About Me

I’m Falguni Patel, MD, a physician and luxury travel advisor based in New Orleans (Metairie, Louisiana), and the founder of Tranquil Explorations. I plan slow, thoughtful luxury travel for busy professionals and midlife travelers.

Unlike advisors working from hosted press trips, everything I recommend I’ve paid for and experienced myself — so what you get is judgment, not a sales script.

By day I practice hospital medicine on an alternating one-week-on, one-week-off schedule. On my weeks off, I travel — deliberately, slowly, and always at my own expense. Over the past several years that’s taken me to more than 45 countries across five continents, from leopard sightings at Mahali Mzuri in Kenya to sunrise at Tiger’s Nest in Bhutan.

The same discernment I bring to patient care goes into building trips that match how you want to feel — not just where you want to go.

I was born in Kenya, raised in India, and have called the New Orleans area home for more than twenty years. Every trip I plan starts where most of my clients start: Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY). I know which gateways work, and I book most of my own international flights with points, in business class.

If you’re planning a trip built around real rest rather than a checklist of sights, that’s exactly the kind of trip I build.

Through my. affliation with Fora Travel, I have access to Virtuoso, Hyatt Privé, Four Seasons Preferred Partner, Marriott Luminous, and Accor Héra — giving my clients real benefits at partner properties, not just a booking.

Planning fees start at $250 adn award flight booking with your points or miles is $150.