A trusted filter for families who travel well.
Maison Voyage grew from a simple realisation: between us, we have a lot to share. We have visited more than 70 countries, travelled with a young daughter across four continents, and spent years working out what actually makes a trip worth the money. We love travelling well — but we have never seen the point of spending more than necessary to do it. The sweet spot between quality and value is exactly where you will find every recommendation on this site. Every verdict comes from a real stay and a real opinion.
Built on real trips. Written with real opinions.
We are parents who love to travel well and have learned — sometimes the hard way — what actually makes a family holiday work. Not the brochure version. The real version: the transfer that took three hours instead of forty minutes, the kids club that didn’t open until our daughter was already too old for it, the restaurant that looked perfect online and served dinner at 7:30pm to a toddler who needed to eat at 6. We have made those mistakes so you don’t have to.
We write verdicts, not descriptions. If a hotel room is small, we say so. If a restaurant is overrated, we say that too. We never confuse enthusiasm with accuracy — and we never write about somewhere we haven’t been.
Every article is built around one question: is this trip worth it? We give you the answer, the tradeoffs, and the logistics. You make the call. Our job is to make that call easier, faster, and better-informed.
We pay for our own stays. When we recommend something, it is because we would do it again ourselves — full stop. Our readers’ trust is the only thing that makes this worth doing.
“Between us, we have visited more than 70 countries. We have strong opinions about most of them.”
Maison Voyage is built by a Brazilian-Finnish couple based in Zurich. Between us we have visited more than 70 countries, travelled with a young daughter across four continents, and spent a lot of time working out what actually makes a trip worth the money. Brazilian warmth and instinct for experience. Finnish precision and intolerance for waste. Swiss context and a genuinely cosmopolitan outlook. Four languages spoken natively. We love travelling well — but we hate overspending. Everything we recommend sits at the intersection of those two things: the best we found for a price point that makes sense.
What you can expect from every piece of content on this site.
We have one rule: write what you would tell a close friend who asked for your honest opinion. Not what sounds good. Not what avoids offending anyone. What is actually true, specific, and useful.
- A clear verdict at the top of every article — no burying the conclusion at the end.
- Specific details that matter for families: room size, transfer times, kids’ club age minimums, playground quality, restaurant hours.
- Honest downsides alongside genuine praise. No hotel is perfect. We tell you both.
- A summary table at the end of every article so you can scan the key facts without reading everything.
- When you book something we recommend, we may earn a small referral fee at no cost to you. We only recommend places we have personally stayed in and would recommend to a friend regardless. Our editorial judgement is never influenced by commercial relationships.