A 1:1 travel advisory practice for travelers who want more than a vacation.
Curated cruises, Pride celebrations, and journeys designed for queer travelers who want to travel as their whole selves.
Curious travelers who refuse to leave any part of themselves at home.
For the curious appetite.
Solo Michelin pilgrimages, couples backpacking the Amazon, or anywhere your curiosity takes you — crafted around how you actually travel.
Where you’re the main character.
Sailings designed for queer travelers — from intimate river cruises to full-ship takeovers. Not an afterthought, the whole point.
Folsom. Dore. IML. Beyond.
Planned with discretion, zero judgment, and the logistical expertise these trips deserve. Your leather has its own packing strategy — we’ve got it.
Amsterdam to Sydney.
We handle the details so you can focus on what matters — showing up, showing out, and making memories you’ll be telling for years.
The trips that built this practice.
What you get that a brochure can’t give you.
Your trip, your way.
Every detail tailored to how you travel, not how a brochure says you should. Your preferences, your pace, your priorities.
Insider access.
The reservation you couldn’t get, the party you didn’t know about, the table with the view. Connections that open doors.
Someone in your corner.
When things go sideways — and travel sometimes does — you’ve got someone who picks up the phone and makes it right.
Erik Engstrom · Seattle · Curio Travel
Travel without code-switching.
I started Curio Travel because I was tired of seeing queer travelers treated as an afterthought — or worse, a "special interest group" to be tolerated. You deserve a travel advisor who understands that your leather harness might need its own packing strategy, that "plus one" doesn’t always mean what forms assume it means, and that the best trips happen when you don’t have to edit yourself.
Based in Seattle, serving travelers everywhere. Let’s plan something extraordinary.