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LUXE
Places worth the flight. A luxury travel site built from the best of thirty travel apps, plus what they all miss. Imagery first, search second.
- Destinations
- 54
- Real photos
- 128
- Home airports
- 12
- AI features
- 4
- Booking fee
- $0
The research
What travel sites get wrong.
Before designing anything I read the lawsuits, regulator reports, Trustpilot threads and surveys. Every complaint that kept coming up became a rule in the app.
- 5 of 10“Only X rooms left” claims on Booking.com that Which? found inaccurate in spot checks.Which? ↗
- 5%of travelers could pick all three real destination photos over AI fakes in a June 2026 survey.Talker Research ↗
- 74%of affluent travelers are tired of itineraries that feel designed by an algorithm.Preferred Hotels / Harris Poll ↗
- 1 in 3online travelers in a Frommer’s study never got a reply to an emailed question.Frommer’s / eDigitalResearch ↗
- 30apps on The Points Guy’s list of the best travel apps, across seven categories. LUXE is built to be one.The Points Guy ↗
- 77%of travelers are likely to book more than one part of a trip on the same platform.Expedia Group / Harris Poll, 2026 ↗
Where it stands
Status.
Live. Real places, real hotels and real photos, each credited to its photographer. Prices are typical ranges until a live rate is checked.
- DoneResearchLawsuits, regulator reports, reviews and surveys on what travel and advisor sites get wrong.
- DoneThe site54 destinations with real photos, real hotels, best months, door-to-door time and entry rules for a US passport.
- DoneAIAsk LUXE, trip matching from a sentence or a photo, questions about any place, and itinerary drafts.
- DonePrice checkThe live public rate for a named hotel and dates, next to what the advisor perks are worth.
- NextLaunchDomain, host-agency partnership and trip-request email.
- PlannedShared boardsMove saved places from the browser to accounts so a group can plan together.
The brief
The last tab you open.
Luxury travelers jump between booking sites, advisor networks and a dozen utility apps. The booking sites push fake scarcity and hide fees. The advisor networks hide prices behind a person. LUXE is the place you finish: you find a place by looking at it, see when to go and what it really costs, and hand the booking to a person.
What I built
Kept the best, filled the gaps.
It keeps what already works: flexible months from Airbnb and advisor perks from Virtuoso and Amex FHR. Then it adds what none of them do: door-to-door time from your own airport on every place, the best months at a glance, entry rules for a US passport, and a live check of the public rate for a named hotel next to what the perks are worth.
The AI
It asks better questions.
Describe a trip in a sentence, or drop in a photo of the kind of place you want, and LUXE asks up to three questions, then ranks every destination. Ask LUXE answers with places you can open, and the plan form drafts an itinerary. Every task runs on the server with fixed instructions and a rate limit; the browser never sends a prompt.
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