Our Story
Ruvoni exists because family travel planning is broken, and nobody is fixing it for the people who need it most.
My parents visit from India once or twice a year. They fly sixteen hours to spend a few weeks with their grandchildren. Every visit, we try to plan a trip together: me, my wife, our two daughters (ages 4 and 12), and my parents, including my 70-year-old father who has glaucoma.
The last time we tried to plan a trip, it took nine hours across three days. Nine hours of cross-referencing hotel reviews for elevator mentions and lighting. Nine hours of checking whether activities had shade, flat paths, and options that worked for a 4-year-old AND a 12-year-old. Nine hours of building a schedule that wouldn't exhaust my parents or bore my oldest or unravel by 5pm.
I opened Expedia, Google Travel, and TripAdvisor. Every single one gave me the same experience: here are flights, here are hotels, figure out the rest. None of them knew that my father needs well-lit spaces. None of them knew that a 4-year-old plus a 2pm activity equals a meltdown.
And I'm someone who genuinely likes planning trips. Most parents just give up and book the all-inclusive again.
Ruvoni is the first travel planning platform built for families. Specifically for the complexity that comes with multiple ages, accessibility needs, and the constraint that the youngest traveler sets the floor while the oldest sets the terrain.
We don't give you 200 options and a set of filters. We give you the trip that actually fits your family, right now, at their current ages. Every flight, hotel, and activity is scored with a Family Score that reflects how well it works for your specific group, not families in general.
The hotel isn't just "good." It's good for THIS family, with THESE ages, with THESE needs, at THIS moment in time. And next year, when the 4-year-old is 5 and the glaucoma has progressed, the answer changes.
Erika is your family's travel concierge. One conversation. She learns who's coming, how old everyone is, and what traveling together actually means for your family. Then she builds the trip where you stop being the project manager and start being in it.
She's warm, confident, and never vague. She gives real recommendations with conviction, not "it depends." She knows that a 4-year-old in a car is different from a 4-year-old on a plane. She knows that three families with seven kids is not the same trip as one family with two kids, even if the destination is identical.
Erika doesn't ask "what's your budget?" She shows you real prices and lets you decide. She doesn't dump a list of options. She finds the intersection where everyone's needs are met. Simultaneously.
American families spend somewhere between $3,000 and $10,000 on a single vacation. That's often the largest discretionary purchase a family makes all year. And most of them are planning it with tools that know less about their family than their grocery delivery app knows about their diet.
You get maybe 15 summers with your kids before they're off with friends, off to college, off into their own lives. Grandparents feel this even more acutely. The window where three generations can share a trip is shorter than you think.
We're building the tool that makes sure those trips actually work for everyone who shows up.
RA is the founder and builder of Ruvoni. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he's a first-generation Indian-American father of two daughters who started building this because the trip his family keeps talking about kept not happening, not because they didn't want to go, but because planning it was a part-time job.
Ruvoni is operated by Ignite Vibe Solutions LLC.