The best travel advice comes from a combination of experience, relationships, and really good judgment.
It's why I invest in my own travel first: staying at the hotels, experiencing the destinations, and getting to know the people and places I recommend firsthand.
With a formal education in Hospitality & Tourism Management and 6 years spent building relationships in business and travel, I've learned that knowing what's best is only part of the job.
The real value is knowing what's worth it, what's right for you, and where the details make a difference.
So you can spend your time and money with confidence.
ADVISING ANYTHING HIGH-END IS AN ART FORM.
Great travel is rarely the work of one person. It's built through relationships—with the hotels, destination partners, guides, and travel experts who know a place best.
As a proud member of Virtuoso and an independent affiliate of Avenue Two Travel, Melted & Moved is connected to an extraordinary network of people around the world.
And while the preferred amenities and added perks are nice, the relationships behind them matter even more.
They're the reason someone knows it's your anniversary. The reason a hotel prioritizes your upgrade. The reason a problem gets fixed quickly. And the reason there's someone we know and trust looking after you wherever you go.
Because who you have behind your trip matters.
You're only as good as the people you surround yourself with.
Luckily, we're in very good company.
HEATED BATHROOM FLOORS
HOtel Weakness
A TRIP ON THE BOOKS
NEVER
WITHOUT
ROOM SERVICE
Guilty Pleasure
OLD FASHIONED
COCKTAIL
ORDER
A SENSE OF PLACE
HOTEL NON-NEGOTIABLE
ITALY, ALWAYS
Worth the Jet Lag
INTJ/ ENNEAGRAM 8/GEMINI
Personality
Type
ALWAYS ON BRAND
Before Melted & Moved, I spent years working in my family’s recruiting business, eventually opening and running my own branch. No matter how busy life became, though, travel was always something I made room for.
Just before a trip to Bali, I sold my branch and closed one chapter without knowing exactly what the next would look like.
Somewhere along the way, I realized that travel had always been how I marked time. I can tell you where I was, who I was with, and what season of life I was in by the trips I've taken.
That belief became the beginning of Melted & Moved.
Melted: to be altered or transformed.
Moved: to change position, develop, or progress.
Because the best trips do both.
They give us stories we'll tell for years, connect us to the people we're traveling with, and become markers of the lives we're building.
Melted & Moved was created to make more of those moments possible—and to make sure the trips you make room for are worth taking.
Travel has always been how I mark the chapters of my life.
The places I've been remind me of who I was, who I was with, and what mattered in that season.
The best trips don't just move us through the world. They leave us a little changed by it.
I’m Kate Moore. Founder. Storyteller. Hotel snob turned professional enabler of taking the trip.
BEHIND
the BRAND
A PEAK INSIDE MY LIFE
Reflexology, supplements, saunas, spa days —I love a good wellness rabbit hole.
Yes — I prefer
My favorite people - and the reason the trips matter.
I hate heights, but love pushing myself outside my comfort zone.
If I didn't work in travel, I'd be an interior designer.
The trip to Bali that turned travel from a passion into a career.
What is your most treasured possession?
My bed. I can go just about anywhere with my people and never feel homesick, but nothing beats coming home to my own bed.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Building a life that has room for both ambition and adventure.
What is your most marked characteristic?
Duality. I want the plan and the freedom to change it.
Where would you most like to live?
Right where I do. I just want to be on a flight every other month...and keep coming home.
If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
The owner of a very beautiful hotel on the Mediterranean.
What’s your idea of perfect happiness?
A beautiful hotel, a fully charged laptop, dinner reservations, nowhere we need to be, and the words, “Let’s book it.”
What’s your greatest extravagance?
Travel. The limit does not exist.
What do you most appreciate in friends?
Good judgement, wit, spontaneous voice notes, and knowing exactly who she is.
Which historical figure do you most identify yourself with?
Julia Child. My grandmother loved her, and I get it: career reinvention, travel, good food, and a very strong opinion about how things should be done.
What is your Motto?
Good things take time. Great things take courage.
Still here? Perfect. If we're going to work together, we gotta go a little deeper. Here are my answers to the famously big questions, a la Vanity Fair.
QUESTIONNARE
PROUST
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— SHannon & mike
WE COULD HAVE PLANNED THE TRIPourselves. IT JUST WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THIS good.
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