Planning Scope

What Bluebird helps you plan

We plan trips and connect you with licensed operators and locals we trust, and now and then we host a Pop-Up Lodge ourselves. Here is what we help coordinate, what you book directly, and where our local network adds signal.

What We Help Plan

Bluebird is an advisory and local-introduction service. We design the trip plan and help you make better booking decisions; you book and pay providers directly unless we agree otherwise in writing.

Planning Scope

Custom itinerary design for your dates, group, ability level, and budget
Destination and timing recommendations based on seasonality, snow patterns, and trip fit
Lodging area guidance and stay-style recommendations
Airport routing, transfers, daily mountain transport, and flex-day planning
Lift ticket, rental, lesson, guide, and sidecountry recommendations
Restaurant, après, asado, and cultural recommendations
Introductions to trusted local contacts where our network is strong
Light support while you travel when the plan needs a quick adjustment

Booked Directly By You

Flights, insurance, visas, and passport requirements
Lodging, lift tickets, rentals, lessons, guides, and transfers
Meals, drinks, gratuities, equipment, and personal extras
Any activity operated by a third-party guide, lodge, resort, or local provider

What it costs to ride with us

Three ways in, and a free call before any of them. Tell us what you want out of the week and we will tell you which one fits — or tell you it is none of them.

Bluebird plans trips, books suppliers and makes introductions where our network is strong. Payment schedules and cancellation terms are set out in full on the policy page.

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Free intro call

A no-pressure call about the trip you want.

Freeno pressure

A relaxed call about the trip you are dreaming of. We trade ideas, give honest direction, and you decide whether you want us to build anything.

30-minute intro call
Honest ideas and direction
No obligation to book

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30-minute intro call
Honest ideas and direction
No obligation to book
Talk through dates, group and budget
Destination and timing ideas
Decide together which of the three fits

Talk through dates, group and budget
Destination and timing ideas
Decide together which of the three fits

You book it yourself

Book-It-Yourself Trips

We plan it. You book it yourself.

$299planning fee

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The plan, and us a message away. You book every piece yourself, direct, at the public price.

Flights, beds, transport and lift days in one plan
What each piece costs, with the links to book it
Our local contacts, and us on message before and during the trip
A chat with others there around the same time

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Flights, beds, transport and lift days in one plan
What each piece costs, with the links to book it
Our local contacts, and us on message before and during the trip
A chat with others there around the same time
Per person on a window we join; per group of up to 5 on your own dates
Join one of our windows, or pick your own dates
Non-refundable: the work on your plan starts the day you pay
You book and pay every provider directly

Per person on a window we join; per group of up to 5 on your own dates
Join one of our windows, or pick your own dates
Non-refundable: the work on your plan starts the day you pay
You book and pay every provider directly

Everything handled

Pop-Up Lodges

All-in and hosted: bed, meals and rides to the mountain.

All inone price per bed

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We take a whole house for the week and run it. One total price covers the bed, the food, the transfers and the people in it.

Your bed in the house, breakfast and lunch every day
Airport and mountain transfers
Someone from Bluebird running the house all week
A small group, capped and never oversold

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Your bed in the house, breakfast and lunch every day
Airport and mountain transfers
Someone from Bluebird running the house all week
A small group, capped and never oversold
The number differs by house, so each trip lists its own
Paid to Bluebird, on the schedule set out in the policy
Lift passes and flights are the only things left on you
This one is a package, and we say so

The number differs by house, so each trip lists its own
Paid to Bluebird, on the schedule set out in the policy
Lift passes and flights are the only things left on you
This one is a package, and we say so

We plan and book it

Custom Trips

We plan and book the whole trip, just for your group.

Quotedplanning fee per trip

Plan a custom trip

Your dates and your group, in Chile and Argentina. We build the plan, book the pieces, and put you with the drivers, guides and hosts we use ourselves.

Free intro call included
Transfers, a private driver, lodging and licensed guides
Cat-ski and heli days with operators we know
One revision and a pre-trip call

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Free intro call included
Transfers, a private driver, lodging and licensed guides
Cat-ski and heli days with operators we know
One revision and a pre-trip call
The planning fee is quoted for your trip, not a flat rate
Non-refundable once the plan goes out
You pay the hotels, guides and operators for the trip itself
We set out each supplier's own terms before you commit to anything

The planning fee is quoted for your trip, not a flat rate
Non-refundable once the plan goes out
You pay the hotels, guides and operators for the trip itself
We set out each supplier's own terms before you commit to anything

Good to know

Flights and travel insurance are yours on all three
Payment schedules and cancellation terms are on the policy page
Off Map destinations — by application, via the waitlist