hands of one of our experienced trip designers – the very same team that brings you our Travel Guides and Stories.

If you read through all the places that Mr Hudson has published about, we’d like to think we cover the whole globe! We’re here to help build any trip you fancy, from city breaks to country itineraries and beach holidays. Our trip designers have a wide range of expertise. And if we don’t have the answer ourselves, we’re likely to know exactly who to call.

Nobody likes to be told what to do, particularly on holiday. So please consider your trip plan a tightly edited menu of options allowing you the freedom to mix and match. Our recommendations are limited enough not to overwhelm while also being generous enough to leave room for personal choice and the odd spontaneous flight of fancy.

Absolutely. Just let your trip designer know of any existing plans in your trip request form or via email or chat after connecting with us. We’ll work to bundle your existing plans with our tailor-made itinerary.

While most people enjoy the inspirational part of travel, doing destination research and planning trip logistics can be a real headache. Poor planning (or no planning) can also make the day-to-day on the ground feel more like work than like vacation. By trusting our expert curators to design the perfect trip for you, based on your own personal preferences and using our extensive destination knowledge, you’ll be spared a ton of time and unnecessary stress. We incorporate all your ideas and dreams into a plan that optimises your time and minimises your hassle.

We offer you the option to make bookings yourself with our Standard service (offering direct booking links to our recommendations). But we recommend our Premium service, which takes the guesswork out of the bookings and the final trip cost by leaving it all to Mr Hudson.

You can only use our Premium service if we book your hotel for you and unfortunately we cannot use coupons, vouchers, points, nights, miles or other loyalty programme rewards for this.