 | Gwen DeWalt, CTC, President & Owner
Email: gwen@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Having traveled extensively with her husband on business throughout the years, Gwen knows firsthand both the corporate and leisure sides of travel. Gwen and her husband purchased Four Seasons Travel (founded in 1980) in 1987 and she is a hands-on manager of the company. Gwen particularly enjoys cruising and her favorite destination is South Africa with Ireland and Italy coming in close seconds. Picking favorites is hard because every place is wonderful with its own specific attractions and qualities. There really isn't a place that he has been that she did not like! She particularly enjoyed a recent to Beijing & Shanghai, and prior to that Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore!
Expert Bio
Luxury Cruising, Meetings and Group Travel, Golf Travel; Disney College of Knowledge.; Orient Express Master Bellini Ambassador
My Recent Trips
Trips include a cruise on the Mayan Riviera, Alaska cruising, the resorts of Turnberry in Florida and Aviara in California; as well as Pebble Beach, California. Australia and New Zealand. South America and the Orinocco River. Mediterranean cruising. South Africa including Capetown, Mala Mala, Singita Lebombo, and Royal Malewane. Visited India by Private Jet in 2008. Tahiti on the Paul Gauguin. Mexico City. Barging the canals of France. Most recent trip was a cruise from Hong Kong to Singapore with multiple stops in Vietnam and Thailand, Jackson Hole, Wyoming was a 2010 highlight. A favorite U.S. destination is Vermont and The Equinox Golf Resort and Spa. Beijing & Shanghai as part of the Virtuoso Chairmen's Event was a definite highlight.
|  | Susan Dischner, CTC, DS
Email: susan@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
LEISURE MANAGER: Susan knows South Africa well, having been there many times and has worked with all the major tour operators for that area, as well as arranging extensive independent travel in the area. She is also familiar with Botswana and has visited the lodges and camps there as well as experiencing The Blue Train, Capetown, and many of the game parks throughout South Africa. In addition she has traveled in Kenya and Tanzania and is experienced in booking travel to those areas.
As a Golf specialist she has arranged countless group golf trips throughout the world. An avid golfer herself, Susan understands the nuances of how to fit specific clients to perfectly matched golf destinations.
Susan has sailed on all the luxury/premium cruise lines to ports worldwide including Southeast Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Crypus as well as most European ports, including river cruising. Her land travel has taken her to U.S. and Canada locations, Scandinavia, Spain, and China.
Expert Bio
susan@fourseasonstrvl.com: Golf Specialist; nine years as one of Travel and Leisure Magazines top 125 travel consultants. Noted for her specialty in the field of golf. One of three consultants recently featured in "Golf for Women" magazine. She is a graduate of the Disney College of Knowledge, an Aussie Specialist, an Orient Express Master Bellini Ambassador, and both a Pacific Rim and South Africa specialist.
Manager of the Leisure Department of Four Seasons, Susan has sailed on and sold all of the luxury cruise lines as well as the premium lines. In addition she has traveled with the top tour companies and sold them throughout the years, making her extremely knowledgeable about all of these travel opportunities.
My Recent Trips
Australia and New Zealand; Spain and France; Cruse from Hong Kong to Singapore with stops in Vietnam and Thailand; Adriatic and Italy; Canyon Ranch; India; South America; Mexico City, Regent Seven Seas Cruise visiting Greece, Turkey, Israel, and Cyprus. Her experience in the Holy Land was life-changing and a long time dream realized.
|  | Heidi Wohlert, CTC, DS
Email: heidi@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Heidi has been a leisure travel consultant for 25 years. A native of Germany, she loves planning itineraries to that country. She is adept at planning detailed itineraries, both for international and domestic travel. She enjoys interacting with clients, and her enthusiasm for travel is reflected in her desire to create the most memorable trip possible for them. She specializes in luxury cruising, luxury hotels and resorts around the world, family travel, foreign independent travel, and adventure travel.
Expert Bio
heidi@fourseasonstrvl.com
Heidi is a native of Germany and has traveled to all 7 continents. She is a
a Graduate of the Disney College of Knowledge, Latin America Destination Specialist, , Anarctica Specialist; Egypt Specialist, Master Bellini Ambassador for Orient Express Hotels and Trains, and Cunard Commodore.
