Trendetna is a place to find something worth doing and book it in a few taps, with no part of the process designed to hurry you.
What the site does
Every experience here is run by an independent operator: a dive school, a guide, a boat owner, a small tour company. They already keep their availability and their prices in their own reservation system. Trendetna connects to that system, so the dates, the times, the ticket types and what each one costs are read from the operator as you look at the page, rather than from a copy taken last week.
When you book, you book here. Pick a time from the operator's live availability, pay on the site, and the reservation is created in their system; the ticket or reference that system issues comes back to you by email. You are not handed off to another website at the last step.
Alongside the catalogue there are three other things. A community feed, where travellers ask questions and post what they actually found. A trip planner that arranges real listings into days. And Etna, an assistant that answers from our catalogue and nothing else, which is why it can say that nothing here fits instead of inventing a venue.
Why booking with the operator matters
Much of what is sold as a local experience online has been resold several times before it reaches you. Every layer takes a cut, and every layer puts distance between you and the person who will actually meet you at the harbour.
Here the operator is named on every listing and has a page of their own showing everything they run. The price is theirs. The cancellation terms are theirs. The confirmation lands in their system. If something needs sorting out on the day, you know whose day it is.
It also means we show what they publish. Some pages are thinner than others, and we would rather have a listing with no description than one we wrote on an operator's behalf.
How the money works
The operator's price is the operator's price. We do not mark it up.
Where we charge a booking fee, it is a separate line at checkout, shown before you enter a card and never folded into the price. If you pay in a currency other than the operator's, a conversion fee covers what our payment processor charges us for the conversion, and the rate used is written on your receipt so it can be checked afterwards. Both figures, exactly as they stand right now, are on our how it works page, which reads them from the same system that runs the checkout.
What we earn is commission from the operator on what they sell. That is worth saying out loud: we do better when you go on the trip you actually wanted, not when you pay more than you meant to.
There are no countdown timers here, no notices that four other people are looking at this, no reviews we wrote ourselves, and no charge that appears after you have chosen.
Who runs it
Trendetna is operated by AVMDEVS LLC, of Sherman Oaks, California, United States. We do not publish a street address; hello@trendetna.com reaches a person.
If anything on this site contradicts anything on this page, that is a bug and we would want to know about it.