ABOUT US

  • The Citrine Compass is a boutique travel planning network that helps busy, sophisticated world explorers create curated and authentic travel experiences. The CC is comprised of a hand-selected collection of local tastemakers around the globe that have amazing taste and a passion for their region.

    The CC was created for the traveler who loves to research and plan trips but wants a trusted expert based locally in their destination to give advice, insight and a personalized itinerary with a taste level they can trust. Save endless hours combing obscure blogs, reviews from the mass public on TripAdvisor and outdated articles that leave you feeling overwhelmed. Speak to a local tastemaker and put together the right trip for the amount of time you have, budget you’re targeting and personal travel style.

    Skip the guesswork and hours wasted on exhaustive research and talk to someone in the market who can advise you on how early you really need to get to the Santiago airport, which Paris bar has amazing live music on Tuesday nights and the best family run wineries for Mourvèdre on your Paso Robles road trip.

  • We are not “box tickers” here at The CC. What do we mean by that? We are not the type to plan a trip to Rome, stay at the Marriott and spend an entire time waiting in line at The Vatican, fighting other camera-clutching tourists for that perfect shot of Trevi Fountain or shuffling along like cattle at a group tour of the Coliseum. We don’t rush around seeing every tourist attraction just to tick a box and say we’ve done it.

    We’re the type that stays in a family-run boutique hotel in the more intimate Roman neighborhood of Trastevere, eats fresh focaccia outside of a hole-in-the-wall haunt, gets a private tour of the Colisuem’s underground gladiator tunnels and knows the best flea market to find vintage Missoni. Do you catch our drift?

    The CC is for the mid-level luxury traveler that likes the finer things in life but doesn’t always want to be waited on hand and foot; it’s for the person that isn’t afraid to get off the beaten path and experience something new if it will give them a fresh perspective on life and culture.

    To sum it all up, our travel style is authentic, curated, always hinting towards luxury, occasionally leaning towards wild adventure and perfect for the busy traveler who wants to execute dream vacations with a local’s advice fueling their planning.

  • The CC is the solution for busy travelers with a high taste level that don’t have time to spend hours combing the internet, want local intel when trip planning and ultimately still want to have control over the trip’s execution.

    The typical traveler might plan a trip based on a mix of friend’s recommendations, blog posts, social media, editorial content and travel forums. All of these can be useful but can take hours of research and all sources eventually become outdated (we’ve all found ourselves on an obscure TripAdvisor thread from 2004 trying to figure out some logistical minutiae).

    The high net worth traveler might use a travel agent that makes commissions off of certain recommendations, isn’t incentivized to recommend things like restaurants or outdoor activities and usually doesn’t live in the countries where they plan.

    Here’s where The CC comes into play. With our team, you will be able to get hyper-local, up-to-date and personalized travel recommendations that you will be able to book yourself. No commission-fueled bias, no outdated travel blogs and no guesswork on whether or not the trip you take is actually going to turn out like you imagined.

  • Meet Kalyn, the founder and Chief Travel Officer of The Citrine Compass. Kalyn worked in fashion, finance and executive recruiting before taking the leap of a lifetime and leaving her full-time job to launch The CC in January of 2023.

    Kalyn created The Citrine Compass as a disruptive travel planning service for the mid-level luxury traveler that loves to plan their own trips but doesn’t have the time to do the initial research and values local insight and current recommendations. It’s a resource for the seasoned traveler looking to have an authentic global experience that still feels like a getaway.

    She believes travel should be authentic, curated, always hinting towards luxury, occasionally leaning towards wild adventure and something that inspires us to learn and grow.

    She resides in Los Angeles with her amazing husband, Devin, her baby girl, Rita, and her fur babies Willa, Lily and Crew.