Tripmasters is the consumer division of Solar Tours, a second generation family travel business. Maria Checa founded Solar Tours in 1984 to establish the first wholesale agency in the Washington DC area to specialize in vacations to Latin America. Maria had extensive experience as an owner and manager of travel agencies and airlines in both Peru and Nicaragua. She is a well known and respected figure in the travel industry. Her son Rafael Checa joined Solar Tours in 1997 and serves as its managing director. Rafael graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, served with distinction for 10 years as an infantry officer in the US Army and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business before joining the family business.

We have gradually and carefully expanded our destinations to include all of Latin America, Europe, Asia as well as the beaches of Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaii. We maintain our focus on reliably customizing complex vacation itineraries. Our experienced agents and our trip building and customization tools make it easy to plan flexible complex trips. Our long term productive relationships with airlines, hotels and partners at each destination allow us to provide our services reliably and at a compelling value to you.

Over time we built separate brands for each of our destinations. You may have heard of Latindestinations.com, Europeandestinations.com and Beachdestinations.com. Tripmasters is the brand we chose to unite all our brands and all our destinations under one umbrella.

We have built suggested itineraries which you can price and customize according to your budget and how much time you want to spend in each destination. We recommend hotels and offer transportation and activities in each stop of your itinerary. And you build and price all this in seconds. If you can’t find the itinerary you want from our suggested itineraries you can use our booking tools to build your own itinerary in seconds.

We have 25 years of hard work aiming at making your next vacation a success. You can plan most trips you want online but you may prefer to talk to our agents so they can advise or help build your vacation, they are waiting for your call.

Happy Trips!