No time to search the internet for hours?  Let it be done for you!

I have been planning vacations for myself and others for years and I am offering my time and expertise to my clients.  As a mother of six children I am extremely organized and self motivated.  I am an expert at researching all types of vacations and providing numerous options for travel. I have excellent communication and people skills.  I will design, plan, organize and offer you options for your next vacation.  Sit back, relax, and for a small fee I will do all the work for you!

Why choose Vacation By Design?

• We will customize and design the perfect vacation plan just for you

• We will eliminate the usual time and frustration with researching and planning your vacation

• We are experts at researching all types of vacations and providing numerous options for travel

• We will be accessible to you during the entire planning process

• We will work within your personal budget

• We have excellent communication and people skills resulting in efficient use of your time

• We are not affiliated with any particular airline or hotel; therefore your choices are greater

Time is priceless; let me save you time and money on your next vacation...

Listen to what others are saying...

“I can’t say enough about the service I received from Janet at Vacations by Design.  Janet went above and beyond what I expected and wouldn’t rest until she was satisfied that she has found the right vacation spot for me.  She was always pleasant and fun to work with and never made me feel like I was being a pain even when I changed my mind on several occasions.  We ended up finding the ideal vacation spot and Janet was as excited as I was when she found it. You can tell she genuinely cares about her clients having a great vacation. This is a service I can see myself using again and again.” 

-Donna Krone, Personal and Professional Coach/Consultant

“Janet is the Vacation Planner.  Her major virtue is that she truly listens to her clients, and then she goes that extra mile to ensure great flights, accommodations and services."

-Tom Ferguson

"If you’re like Jean and me you have lots of interest in travel and vacations, you have accumulated free air miles and you have a few weeks of time share.  That’s the good news.  The bad news is that you just hate to invest the time to put a vacation together, trying to weave in paid air with free air and then weave in paid hotels and/or cruises with those time shares.  Travel agents don’t want to deal with your freebies just to get a piece of the paid fill-ins.  Five years ago we patched together a five week vacation to New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong doing all the work.  It must have taken 100 hours over a two month period.  Never again!!

Enter Janet Macuch, founder of Vacations by Design.  We have now used her services for two major searches.  The most recent is an Alaskan Cruise that involves all of the “weaving” mentioned above.  To complicate matters, we're taking our sister, who will depart and return to a different city using our frequent flyer points.  Janet explored dealing direct with the cruise lines, paying for the airfare vs. using free points, going through brokers and cheapie cruise deals, and finally, with a lead from me, contacting a travel company who specializes in Alaskan cruises.  Vacations by Design had no financial reason to use one source vs. another since they only work for us and only by an up front agreed upon hourly service fee.  It turned out Janet loved our contact, gained from a friend who had used them in the past.

Bottom line.  We only deal with one person, Janet.  She explores all the options and communicates with us using e-mail and the phone.  She has all our frequent mileage, time share and credit card information.  She makes planning vacations a pleasure, not a night mare.  

While writing this our son called.  He’s getting married in one month.  We gave him a timeshare week for Hawaii and his sister furnished frequent flyer miles.  I told him I was writing this testimonial.  What I didn’t know is that Vacations by Design had assisted him with his honeymoon travel plans just as I’ve been describing.

Give Vacations by Design the opportunity to make your next search painless.  You’ll be glad you did.  In the interest of full disclosure you should know that Janet is a friend of our daughter.  They both have several kids who play together.  They’ve both had successful professional careers where multi-tasking has been the rule, not the exception.  We’ve heard how well Janet organizes her own family’s adventurous vacations, so we gave her a try when she started her business.  She’s a natural.  Give her a try.  And, feel free to call if you’d like to talk in person."

-Edward W. Newland