The private travel concierge for people who would rather be traveling than planning.
The Cruise Studio is an appointment-only lifestyle travel concierge in Labadie, Missouri. We manage every detail of your cruises, resorts and tours. Or, if you travel often, we show you how to book your own trips as a travel partner and keep up to 95% of the commission.
By appointment only. Please allow 48 hours before your first meeting.
Ethical agency. Your payments go straight to the cruise line, resort or tour operator, never through us.
Your details stay private. We never send spam or sell your information.
Two ways to travel with The Cruise Studio
Some clients want every detail handled. Others travel so often they want to be the travel agent. We serve both, personally.
Lifestyle Travel Concierge
You tell us how you like to travel. We handle the rest: the right ship and stateroom, the resort that fits your pace, private transfers, excursions, dining and every change along the way.
- Ocean, river and luxury cruises
- All-inclusive and boutique resorts
- Guided tours and custom itineraries
- One advisor from first call to welcome home
Travel Partnership with NEST Plus
Travel often? Stop paying someone else's commission. Become the travel agent for your own trips, your family's and your friends', and keep up to 95% of the commission on every booking.
- Exclusive partnerships from $299 to $997 per year
- Up to 95% of the commission back to you
- Personal guidance from a travel pro since 2015
- Travel more, on your own terms
How an appointment-only concierge works
No call centers, no booking engines, no drop-in visits.
Just a planned conversation and a plan built around you.
1. Reserve your consult
Request a time that suits you. We ask for 48 hours' notice so your first meeting has our full attention and some early research behind it.
2. Tell us how you travel
Your pace, your must-haves, the cabins and rooms you love, the crowds you avoid. If partnership interests you, we walk through how booking and commissions work.
3. Travel with confidence
We arrange every piece and stay with you before, during and after the trip. Partners get the same support while they learn to book on their own.
Your concierge: Anthony Cooper
Anthony has built travel businesses since 2015. He owned a Cruise Planners franchise, ran an independent agency within Travel Leaders Network for more than seven years, and has sailed more than 30 cruises around the world. Today The Cruise Studio is part of NEST, which gives our clients and partners wider supplier access and more flexibility.
He holds the Associate Cruise Counselor (ACC) certification through CLIA and a Certified Travel Consultant designation, with training across Viking, Cunard, Holland America, Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, Pleasant Holidays and Apple Leisure Group.
Anthony and his wife Janel plan every trip the way they plan their own: unhurried, carefully paced, and built around the people traveling.
"I've always planned with The Cruise Studio, back when they were The LoneStar Travelplanners out of Houston. Tony has done a great job taking closed agency, reviving it and masterfully moving it through a pandemic and still keeping it going. And he is totally calm and cool, he doesn't get in a hurry and expects his clients to follow that path. Hurried lives bring terrible mistakes."
Alfreda Jones
Loyal client since 2006
Your next journey starts with one unhurried conversation.
Whether you want every detail handled or you are ready to become the travel agent for your own trips, it begins the same way: a private consultation with Anthony, or one of our exclusive concierge associates.
- No drop-in visits, so your time is never rushed
- Payments go directly to the supplier in your name
- Concierge clients and travel partners welcome
The Cruise Studio
Appointment-only lifestyle travel concierge and travel partnerships. Labadie-St. Louis, Missouri.
By appointment only. Please allow 48 hours before a first meeting. We do not accept drop-in visits.
anthony@thecruisestudio.com
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The Cruise Studio. All rights reserved. The Cruise Studio is an ethical agency: we never take payment for travel directly.
Every payment is made in your name, directly to the supplier. Member NEST Plus Agencies