We are a female-owned small business of over 50 years, invested in creating personalized vacations for our clients based on your interests but backed by our experience. We creatively and diligently complete all facets of travel for individuals, families, weddings and honeymoons, businesses, students, groups, religious, and custom independent travel.
Collectively our staff has over 100 years of experience in traveling and selling travel by land, sea and air. Our knowledge base of the world is vast.
You can read about us and each of our travel fortes below.
Suzan Rada, CTC
Suzan entered the travel industry in 1975 in her hometown of Chicago. For 2 years she worked alongside her brother who owned a travel agency, and while booking many warm winter vacations out of the windy city, she enrolled in the Eastern Airlines travel agent academy in Miami. She soon migrated to the warmer waters of South Beach Florida where for 5 years she planned ski trips for the Miami Ski Club, student groups for the University of Miami and traveled extensively through the Caribbean. In 1982 she discovered the Napa Valley and joined St. Helena Travel as office manager, later purchasing the business in January 1989.
Over the years she has worked as a corporate agent to the wine industry, group travel coordinator for small companies , and is still personal travel assistant to many members of the community. Her travel forte is in solving complicated, multi-faceted itineraries. She loves creating destination weddings, family reunions, and veers often to exotic adventure destinations. She cares deeply about her clients and works very hard to make every detail seamless around the world.
She is well traveled through both eastern and western Europe, by land, sea and river. Machu Picchu, Panama, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand have been visited recently. Her special places of interest now include Central Europe and Central America. She’s visited Cuba three times by both ship and air. Her emphasis is placed on independent journeys and special undiscovered destinations.
Suzan holds the designation CTC, Certified Travel Counselor, the only professional certificate program in the travel industry, through Wellesley College in 1991.
This year the agency proudly celebrates 51 years of service.
Send her a message at: suzan@sthelenatravel.com
Patti Antonaccio, MA, CTA
Patti has a passion for travel, especially throughout Europe. She has 28 years experience as a travel consultant, and has earned certification as a France, Provence, Switzerland, Ireland and Backroads Adventure Specialist.
Patti has traveled extensively throughout Europe, with special emphasis in Italy, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland. Her experience of traveling from Dublin to St Petersburg to Southeast Asia, has fine tuned her knowledge of those regions and enabled her to develop individualized itineraries for her clients. She can find the charming boutique hotel to a villa rental in Tuscany.
She believes there is a cruise ship for everyone, even for those who say they don’t think cruising would be right for them. There are numerous ship experiences from small to large ships, river boats, yachts, barges – a ship or boat for every personality. She has personally experienced large and small ocean faring ships, from budget to luxury to intimate river cruise experiences.
Patti is an avid reader and researcher of travel. She has a Masters of Arts degree in Counseling and is a skilled listener. Her clients benefit from the insightful questions regarding the type of experience her clients seek for their next travel adventure. She is ever watchful that all details will be attended to and nothing will fall through the cracks.
Patti will create a travel experience suited to your personality, budget and travel experience you seek.
Terrianne Kidd
Terrianne started in the travel business in 1985. Since that time, she has amassed a great deal of knowledge and experience in moving large and small groups of professional Entertainment Technicians from city to city and worldwide. She keeps them on schedule and removes their worries about the details.
Additionally, she is proficient in leisure and destination travel, anywhere on the globe. Terrianne is at the ready to help you with any and all of your travel needs, be it a large group of professionals needing to make show deadlines, or individuals wanting to escape to a vacation of a lifetime.