My Recent Trips
The Treasures of Japan aboard Silver Seas Shadow. China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and a Yangtze River Cruise. Has cruised on Residensea's "The World," all Radisson Seven Seas Ships, and many of Holland America's ships. Has trekked in Tibet, cruised to Anarctica, and visited the Galapagos, Rio, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. Heidi has traveled most recently to Peru including Machu Picchu and Colca Canyon, South Africa,and Botswana, Austria, and Egypt, as well as returning to her native Germany.
|  | Carolyn LeFleur, CTC, DS
Email: carolyn@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
carolyn@fourseasonstrvl.com Carolyn is very experienced in multi-generational travel, having done so with her own family and planned family group travel for clients with as many as twenty-five family members. Her interest in history enables her to augment clients' trips with special added information and guidance regarding historic sites they may be visiting. She has cruised on most of the major lines, large and small ships, and appreciates the importance of finding the right ship for each client. This emphasis on each person's particular needs and expectations is her main focus in working with clients, insuring that every trip is a memorable experience. Her expertise in honeymoon planning is evident with the special interest taken in her clients who are planning honeymoons. She believes that all couples are unique and deserve honeymoons designed especially for them.
Expert Bio
Carolyn has been a travel consultant for 20 years...during that time she has accumulated the following designation: Shamrock Club Ireland Specialist; Graduate of the Disney College of Knowledge; Destination Wedding Specialist; Luxury Cruising; Honeymoons; Group Cruising; Family Vacations; Active Travel; Orient Express expert; Luxury Cruise; Mediterranean Cruises; Multi-Generational Travel; Orient Express Master Bellini Ambassador, Disney College of Knowledge. She has recently been included in a list of leading travel counselors in a new travel e-guide series.
My Recent Trips
Extensive cruising throughout the eastern and western Mediterranean, French Polynesia, Caribbean, and South America including the Amazon. Land tours and trips include New Zealand, Ireland, Barcelona, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Turkey (Istanbul & Ephesus,) Domestic travel throughout the United States, particulary the west coast and southeast U.S. Favorite travel is taking granddaughter to Disney World! Multiple visits have given her great expertise and insider knowledge about the ins and outs of Disney properties. Most recently she visited the luxury resort on the Mexican Riviera...Maroma. She found it an excellent spot for honeymoons, anniversaries, and getaways. Another favorite spot for similar trips are the Maldives, which she has visited.
|  | Jennifer Hicks
Email: jennifer@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
LEISURE: A Colorado native, Jennifer specializes in ski trips but is equally at home selling the Caribbean or Mexico. Jennifer enjoys planning mother/daughter trips, having done several of those with her adult daughter. As an extension of that, she likes assisting family groups planning special occasion get-togethers. She is adept at customized independent travel and enjoys doing that on her own, most recently completing a trip in Southern France including the French Riviera and Provence. She likes to sell Windstar Cruises, having particularly enjoyed their ships, but is experienced with other cruise lines as well. She is a river cruise specialist. One of her favorite types of travel to experience and plan is adventure and experiential vacations.
Expert Bio
jennifer@fourseasontrvl.com
Prior to joining Four Seasons Travel, Jennifer was with American Express in Atlanta and Savannah. She was manager of the Savannah office. In 1999 she won the American Express Pacesetter award and achieved their Trendsetter and Star Performer Achievement awards numerous times. She is a Master Bellini Ambassador with Orient Express Trains and Hotels. She has specialties in St. Lucia, River Cruising, and Skiing. Jennifer has been in the travel industry for over 15 years. A native of Colorado and a skiier, she has firsthand knowledge of ski resorts. She is also skilled at planning western experiential trips for individuals and families. She is a St. Lucia specialist, a Ski specialist, Mexico specialist and particularly likes the Haciendas of Mexico. A particular love and specialty is river boats and she recently achieved a specialty in that particular form of cruising.
