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Aerial View services & prices

Travel farther. Understand deeper.

She needs Aerial View to treat her like someone who already belongs in the room, whether that room is a summit in Kigali, a fashion week in Paris or a rooftop dinner in Nairobi.

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Services

What we offer

Seven ways to travel with Aerial View, from a free country guide to a fully companioned trip.

Country Guides

5 services

Thoughtfully researched guides covering culture, food, history, safety, transport, visas, language, etiquette and the small local details that help a place make sense before you land. Country guides are the proof of everything else Aerial View does. They stay free to read.

Digital Country Guide

Free

Full online guide. Culture, food, history, safety, transport, visa, etiquette, cost of living, when to go.

Guide PDF for offline use

$9 / guide

Downloadable, printable version of any published guide, formatted for use without data.

City Deep Dives

$25 / city

Neighbourhood-level detail for a single city. Where to stay by temperament, how to move, what to avoid.

Guide Bundle

$100

Any five guides or deep dives, chosen by you.

Wings members

Included

All guides, deep dives and bundles.

Free access to the guides is the principle. The paid items above are convenience formats, not a paywall. No guide is ever placed behind one.

Travel Consultation & Itinerary Planning

6 services

For the traveller who wants a real plan built by someone who knows the place. Not a template. We build around the reason you are going, the pace you actually enjoy and the budget you actually have.

Destination Read

$105

60 minute call with a destination specialist, followed by a written brief covering feasibility, timing, budget shape, visa position and three route options.

Full Itinerary Build

$330

Everything in the Destination Read, plus a day-by-day itinerary, accommodation shortlist with rationale, restaurant and activity recommendations, transport plan and a cultural briefing document. Two rounds of revision.

Companion Service

$750

Everything in the Full Itinerary Build, plus we make the bookings, hold the confirmations, brief you before departure and stay reachable through the trip via a dedicated channel.

Group Itinerary Build

$850

Full Itinerary Build for a private group of four to twelve travellers, including group logistics and a single point of coordination.

Add: Visa & documentation support

+$150

Requirement mapping, document checklist, appointment guidance and letter templates. We do not submit applications.

Add: Event or summit access planning

+$250

Ticketing, registration, agenda planning and introductions where we hold relationships with the organiser.

Credit. The Destination Read fee is credited in full against a Full Itinerary Build or a Companion Service booked within 60 days. The Full Itinerary Build fee is credited against any Aerial Escape booked within 60 days.

Aerial Escapes

5 services

Curated trip packages built around confirmed conferences, festivals and cultural events. Maximum 20 travellers per cohort. Event access, accommodation, transfers, local experiences and a guide who is a storyteller, not just a driver. Prices are per person, sharing, and vary by destination, season and event — the bands below are what to budget.

City Escape

Short, single city, one anchor event or festival. Accommodation, transfers, two curated experiences, group dinner. 3 to 4 nights.

Signature Escape

Multi-city or multi-region. Accommodation, all internal transport, four to six curated experiences, storyteller guide throughout. 5 to 7 nights.

Event & Summit Escape

Built around a confirmed conference or summit. Event access, accommodation, transfers, pre-event briefing, two cultural experiences. 4 to 6 nights.

Wings Escape (women only)

Any of the above, women only, with a Wings host and a pre-departure group call. 3 to 7 nights.

Flagship Escape

Once yearly. Highest specification accommodation, private access, long-form documentation of the trip. 7 to 10 nights.

Deposits & payment. A 30% deposit confirms a place. The balance is due 45 days before departure. Single occupancy supplement is 35% of the per person price. Always included: accommodation, internal transfers, named experiences, a storyteller guide, event access where stated, a pre-departure briefing and the country guide. Never included unless stated: international flights, visa fees, mandatory travel and medical insurance, unnamed meals, personal spending.

Wings by Aerial View

3 services

The women-only travel community. Women-only Escapes, honest travel advice and a network of women who know what it is like to explore somewhere new, whether alone or together.

