Hi, I'm Kaeleigh- Kae to almost everyone.

I've been the person people text before a trip for as long as I can remember. Before kids that meant Los Angeles and long weekends. Then it meant working out whether Disneyland was worth it with a two-year-old — and going anyway, and learning the hard way which hotel is worth the extra walk.

Now it's both. Some of our trips are character breakfasts and stroller naps. Some are just me and my husband and a hotel room with a door that closes.

I'm a licensed travel advisor on California's Central Coast. California and Mexico are where I've done the miles myself — Disneyland and Universal, Santa Barbara and the Central Coast, Cabo, Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Maya. If you want to know which hotel is worth the extra walk, or which resort just has a good photographer, that's the part I've earned.

And I book the rest of it. Japan, Italy, Greece, Australia. Cruises — Disney, and everything else that floats. The trip you've been putting off because planning it felt like a second job.

Here's the part most people don't realize: the perks are the smaller half. Yes, I can usually get you a room upgrade, breakfast, a credit to spend at the property. But what actually saves a trip is knowing which room to ask for, which day to skip the park, which excursion is worth booking ahead and which one you should just walk off the ship and find yourself. For the places I haven't been yet, I have a network behind me — advisors who've just come back, and hotel partners who tell us things that never make it onto a booking site.

It costs you nothing. The hotel pays me, not you.

Tell me the trip. I'll handle the rest.