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Karla Thoennes, Travel Advisor

Karla specializes in crafting personalized travel experiences. She has extensive travel expertise and trusted industry partnerships, and designs seamless itineraries that artfully balance adventure, relaxation, and cultural immersion. Whether planning ocean and river cruises, guided vacations, or fully custom journeys, Karla delivers a refined, stress-free experience with honest, transparent communication—thoughtfully tailoring every detail to reflect her clients’ unique tastes and expectations.

Karla’s experience in travel planning allow her to make any journey extraordinary. She truly shines when crafting getaways with luxury cruises, guided tours, and customized trips.

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  • Email: karla@tedblanktravel.com

Karla's Reviews

Karla helped us from all stages of our trip - from our first thoughts to every last detail. We had a truly breathtaking experience in Alaska! Starting in Denali and then cruising to Vancouver was exactly what we wanted, and Karla's planning made it seamless for us. From our built excursions to the recommendations Karla offered, we feel that we fully experienced Alaska just as we dreamed!
Alaska, What's Next?
Karla organized a trip to Europe for my college-aged daughter and I. We started in Stockholm, traveled through Norway, and ended in Iceland. Over the course of 2 weeks, we stayed in 5 different hotels, had numerous bus, train and flight transfers and a multitude of tours booked. The trip was seamless. Karla had a clear itinerary which outlined exactly what we needed to do that day including any vouchers and tickets. She included everything we asked for on the trip and it was a nice combination of scheduled tours/excursions and free days. We couldn't have asked for a better trip and will definitely use Karla again for future vacations.
Stephanie
Karla took care of everything. We had no idea what we wanted to do in Spain, and she sent lists of things to pick from. She set up our tour in Morocco with Intrepid and that was excellent. When we had to change some of our travel dates, she did that also. She followed through on everything and made sure we had all the info we needed. It was something we had never done so we needed someone who could help us, and Karla was the one. Now she is helping us with an Alaskan cruise.
Happy Traveler
Just got back from a wonderful 15-day tour of Thailand and a few days in Seoul, South Korea. I'm so glad we worked with Karla in planning this adventure! There were so many details involved - flights, hotels, airport transfers, tours.... Karla took care of all the details and all we needed to do was follow the instructions in the travel documents, and everything went as smoothly as we could have hoped for! I can't imagine how much effort it would have taken for us to do that ourselves. All we needed to do was pack! One of our flights did end up being cancelled, and Karla was very responsive to our need to get on another flight and make the necessary changes to arrangements for the hotel and transport from the airport on the other end. She also reached out during our journey to make sure things were going well. It was great knowing we had a partner to call on if needed.
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