The thought of a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Chile has left you with a severe bout of itchy feet.

You’re raring to go, scouring the internet for route maps, Trip Advisor recommendations, hints and tips for planning an unforgettable vacation in Chile.

And them boom: planning overwhelm hits hard.

You wish you could talk to the guidebook author herself.

Well, you can.

• What if you had an expert on hand to answer every single question you ever had about your trip? Worried that the information you’ve found online isn’t correct and wishing you had an expert who could help solve all those nagging queries and niggling worries that are keeping you from fully looking forward to your vacation?
• Wouldn’t you love to have personal recommendations from an expert, whose opinion you trust? How about a complete range of suggestions covering everything from luxury hotels to charming, locally-owned guesthouses, fine-dining restaurants to oh-so-local market stalls and the safest and most reputable tour operators?
• What if you knew you didn’t have to spend hours planning your vacation? Imagine having an expert on hand to make recommendations for planning your trip or tweaking your existing itinerary, helping you create a once-in-a-lifetime itinerary that is unique to you, your travel style and your dream vacation?

My travel itinerary planning service is for you

The magic of my Chile trip planner service is that it’s a fully bespoke service, where we chat through your questions and ideas to help you put together a once-in-a-lifetime itinerary, custom-designed for you and your vacation or extended trip.

• No more scouring the internet and playing truth or fiction about bus timetables.
• No more negotiating fees in the thousands of dollars with travel agents who you know are charging you more than it would cost to do it yourself.
• No more wasting hours of your valuable time trying to figure out a logical, time-efficient and financially-sensible route or worrying about whether what you’ve decided makes logistical sense.

Instead, we can work together to build an itinerary for your trip to Chile, carefully designed for you.

It’ll be packed with expert recommendations for every step of the trip: activities and tours that I know you’ll love, restaurants that’ll introduce you to the tastiest eats in a new country and unique hotels and comfortable guesthouses that’ll make you feel truly on vacation.

I also throw in all that nitty-gritty logistical information that you’ve scoured the web for – and spent hours of wasted time trying to work out exactly what is up-to-date and if it’ll change by the time you get there.

I’ve helped 150+ travellers move from feeling frustrated, overwhelmed and bogged down in travel details to having a clear, concise and expert-designed travel itinerary.  

However far along you currently are with your planning a trip to Chile, my services will save you time, effort and stress.

I do all the research, so that all you’ve got left to do is make the bookings. It’s simple, really!

I’ve helped 100+ travellers move from feeling frustrated, overwhelmed and bogged-down in travel details to having a clear, concise and expert-designed travel itinerary.  

However far along you currently are with your planning a trip to Chile, my services will save you time, effort and stress.

I do all the research, so that all you’ve got left to do is make the bookings. It’s simple, really!

Is this you?

Struggling to narrow down destinations to fit your trip? I’ve travelled practically the entirety of Peru, Chile and Patagonia, and I will help you pinpoint exactly where you want to go – throwing in both regional highlights and beyond-the-beaten-trail gems.

Battling to place your chosen destinations into an order that makes sense? I will show you the perfect route for your Chile trip, planning a logical itinerary that maximises your time in destinations and can help save you money on transportation.

Getting a headache from trying to book some of the more complicated logistical parts of your trip? I will make the process crystal clear, giving you lucid instructions and guidance to find available dates and the best accommodations for your needs and budget.

Fed up with trawling through TripAdvisor reviews for hotel, restaurant and tour operator
recommendations? Having experienced hundreds of each during my time writing guidebooks about Chile, Peru and Patagonia, I really do know each destination like the back of my hand. I will identify the best – and most memorable – options for you, your budget and your style of travel.

Worried about the unknowns of travelling in an unfamiliar country where you don’t speak the language? As a fluent Spanish speaker who has experienced all of the issues you could potentially face, I will prepare you in advance for every eventuality in Chile. Whether it’s renting a vehicle, crossing borders or how to withdraw money, I’ll ensure that the information you get is up-to-date and tailored to your circumstances.

How does the Chile travel itinerary service work?*

Since 2018, I’ve helped over 150 travellers and their families plan and book extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime vacations to Patagonia, Chile and Peru.

