The trip is yours. The homework is ours.
For 49 years, families from Pawtucket and across New England have started their vacations at our desk — not in a search box. Tell us where you'd like to go and we'll build the rest.
You get a person — and it's the same person
Nancy A. McAdams opened Anchor Travel in June 1977 and has been planning Rhode Island's trips ever since — now working alongside her daughter Colleen Keane, her daughter-in-law Beverly Costello, and a small staff of travel consultants.
That continuity is the whole point. The person who plans your honeymoon is the person who will plan your family's Alaska cruise a decade later, and who will pick up the phone when a connection is missed in Frankfurt at two in the morning.
No call centre, no ticket number, no chat window that forgets you between sessions. One phone number, and someone on the end of it who already knows your file.
- Advisors who have been to the places they sell
- Accredited airlines, hotels and tour operators only
- One direct number, answered by someone who knows you
Six ways to spend your time off
Every trip below is built by a person, not a booking engine — and priced with you before anything is confirmed.
Cruises
From a seven-night Rhine sailing to a two-week Alaska itinerary — we match the ship to the traveler.
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Tours
Escorted coach touring, small-group travel, or an independent itinerary you follow at your own pace.
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Resorts
Adults-only, family-friendly or full luxury — plus the flights and transfers that make it seamless.
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Vacation Packages
Air, hotel, car and transfers assembled into one trip — most often built here, to your specifications.
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Honeymoons
Plan the trip, then let your guests contribute to it with an Anchor Travel honeymoon registry.
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Destinations
Where to go, when to go, and what's actually worth your afternoon once you're there.
Explore destinationsEuropean river cruising
Unpack once, wake up in a different country, and walk off the ship into the old town rather than a container port an hour outside it.
The Rhine, the Danube, the Seine and three more
A hundred and ninety guests, one unhurried dinner seating, and a berth in the middle of town. No sea days, no tender queues, and no motion — the river is flat. Most of the fare is already spent: meals, wine at the table, a guided walk in nearly every port.
- Castle-lined Rhine gorge, Vienna, Budapest, Normandy, the Douro
- Christmas market sailings from late November
- We book Uniworld, Viking and the rest — and know which deck to take
Nine places we get asked about most
Each one has a page of real detail — culture, seasons, what to do, where to eat — written by people who send travelers there.
Alaska
Glaciers calving into the Inside Passage, brown bears on the salmon runs, and the long light of a northern summer.
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Spain
Moorish palaces, world-class museums, late dinners of small plates, and a green northern coast most visitors never see.
Plan Spain
Peru
Machu Picchu at sunrise, the colonial arcades of Arequipa, and one of the great food cities of the world in Lima.
Plan Peru
New Orleans
A city that runs on music, wrought iron and roux — and the easiest long weekend on this list to reach from Providence.
Plan New Orleans
Brazil
Rio between the mountains and the sea, the thunder of Iguaçu Falls, and 4,600 miles of Atlantic coastline.
Plan Brazil
Germany
Rhine and Danube river cruising, Christmas markets, Bavarian lakes, and a capital that rebuilt itself in public.
Plan Germany
Jamaica
The Caribbean all-inclusive at its most relaxed — plus waterfalls, the Blue Mountains, and a nonstop flight away.
Plan Jamaica
Bali
Rice terraces, cliff temples above the surf, and resorts that make the long flight worth every hour.
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Australia
Sydney and Melbourne, the Great Barrier Reef, and a Red Centre that feels like another planet.
Plan AustraliaThree reasons that have not changed since 1977
Expertise
Our advisors have decades of personal and professional travel behind them. We know the good tours, the right hotels and the local shortcuts because we have been there — literally. And we work only with accredited, highly rated airlines, accommodations and tour operators.
Convenience
Don't spend an evening hunting for a deal only to discover the fine print — bags not included, that fare is members-only, the hotel is nowhere near where you thought. We plan every detail to your specifications so the only part left for you is looking forward to it.
Security
When the unexpected happens, it matters that someone is looking out for you. Flight delays, weather, a medical emergency abroad — an Anchor Travel advisor works the problem until you get where you need to go, safely.
Tell us roughly where and roughly when
That is genuinely enough to start. Call the office, send a note, or fill in the trip planner — we'll come back with real options.