35.01 N / 135.77 E
Kyoto
Japan
Tatami mornings and a private garden the colour of moss and rain.
RyokanOnsenGarden
$312 / night
ViewTawaraya Ryokan · 218 field notes
THE JOURNAL OF ELSEWHERE · ISSUE 14
Wayfare is a booking house run by travel editors. We sleep in the rooms, walk the routes, and hand you the trip already solved -- flights, stays, and the small print folded into one honest price.
Amalfi Coast
Villa Lucia · Italy
$395
per night
01 / WHERE WE ARE SENDING PEOPLE
Japan
Tatami mornings and a private garden the colour of moss and rain.
Tawaraya Ryokan · 218 field notes
Morocco
A tented suite at the foot of the dunes, silent but for the wind.
Erg Chebbi Camp · 164 field notes
Iceland
Glass angled straight at the aurora, a hot spring waiting below.
Hotel Borealis · 302 field notes
Italy
Lemon terraces stacked above a sea that refuses to be one blue.
Villa Lucia · 276 field notes
India
A restored haveli of pink sandstone, courtyards cool as dusk.
Rambagh Haveli · 189 field notes
Canada
Timber and glass on a glacier lake, pines right to the waterline.
Moraine Lodge · 241 field notes
02 / THE NETWORK
We hold rates with hundreds of small hotels and every major carrier, then stitch the connections into a single booking. One reference number, from your front door to the far one.
72
countries mapped
1,900+
stays slept in
1
reference number
03 / WHY WAYFARE
Every stay is booked, slept in, and written up by our own editors before it ever reaches your screen. No stock photos, no surprises at check-in.
The nightly rate is the rate. Taxes, the cleaning charge, the resort fee that is not really a fee -- all folded in and shown before you commit a cent.
Rooms, trains, the guide who knows the back roads. We book the journey end to end so the day you land is a day you enjoy, not a day you spend fixing.
GUIDED JOURNEY
Six days along the old post road through the Kiso Valley -- cedar forest, wooden inns, and the slower Japan the bullet trains forgot.
Meet at dusk in the stone-paved hill town. A kaiseki dinner at the inn and an early night before the trail begins.
from $2,480 per person
04 / FIELD NOTES
I have booked a lot of trips. This is the first time the itinerary read like it was written by a friend who actually lived there -- and every single reservation simply worked.
Marisol Vantieghem
Amalfi Coast, in May
They put us in inns I could never have found, with hosts who waited up past midnight. The walking notes were precise down to the turn at the broken torii.
Theo Okonkwo
Kiso Valley, last autumn
An aurora forecast by text at eleven at night, a car already warm outside the door. Wayfare thinks about the parts of a trip you forget until they go wrong.
Greta Lindholm
Reykjavik, in winter
THE DISPATCH
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