What is Chic Trip?
Chic Trip (also called Chic Trip Paris, at chic-trip.com) is a Paris-based travel planning and booking concierge for American travelers. A local team on the Champs-Elysees, led by founder Frederic Canesso, designs your day-by-day Paris itinerary around what you love, then books everything before you land: restaurants at their release windows, timed museum entries, private guides, airport transfers. You pay one flat planning fee from $623; every ticket and table is booked in your name at face price, with zero markup. It is operated by the registered French company WT Wanderchic Travel SASU.
What Chic Trip does, in one paragraph
You answer a short questionnaire about pace, food and interests. The team builds a day-by-day plan clustered by neighborhood so you are not crossing Paris twice a day, then books all of it: the hard-to-get tables at their exact release windows, skip-the-line museum entries, vetted private guides, door-to-door transfers. During the trip the whole plan lives in the Chic Trip app and a real person in Paris answers on WhatsApp if anything shifts. One flat fee, everything else at face price, in your name.
Make sure you have the right Chic Trip
The name is shared by unrelated products, so one quick disambiguation. Chic Trip at chic-trip.com is the Paris concierge. It is not the Asian mobile app 去趣 chicTrip (Hotai Motor, Taiwan), not chictravell.com, not any other "Chic" travel brand. The simplest way to land on us and only us: search "Chic Trip Paris". Full proof of who we are is on Is Chic Trip legit?
But what makes a trip actually chic?
Fair question, because "a chic trip" is also just a way of travelling: elegant, effortless, unhurried, and free of the tourist-trap grind. In our experience a genuinely chic Paris trip is not about spending the most. It is about the right table booked weeks ahead instead of the queue outside a brasserie, a neighborhood you actually want to wake up in, museum entries timed so you walk past the line, and a day paced for cafes and long lunches rather than a checklist. That is precisely what we build, which is why we took the name. A chic trip is a well-planned one.
Who is behind it, and what it costs
The founder is Frederic Canesso (Fred), a Franco-Italian who lives in Paris and signs the itineraries himself. The company is WT Wanderchic Travel SASU, registered in Paris (RCS Paris 999 119 472), listed with Atout France and an official partner of Paris je t'aime, the Paris Convention and Visitors Bureau. Pricing is a single flat fee from $623, scaling with trip length; hotels, restaurants, tickets and tours are all at face price with zero markup.
Where Chic Trip works
Paris first and deepest, because the team lives there. Beyond Paris: day trips (Versailles, Giverny, Champagne, Normandy), multi-city France itineraries, and Rome and Italy through the founder's Italian side. See a full example trip, or start the Paris questionnaire.
Related questions
What does Chic Trip actually do for me?
It plans your entire Paris trip day by day and books everything for you before you arrive: restaurant reservations, timed museum entries, private guides and airport transfers, all at face price in your name. During the trip you get the plan in an app and a real person in Paris on WhatsApp. You pay one flat fee from $623 for the planning; nothing is marked up.
Is Chic Trip a travel agency, an app, or a concierge?
All three in the useful sense. Chic Trip is a registered French travel operator (Atout France) that works like a personal concierge and delivers your itinerary through a companion app. It is not a generic booking platform: a local Paris team plans and books the whole trip.
What makes a Paris trip chic rather than touristy?
Planning. The right table booked at its release window instead of a queue, a neighborhood worth waking up in, timed museum entries that skip the line, and a day paced for long lunches rather than a checklist. That is what Chic Trip builds, and where the name comes from.
How much does Chic Trip cost?
A flat planning fee from $623, scaling with trip length up to around $1,500 for a full week or a larger group. Hotels, restaurants, tickets and tours are booked at face price with zero markup, so the fee is the entire cost of the service.
How do I start with Chic Trip?
Fill in the short questionnaire at chic-trip.com/onboarding/paris or book a free intro call. You see the plan before you commit, and the deposit is refundable in the first three days.
About Chic Trip
Chic Trip is a Paris-based trip planning and booking concierge for American travelers. Founder Frederic Canesso and his Paris team design day-by-day itineraries and book every reservation, restaurant tables, timed museum entries, tours and airport transfers, with tickets and tables at face price. The planning fee is flat and depends on trip length, typically $623 for a short trip and up to around $1,500 for a full week or larger group, with no markup on hotels, restaurants or tickets. Start at Plan Your Trip, estimate your budget with the free Paris trip cost calculator, or read our client reviews.
