The Women's Travel Club
'trips designed by women for women'
The Women's Travel Club is the largest travel club of its kind in the country. Eight years old and growing every year, the Club caters to women who want to take a trip solo. We organize about 20 plus group trips each year which are published in both a newsletter and on a password protected web site: womenstravelclub.com.
All trips include airport transfers if we include airfare as well as porterage, entrance fees, breakfast, service charges and taxes. Our customized trips are popularly priced based on a group of 15 -25. We stress quality of the tour and guide and stay in comfortable but simple places unless noted differently. We always include some walking. As you might be coming on a trip alone, we make sure you feel part of a friendly group.
The club arranges room shares for anyone who needs a share although there are some singles available. Cultural trips are from 3 days to 3 weeks and are all over the world. There are also some health resorts and some American cities. Prices range from $350-$4,000 ( an August 7 African safari for instance.)
Upcoming trips include but are not limited to Egypt/Israel, S. Italy and Sicily, Oaxaca, Mexico weekend, Chile and Argentina for the Milennium. We can arrange extensions to many of these, to Petra for those going to Egypt.
Ages range from 30ish to 60ish, some older and some younger. Members are both married and single. Flights go from many cities and there is ff credit for those lucky ladies. Groups are capped at 25 maximum but we also do much smaller trips. We accept most credit cards and checks.
Staff
Carole Miller, the one with the soft voice when you call, has travelled extensively and loves the south of France and Paris ( who doesn't?). She chooses restaurants before cities and is known to drag her husband into museums when it is raining outside.
Ghita Wolpowitz was born in Zimbabwe and lived in South Africa, London, New York and now Florida. She spends her non-working time commuting between her three children and just about every place that our group goes. She lives for boarding passes.
Phyllis Stoller founded the Club in order to find women to travel with when her husband became a workaholic! She is a known expert on women's travel and lectures on security, packing and other travel related topics. Her two London-born sons have been editors of Lets Go Guidebooks ( published by Harvard University) and have worked in Japan. One is now happily off the Stoller payroll.
Tour leaders are local specialists who join the group at the destination. We sometimes hire local academics to lecture. For instance, in Yemen we had a talk by an American woman professor and an orientation by a London professor. We sometimes send a veteran member to coordinate the group if there are 20 or more participants.
Way off the Beaten Track
Each year we do one or two trips to highly unusual places: in 1998 we did Yemen, This year we spend the milennium in the Andes, in Argentina; we also visit Oaxaca, India, Morocco, Tunisia and others. and in 2000 we hope to do Uzbekistan and perhaps India again. Stay posted and join the Club for updated information.