My Recent Trips
Extensive travel in the western U.S., St. Lucia; Southern France, Provence, and the French Riviera. She has enjoyed river cruising during the Christmas Markets in Germany and tulip time in Holland. Travels to Mexico include Zihuatanejo and the haciendas of the Yucatan Peninsula. Other favorite destinations are Bermuda and South Africa. She has traveled throughout Europe visiting the known and not so well known destinations Most recently she visited Croatia and Italy via cruise ship. Just prior to that she visited Italy on an independent adventure trip. Most recently she sailed on Seabourn doing the Amalfi Coast and Croatia, Rome to Venice, with extra time in Venice. As well as Oceania Athens to Rome including the Amalfi Coast and Siciliy, with extra time in Athens.
|  | Amy Paderewski
Email: amy@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
LEISURE: Family travel, Fishing, Cruising, Skiing, Caribbean; Honeymoon and Anniversary Travel, Graduate Disney College of Knowledge; Orient Express Master Belllini Ambassador; Spa specialist..has been to Canyon Ranch both in the Berkshires and Arizona numerous times.
Expert Bio
Having children and a strong interest in travel, Amy is familiar with family-oriented resorts and has done lots of travel planning of that genre. She is experienced at planning multi-generational trips. She has scuba dived from many islands in the Caribbean and is an avid skiier. Her family owns property at Beaver Creek, so she is particularly familiar with the Beaver Creek and Vail ski areas. Because of the proximity of Disney World to Savannah, she has been numerous times and is very experienced with the Disney properties and an expert in the area of Disney Cruises. She is also very knowledgeable about deep sea fishing.
My Recent Trips
Vieques, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Costa Rica, Beaver Creek, Riviera Maya of Mexico, Disney World, Disney Cruise, St. Martin & St. Lucia. Favorites are Tortuga Bay in the Dominican Republic and Maroma in Mexico. Has cruised on Disney, Royal Caribbean, and Windstar.
|  | Rebecca Lane
Email: rebecca@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Rebecca has been in the travel industry for several years with travel being a passion prior to entering the field. She especially enjoys planning honeymoons, family travel, adventure travel, and cruises. She is very familiar with the Caribbean and Mexico as well as Costa Rica, having travelled to her family’s vacation home there numerous times. As an avid fisherman, she especially enjoys planning destination fishing trips across the globe. Europe is another area she is very familiar with, particularly Spain having studied abroad there in college. She enjoys working with her clients extensively to ensure they have the best vacation imaginable and her passion for travel certainly shows through in her work.
Expert Bio
rebecca@fourseasonstrvl.com
Rebecca is a Savannah native and has travelled to most parts of North America, the Caribbean and Costa Rica. She has also travelled extensively throughout Europe, including Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, England, Norway, and the Czech Republic. She is a Graduate of the Disney College of Knowledge, Master Bellini Ambassador for Orient Express Hotels and Trains, a Mexico Destination Specialist, Wedding and Honeymoon Specialist and recently finished her Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.).
My Recent Trips
Most recently, Rebecca hosted a Virtuoso Voyager Club group on the Seabourn Legend sailing roundtrip from St. Thomas to the British Virgin Islands, Antigua, St. Barth, and St. Martin. She and her husband also honeymooned in that same area staying on St. John and visiting the British Virgin Islands and St. Thomas during their trip. Some of her recent favorite trips have included a river boat cruise down the Danube river from Vienna to Nuremberg, a week touring various haciendas throughout the Yucatan peninsula, and family vacation to Elbow Cay in the Abacos, Bahamas
|  | Becky Morales
Email: becky@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Corporate Travel
Her specialty is in the area of corporate travel, but Becky also enjoys leisure travel on a personal level, having recently spent three weeks on a driving tour of Nova Scotia.
Expert Bio
Becky@fourseasonstrvl.com
Becky is Manager of our Corporate Travel Department. Prior to joining Four Seasons, Becky was with Carlson WagonLit Travel and World Travel Partners in Atlanta serving in a supervisory role while in those positions. She received special acclaim for customer service and excellence while with those companies. (Over ten years experience)
|  | Margaret Valente
Email: margaret@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Corporate Travel
Expert Bio
margaret@fourseasonstrvl.com
Margaret has sixteen years experience in corporate travel with much of that time in management positions. Most recently she was On Site Travel Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Savannah. Her employer, Carlson Wagonlit, cited her as a most valuable employee with competency in all areas of travel.
My Recent Trips
San Francisco Bay area.
South Florida including Fort Lauderdale
|  | Stacy Carver
Interests & Specialties
Accounting Manager
Expert Bio
stacy@fourseasonstrvl.com
Stacy began her career in the travel industry in 1989 with Eastern Airlines as a passenger service agent; she continued her career with American Airlines as Lead Agent and Passenger Service Agent where she received numerous accolades for her adeptness with passengers. Her airline experience gives her an added dimension as a backup corporate agent. Stacy also handles airline reporting and accounting functions.
