openBalticsby Hamilton & Chase Tours
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Our story

Two locals, one shared idea.

openBaltics started in 2024, when two travel professionals from the Baltics stopped sending guests to other people's tours and began building the trips they actually believed in.

01 · The starting point

Two careers in Baltic travel, and one idea we could not let go of.

We are two local travel professionals. For years we worked inside the Baltic travel industry: planning trips, guiding guests, and watching the same problem repeat itself. The region was being sold by people who had never lived here.

In 2024 we decided to do it ourselves. We pooled what we knew, registered a small company, and ran our first season the same year. Two years on, it is still just the two of us, and that is exactly the point.

02 · The principle

We do not aggregate.

Most multi-country operators in this region are intermediaries. They take a booking, then call somebody local. The traveller pays the markup. The local does the work.

We do not run that model. Every trip is planned and run by the two of us, alongside people who live in the country you are visiting. We stay small on purpose, and we turn down work we cannot do well.

03 · How we plan a trip

A long form, a short call, a draft within two days.

We don't sell off the shelf. Every catalogue tour can be run privately, on your dates, with whatever changes the trip needs to make sense for the people taking it. Most of what we send out is half catalogue and half custom.

You fill in the long form. We read it, then call you, usually within a day. Within two days you have a written itinerary with hotels named, a fixed day by day, and a fixed price.

04 · What we leave out

No Booking, no Viator, no smart matching.

We are not on Booking.com. We are not on Viator. We don't run a marketplace, we don't list other operators' tours under our brand, and we don't have an AI that builds itineraries.

We also don't do hen weekends, helicopter transfers, or anything that calls itself "luxury Baltic." The Baltic states are not Provence, they are not the Alps, and a tour that pretends otherwise is selling a fantasy. We sell what's actually here.

05 · Where we go from here

Slower, not bigger.

We do not want to become a big company. We want to keep planning a small number of trips well, add countries only when we can run them ourselves, and still be the two people who answer your email in five years. If we ever have to choose between growing and staying good, we will stay good.

Our Story · Two Locals, One Small Baltic Travel Company · openBaltics