• Travelcraft

  245 Seventh Ave., Ste. 8C; 646-336-7081

  If you think travel agents are irrelevant in the age of Expedia, try booking a last-minute trip with five stops throughout the Middle East and see how far you get online. Complicated and unusual itineraries are the house specialty of Travelcraft, an agency that can wangle a private tour of the costume department of Paris’s Comédie-Française. Unlike its lesser competitors, Travelcraft doesn’t stop at booking airline tickets and hotel rooms—its agents will send along recommendations for restaurants, museum exhibitions, and concerts culled from their own travel and from clients’ jaunts. Best of all, you don’t have to pay extra for its personalized service.

From the 2007 Best of New York issue of New York Magazine