Sandy Feldman

SANDY FELDMAN, MCC

As a young girl, I loved adventure and exploration. Whether it was playing in a tree house on the family farm, climbing oyster-shell piles along the Intracoastal Waterway, or just riding my bike beyond her permitted boundaries, I was always looking over the next hill to discover what was there.

As an adult, I have lived and explored Northern California with my son, Randy, drove cross-country and worked for a resort developer, overseeing properties in Texas, West Virginia and elsewhere. Later, after marrying husband, Mark, I attended many conventions and conferences with him and organized shopping tours and sightseeing for the attendees’ spouses, who otherwise sat around the conference hotel all day.

The National Conference of Insurance Legislators asked me to organize and conduct their spousal tours on a more formal basis, and a career in travel was born. Joining forces with successful travel agents in Charleston, SC, I went out on my own a few years later and was recruited by Travel Experts, one of the country’s leading agencies and Virtuoso, the premier high-end travel network, to work through them.

I now plan adventures for clients all over the world, on ships, river boats and barges, by train car, bicycle and horseback and sometimes by just relaxing at a villa in Italy, a castle in Ireland or a resort in the Caribbean.

I have made friends and contacts with travel providers around the world and have a vast array of Virtuoso-approved properties and tour operators to call on. I have garnered accolades from clients such as:

• “You were fantastic! We loved the whole experience.” (N.C., Washingtonville, NY, Baltic Sea Cruise and St. Petersburg excursion);
• “You always do great. We just need to find when we can cruise again. You are the one!” (R.P., Seattle WA, Mexican Riviera cruise);
• “Sandy listened to our itinerary “wants” and found a fabulous package… much cheaper than if we had travelled on our own. Her answers to all our questions were prompt and clear.” (M-C. D., Charleston, SC, Egypt tour and Nile River cruise).

Twelve years ago, I began travel planning for the spouses of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators at their conferences in major cities across the United States. In May 2006, I joined a Charleston based travel company specializing in cruises. Through CLIA, I earned my Master Cruise Counselor certification in 2008 and won a contract to book the South Carolina Educational Lottery cruise prizes with Carnival Cruise Lines. In October 2008, I joined Travel Experts, a Virtuoso partner, as a home-based agent. My client base is from all over the United States and I am enjoying the opportunity to plan travel for my clients to exciting destinations world-wide.