Tour Operator Germantown, TN
So It Doesn’t Land On You
Storytellers Travel plans family vacations, Disney trips, girls trips and milestone getaways across the Memphis tri-state, so it never all lands on you to sort out.
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What we plan
Family Vacations, Disney & Group Getaways
Your Disney trip gets booked the moment it opens, not whenever an agent gets to it. Hannah claims dining at 5 a.m. and Lightning Lane at 6 a.m., seven days out, every time.
The same habit carries into girls trips, milestone birthdays and family reunions. One group trip to Costa Rica grew from a handful of friends to fifteen rooms, each on its own budget, with nobody chasing a deposit.
You get one itinerary covering ride order, parade timing and fireworks spots, and one person answering every question, so six opinions never become six headaches.
In Lakeland, where four in ten households raise kids under 18, and across the tri-state, families book their first trip with Storytellers and return for the next one.
Your Lightning Lane window opens seven days out, and Hannah is on the app claiming it the moment it does, the same way she books her own family’s Disney trips. Dining reservations get grabbed the instant they release, too. You’ll walk in with a day-by-day plan covering ride order, parade timing and where to stand for fireworks, not a stack of confirmation emails to piece together yourself. Memphis flies nonstop to Orlando on Frontier and Southwest, so the flight is the easy part. Disney and theme park planning handles everything after you land.
A resort’s own website can make an adults-only property look just as kid-friendly as one built around a splash pad and a kids’ club, and picking wrong from photos alone is an easy mistake to make. Family travel is where Hannah started, planning a Disney trip for her own foster children years ago and coming home determined to do it for other families too, and it’s stayed her biggest book of business since. She knows which Beaches and Hyatt Ziva properties actually work for a family of five, not just which ones photograph well. In Bartlett, where nearly a quarter of residents are under 18, that’s the question Storytellers hears most often. Family vacation planning starts there.
If you’re the one planning a girls trip, you’re already juggling everyone else’s calendar, budget and opinions, and you’re the one least likely to relax once you land. Hannah runs several of these a year for friend groups heading to the same resort together, with one point of contact and one shared timeline instead of a group chat nobody can keep up with. And if this is a bachelorette or a pre-wedding trip, you’re in familiar territory: Storytellers plans plenty of these for University of Memphis sororities, just down the road in Cordova, every fall. Girls trip planning covers resort choice, spa bookings and excursions, all built around one calendar.
A fortieth or fiftieth birthday trip is really a group trip wearing a different name: the same multi-room logistics, the same spread of budgets, plus a guest of honor who shouldn’t have to organize their own party. Hannah builds these around whoever’s being celebrated, working backward from their ideal week to figure out what the group around them can actually manage. Germantown, where the median age runs nearly eight years above the metro’s and roughly one in four residents is over 65, is where a lot of these milestone trips start. Milestone celebration trip planning starts with whose trip it actually is.
An anniversary trip carries none of a wedding’s paperwork: no room block, no resort contract, no vendor calls, just two people picking somewhere that fits who they are now rather than who they were on the wedding day. Hannah plans a steady stream of these every year, often back to the resort where a couple married, sometimes somewhere new entirely. East Memphis households, with incomes running about 60 percent above the citywide figure, are well positioned to fund one of these trips. Anniversary trip planning starts with what’s changed since the wedding, not what stayed the same.
Common Questions
Beaches or Sandals, which is better with kids?
Beaches is the family side of Sandals; Dreams is the family side of Secrets. Sandals and Secrets themselves are adults-only. It’s an easy mix-up, and for a group trip it matters: book the family arm, or the resort turns kids away at check-in.
How many rooms unlock a group rate?
Five rooms is usually the threshold resorts use for a group rate, whether that’s a reunion, a milestone trip or a wedding block. Storytellers checks what your specific resort offers once your headcount firms up, since the details shift by brand and by season.
Why does Lightning Lane booking start at 6 a.m.?
Because Disney’s Lightning Lane booking window opens seven days before your trip, and the best return times disappear within minutes. Hannah is on the app at 6 a.m. claiming yours the second it opens, rather than leaving it to whoever in your family happens to be free that morning.
What if our group can’t all afford the same resort?
Group trips get planned around a range, not one number. Some of your group might book a swim-up suite and others a garden view at the same resort, so everyone gets a real number that fits before anyone books.