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Luxury Resorts · Destination Weddings & Honeymoons · Ocean & River Cruises · Family & Group Travel
Luxury travel, planned by one person who knows you
I’m Kimberly Niccum. I plan resorts, cruises, destination weddings, honeymoons and family trips for people who would rather look forward to the trip than spend forty hours researching it.
One advisor from the first idea to the trip home · Based in Hayes, Virginia · Working with clients wherever they live
The part nobody warns you about
You know where you want to go. What you don’t want is a second job planning it.
Forty browser tabs. Six resorts that all look the same in a photograph. Reviews that contradict each other, and a price that moves every time you check it. Meanwhile the trip is supposed to be the reward.
Here is what I do instead. I ask what the trip is actually for — the anniversary, the people, the pace you like, the things you can’t stand — and then I go and find it. You get a short list of options with the differences spelled out, one person answering your questions, and someone with your itinerary in hand while you travel. From our first conversation until you’re home, the arranging is mine.
Specialties
Curated Travel Experiences
Six kinds of trips, each planned around your travel style, your priorities, and the memories you want to bring home.
Luxury Resort Escapes
All-inclusive and traditional luxury resorts, matched to how you actually like to spend a day — not to what photographs well.
ExploreOcean & River Cruises
From Caribbean sailings to European rivers — the right ship, the right cabin, the right itinerary, and the sea days you’ll actually enjoy.
ExploreDestination Weddings & Honeymoons
Romantic escapes and celebration travel, with the contracts, the rooms and the timeline handled end to end.
ExploreGroup & Family Travel
Multi-generational trips, reunions and milestone getaways — one plan everyone can follow, and nobody chasing twenty people for answers.
ExploreCustom Vacation Planning
A trip built from scratch around your dates, your budget and your version of a good time.
ExploreMilestone Celebrations
Anniversaries, birthdays and the trips that deserve more than a dinner reservation.
ExploreWhy use an advisor
“I could just book it myself.”
You could. Plenty of people do, and some of them are perfectly happy. Here is the honest version of what changes when you don’t do it alone.
You keep as much of it as you want
Some clients send me a paragraph and a budget. Others research every hotel and want a second opinion. Both work. How involved you are is your call, trip by trip.
The internet is good at options, bad at fit
A search engine will show you every resort on the island. It won’t tell you which one is right for a family with a four-year-old, or which one goes quiet at nine.
You are not paying a middleman
Hotel and cruise pricing is largely set for advisors too, and preferred-partner rates, upgrades and amenities come back to you rather than being kept. If any part of the planning carries a fee, you’ll hear about it before we start — not on the invoice.
Somebody answers while you travel
A cancelled flight at eleven at night is not an online-form problem. You have one person who already knows the itinerary.
Founder of Premier Travel Options
Meet Kimberly Niccum
Travel has always been more than a passion — it’s how I connect with people, discover the world, and help others create unforgettable memories. I founded Premier Travel Options to make luxury travel feel effortless and personal.
What that means in practice: I ask the questions a booking form doesn’t, I tell you when something is not worth the money, and I stay on the trip with you long after the deposit clears. Your style, your budget, your version of a great vacation — that’s the brief I work from.
Free resource
Guide to Choosing the Perfect Luxury Resort
Find the resort that fits your travel style, your priorities, and your perfect escape.
- How to choose the right resort style
- Adults-only vs. family-friendly
- All-inclusive vs. traditional luxury resorts
- Romantic honeymoon escapes
- Destination wedding resorts
Group & family travel
Trips that keep everyone together
Reunions, milestone birthdays and multi-generational vacations — the rooms, the flights and the details coordinated so you can be present with the people you came for.
How it works
Four steps, and only the first one is yours
1. Tell me about the trip
Who’s going, roughly when, the occasion, a budget range, and anything you already know you want — or want to avoid. Ten minutes of your time.
2. We talk it through
A short conversation, no cost and no obligation, so I understand what would make the trip right before I start searching.
3. You get options, not links
A short list of properties, ships or itineraries, with the trade-offs stated plainly and the details already checked. You pick, we adjust.
4. I handle the rest
Bookings, documents, transfers and the itinerary in one place — and me reachable while you travel.
Where I stand
A few opinions, since you’re asking
Anyone can send you a link. These are the things I find myself saying to clients again and again.
On resorts
The lobby photograph sells the trip; the room at eight in the morning is what you live in. I care about the second one.
On cruises
The itinerary is the product and the ship is the hotel. Choose the ports you want to wake up in, then let the ship narrow itself down.
On travelling with a group
Group trips fail on expectations, not bookings. One written plan everybody can read fixes most of it before anyone packs.
Draft copy — written for Kimberly to approve, rewrite in her own words, or throw out.
Kind words
“Everything was seamless from start to finish. We didn’t have to
worry about a thing.”
Natalie & Jeff · Playa Blanca, Costa Mujeres
From the journal
Travel tips & inspiration
All-inclusive or traditional? How to choose
Both have their place. It depends on how you like to eat, wander and unwind once you’re there.
Ocean or river — the honest difference
Ship size, ports, pace and what you see from your cabin. A plain-language comparison.
Ready when you are
Tell me the trip. I’ll come back with the plan.
Where you’re dreaming of, roughly when, and who’s coming. That’s enough to start.