I understand how frustrating and stressful the process of planning an overseas trip to Chile can be. This is why I’ve streamlined my process to ensure that you get a bespoke, perfectly-suited itinerary for your trip without any further hassle on your part.

This process breaks down into three parts:

First, we need to find out what’s important to you, so that I know how to create a once-in-a-lifetime trip that ticks all the boxes. Once I’ve received payment, I’ll ask you to send me an outline of your trip: what activities do you enjoy doing on vacation? What’s your ‘hit list’ of destinations you want to cover? What sort of budget do you have? What burning questions do you want me to answer?

Second, we chat. Here’s where the magic happens: I’ll have prepped some ideas before our call but we’ll chat through everything you sent me. I can help turn vague ‘I want to go there’ vacation ideas or detailed, day-to-day itineraries into once-in-a-lifetime trips, while answering all those tricky logistical questions you’ve inevitably got.

Our conversation will cover everything from:

• Destinations – which places you should be considering visiting (even if they’re not yet on your radar!)
• Transportation – the logistics of how you’ll get there, whether by plane, public bus or rental car
• Activities – a full array of activity recommendations (both free and with recommended local tour operators) tailored to the types of activities you enjoy doing while on vacation
• Recommended Restaurants -suggested restaurants, focusing on everything from regional delicacies, fine dining, to market eateries and locals’ favourites
• Recommended Accommodations – information about my favourite accommodations in the area, drawing on your budget, style of travel and with unique, once-in-a-lifetime options thrown in for good measure
• Further Notes – additional information such as navigating toll booths, gas station and ATM availability, taking the metro: basically, anything logistical that you need to know on the ground during your South America vacation
• Alternatives – I LOVE giving people my wild card options, where I throw in an alternative route or alteration. Many clients describe these recommendations are what make their vacations.

Third, I’ll send you a document with all the information from our call. If anything isn’t clear, feel free to drop me some follow-up emails until everything makes sense.

WHICH OPTION WORKS BEST FOR YOU?

*Note that this South America trip planning service is only offered at the moment for Chile, Patagonia and Peru vacations, as these are the countries I have explored in enough depth to be able to guarantee you a top-quality planning service. If you’re seeking advice for Bolivia or Paraguay, contact me, and we can discuss a special service.

Meet Steph Dyson, your itinerary planner and authority on planning
a trip to Chile

Hi, I’m Steph, a British-born South America-phile, journalist and guidebook author.

I’ve made it my mission to help travellers explore South America without fuss, frustration or fear.

I’ve helped over 40 travellers and their families experience a life-changing vacation in Patagonia, Chile or Peru, plotting out bespoke travel itineraries that would have taken each of them days – maybe even weeks – to prepare.  

Guess what: I can help you experience the same!

Putting together a travel itinerary certainly isn’t rocket science – but it’s also a huge time suck.

But why trust me? After five years of living and travelling in South America, I’ve become an authority on the continent.

I’ve worked on over ten guidebook titles, traveling to practically every corner of Patagonia, Chile and Peru.

In Chile, I spent over two years researching and writing two editions of Moon Chile (released July 2025), a guidebook that covers the entire country. Along the way, I stayed in countless hotel rooms – both luxury lodges and local guesthouses – dined at a stomach-swelling number of restaurants and experienced once-in-a-lifetime tours and trips into the least-known parts of Chile and Patagonia.

For this guide, I also explored the length and breadth of Chilean and Argentine Patagonia. I hiked the O Circuit and W trek on two distinct occasions, drove my way up the Carretera Austral, boarded ferries through the Patagonian fjords and fell in love with South America’s most beautiful and wild region.

What’s more, during my five years in the continent, I traversed the northern and central Sierra regions of Peru for Lonely Planet Peru, the Rough Guide to Peru and the Rough Guide to South America, explored all of Paraguay (also for the Rough Guide to South America, lived (and volunteered) for a year in Bolivia, and lived (and volunteered) for seven months in Cusco, Peru.

I’ve written about all of these destinations for various different outlets, including and beyond Worldly Adventurer.

But, most importantly, last year, I helped half a million travellers who were planning a trip to or currently travelling in South America, through the detailed articles, ebooks and information found on this site.

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