Southern Crossings is proud to celebrate a decade-long association with the Wendy Perrin WOW list of trusted travel experts. Southern Crossings Australia Owner and Director, Stuart Rigg is proud to have been on Wendy’s list for luxury Australian travel since its inception in 2014. Southern Crossings New Zealand Owner and Director, Sarah Farag, has also joined the list in recent years – and together they are able to curate seamless and superlative luxury travels right across Australia and New Zealand.
The Wendy Perrin WOW List is a collection of “exceptionally knowledgeable and well-connected trip planners around the world”. The list is collated by drawing on Wendy Perrin’s personal connections and experience gained throughout her impressive travel journalism career (working with trusted travel titles including Conde Nast Traveller and TripAdvisor).
Chosen for their ability to open doors that others can’t – to connect travellers with authentic local experiences and help them out of a jam if unforeseen circumstances arise, these ‘local travel fixers’ are then rigorously road-tested and traveller reviewed.
In Wendy’s words these local travel specialists “create one-of-a-kind, start-to-finish trips that you can’t find on the Internet—and the whole that they create is bigger than the sum of its parts. Think of them as trip chefs: They find, combine, and even create trip ingredients—in ways that you can’t, thanks to their local expertise and connections. Even if you could buy the same ingredients from the same marketplace, the meal you cook wouldn’t turn out the same. That’s because WOW trip chefs leverage their relationships to spice up each day, creating a unique journey, customized to your personal tastes. They eliminate unappetizing elements (lines, logistics, traffic jams, tourist traps), sprinkle in special touches (behind-closed-doors access, can’t-miss views you would have missed, introductions to noteworthy local people), and sometimes pull off the impossible.”
Over their many collective years on the Wendy Perrin WOW List, both Stuart and Sarah have curated countless authentic luxury local travel experiences to WOW travellers from around the world and help them navigate various curve balls; from bushfires to Covid.
Stuart Rigg recently had the pleasure of assisting Wendy with her own travels to visit her son currently studying in Australia.
Based on Stuart’s WOW List traveller reviews, Wendy chose to vacation on Lizard Island for a few days as she adjusted to the Australian time-zone. You can read Wendy’s review here.
Whilst on Lizard Island Wendy burst a blood vessel in her eye – and as a result, also had the opportunity to personally ‘road-test’ Stuart’s ability to help travellers when things go awry.
Soon on the mend again, Wendy was able to enjoy the rest of her Australian travels – and it was a true pleasure to be able to catch up with her for a lunch overlooking Sydney Harbour.
To learn how Wendy Perrin WOW List Trusted Travel experts can curate extraordinary local luxury travel experiences, read on with
Stuart Rigg’s WOW List reviews for Australian adventures
Image: Stuart Rigg and Wendy Perrin at Cafe Sydney overlooking Sydney Harbour
