Lauren
Ringel

Lauren Ringel is the co-founder of Alo Travels, a Philadelphia and Boston based boutique luxury travel agency specializing in elevated, deeply personalized travel experiences built around exceptional hotels.

Lauren’s love of travel started young at the most iconic hotel in Philadelphia. As a child, her dad and stepmom lived at The Rittenhouse Hotel and weekends felt like an immersive introduction to hotel life, from wandering polished hallways to high tea in the lobby and family dinners at the hotel’s restaurants. Those early experiences shaped her belief that a great hotel is never just a place to stay. It can be the heart of a trip and often the reason for the journey itself.

That instinct never faded. Today, Lauren is known among friends for turning casual strolls into impromptu hotel walkthroughs, popping into lobbies “just to look around” and emerging with a full understanding of the property, its energy and who it is truly right for. That natural curiosity is now the foundation of her work.

With a professional background spanning strategy consulting and digital marketing, Lauren brings a rare blend of creative vision and operational rigor to travel planning. She is organized, detail-oriented, and instinctively anticipates what clients will need before they ask. Clients trust her to translate how they want to feel on a trip into seamless, thoughtful itineraries that balance inspiration with precision.

Alo Travels works with sophisticated, discerning travelers who appreciate the finer things without any pretentiousness. Lauren’s clients believe, as she does, that hotels are an essential part of the experience. Many trips begin with a must visit hotel or resort and then expand outward into immersive cultural, culinary, wellness or family-friendly experiences.

Lauren handles every detail so her clients can be fully present, relaxed, and focused on the moments that matter most.

When she is not planning travel, Lauren lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband, her two daughters, and a very opinionated poodle bichon who firmly believes five star service should be standard.