Wings Open

Free

Community access, monthly group call, trip reports, safety notes from members who have just travelled.

Wings

$20/mo · $180/yr

Everything in Open, plus all country guides and city deep dives, early access to Escapes before public release, member pricing on consultations, the Wings directory of women by city.

Wings Circle

$35/mo · $320/yr

Everything in Wings, plus two Destination Reads per year, priority on capped cohorts, one guest pass per year, direct line to a destination specialist.

Founding members. The first 100 Wings members join at $84 for the first year and keep that rate for as long as the membership runs without a break.

Solo Travel Support

4 services

Destination-specific support for the woman travelling alone. How to navigate the city, where to eat alone comfortably, how to meet people, safety and accommodation. She finds her people before she lands.

Solo City Guide

$25

Written guide for one city built specifically for solo women. Neighbourhoods, transport at night, eating alone, meeting people, what to wear and where.

Solo Readiness Session

$100

45 minute call before a first solo trip. Route sanity check, safety planning, accommodation review and a check-in schedule.

Solo Companion Pairing

Wings members only

We introduce you to Wings members in the destination or travelling on the same dates. Introduction only, at both parties' consent.

Arrival Concierge

$150 / arrival

A vetted local contact meets you on arrival, gets you to your accommodation and stays reachable for 48 hours.

Skyline Women's Summit

6 services

The annual flagship gathering of women across Africa and the diaspora. A high-level conference combined with a full cultural experience of the host city. It starts in Rwanda.

Early Access

Full conference access for the first release. Limited allocation.

Standard

Full conference access, all sessions, welcome reception, delegate materials.

Premium

Standard access, plus the pre-summit dinner, reserved seating, the closed-door roundtable and the host city cultural programme.

Group of five or more

Standard access, per delegate.

Student & early career

Standard access. Verified. Capped allocation each edition.

Summit Escape

Standard ticket plus accommodation, transfers and the two day cultural programme, run as an Aerial Escape.

Corporate & Group Travel

4 services

For companies sending teams to summits, conferences and cultural moments, and for organisations bringing groups into the continent. We manage the logistics and brief the team so they arrive understanding where they are.

Group Travel Management

End-to-end management of a group booking. Accommodation, transfers, event registration, a single coordinator and on-trip support.

Cultural Briefing

A written and live briefing for the travelling team. Business etiquette, cultural context, dos and don'ts, local landscape.

Executive Itinerary

Individual planning for a senior traveller, including private transport and a discreet local contact.

Retained Corporate Account

A standing arrangement for organisations travelling four or more times a year. Reduced management fee, priority coordination and annual planning.

How it works

From guide to going home

1

Read the guide

Free, before you spend anything.

2

Book a Destination Read

One hour tells you whether the trip you are imagining is the trip that exists.

3

Choose your route

A built itinerary you run yourself, a Companion Service, or a place in an Escape cohort.

4

Prepare

Pre-departure briefing, cultural context and, for Wings members, an introduction to women already in the destination.

5

Come home with more than photographs

That is the whole point.

Good to know

Consultations & guides

Paid in full at booking.

Aerial Escapes

30% deposit, balance due 45 days before departure.

Cancelling an Escape

Full refund to 60 days before departure, 50% to 45 days, no refund inside 45 days. We will always try to transfer a place to another cohort.

Cohort size

We do not run cohorts above 20 people. The cap is the product.

What we do not do

We do not sell Africa as an exotic experience.

It is home, history and roots. We will decline a brief that asks for anything else.

We do not exaggerate a destination.

If a place has a rainy season, a visa problem or a safety consideration, the guide says so.

We do not handle visas, legal filings or insurance.

We prepare you for them and point you to people who do.

We are not in a hurry to be big.

We would rather run this properly than produce a folder of assets nobody uses.

For the life you are becoming.

Read a guide, book a Destination Read, or join Wings. However you start, we'll help you understand a place before you arrive.