My Recent Trips
New Zealand, South America and the Amazon, Mediterranean cruising
|  | Barbara Van Doren
Email: barbarav@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Barbara's years of cruising and visiting countries throughout the globe have made her a natural for the travel industry. She has cruised on Cunard, Celebrity, Holland America, Royal Caribbean and Windstar. This has given her an understanding of both large and small ship cruising and an appreciation of the nuances of each line. Barbara has travelled extensively throughout the U.S. as well as Canada and Mexico. Within Europe Barbara has visited a number of destinations, giving her an awareness of the many different cultural and geographic attractions of the continent. Among the places she has visited are Italy, France, British Isles, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Czech Republic. Her most in depth travels within Europe were along the French & Italian Rivieras, and the Amalfi coast in Italy, all of which are in high demand by today's travelers. She has also traveled to a majority of the Caribbean islands as well as Bermuda, giving her a wide scope of popular destinations. Her training as a Master Scuba diver has enhanced her experiences in these venues.
Expert Bio
Regent Seven Seas University, Oceania Cruise Specialist, Virtuoso Luxury Travel Specialist (Travel Agent University), Orient Express Bellini Club Ambassador, Explore Africa Specialist, Imperial Tours China Expert, Crystal Cruise Specialist, Dive Travel Specialist as well as a graduate of the Disney College of Knowledge. Travel as learning and enrichment are particularly important to Barbara. She has always sought opportunities to learn about different cultures, history, and art with her travels, and she enjoys helping clients seeking just such experiences. Barbara's background in business management, combined with her personal travel experiences and sense of adventure and absolute attention to detail make her a dedicated and enthusiastic consultant for the discerning traveler.
My Recent Trips
Barbara has a passion for cruising and has cruised numerous times in the Caribbean and in the Mediterranean. A favorite cruise was aboard the Wind Surf with visits in Portofino, St. Tropez, Monaco and Cannes. She has been multiple times to Italy, visiting Florence, Rome, and towns along the Amalfi coast. Barbara has cruised on both yacht-style and large ships to most islands in the Caribbean, including scuba diving in many locations, favorites being the Blue Hole (a Unesco World Heritage site) in Belize, Cozumel and St. Lucia. Barbara also enjoys skiing, and has travelled annually to Colorado to ski Vail and the surrounding resorts, as well as doing some alpine skiing when staying in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Barbara loves exploring coastal resorts in the United States, and recently stayed at The Cloister in Sea Island.
|  | Sue Wheeler
Email: sue@fourseasonstrvl.com
Interests & Specialties
Sue recently completed her certification with the Disney College of Knowledge. She has also earned Bellini Club certification with Orient Express, as well as completing the Virtuoso travel consultant course. Through her experiences in Alaska, Sue has developed a real affinity for expedition cruising. Her personal travels have also created a real passion for planning travel to the Hawaiian islands. Whether planning a weekend getaway, family vacation, international tour, or cruise, Sue brings her years of experience as a travel professional and as a traveler together fo fully understand and meet the needs of our clients.
Expert Bio
Sue has 20 years in the travel industry, both in the domestic and international areas. Her strong customer service skills make her an exceptional agent. Sue has visited the Hawaiian Islands ten times. She has cruised extensively and recently completed Princess Cruise Lines Commodore Specialist Training. Her tour experience enables her to select the right tour for the individual client, anticipating needs, questions, and desires.
My Recent Trips
An experienced cruiser, having sailed on Princess Cruise Line, Norwegian Cruise Line, Holland America Cruise Line, and Disney Cruises, Sue brings and in-depth knowledge of cruising to her profession.. She has also traveled abroad extensively with group tours and independently. Sue has visited most of Europe including France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, and Great Britain. Also Switzerland, Greece, and Turkey. Her tour of Egypt and a Nile cruise is one of her most treasured travel memories. Closer to home, Sue has visited Mexico, Yellowstone Park, and cruised the Caribbean many times. In addition she has spent time on land tours of Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Antigua, as well as the Bahamas. She has cruised Alaska twice, and visited the Hawaiian islands ten times.
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