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Jani Miller, CTC, DS, LS

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Interests & Specialties

Jani Miller joined Central Travel in 1977 due to a passion for travel and she hasn’t stopped traveling since! She specializes in the following areas:

  • Adventure Travel
  • Africa – East & South
  • Health & Fitness
  • Golf Travel

Jani Is located in the Heatherdowns Blvd office in Toledo.

Expert Bio

In addition to a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC), Ms. Miller holds a Destination Specialist certification for Africa, is an Adventure Travel Lifestyle Specialist, and a Certified Lifestyle Specialist for Golf. She is an Azamara Platinum Globe Travel Professional, a Uniworld River Cruise Specialist, a Langham Hotels Specialist and has completed Lindblad's LEXpert course and the Seabourn Academy of advanced luxury-travel-industry training.

Jani is also a Viking Master River Cruise Expert and has taken river cruises with AmaWaterways, Avalon, Viking, and Uniworld in Europe and Russia. She has completed Avalon Waterways Specialist program, the Globus Tour Expert program and has earned her MBA as an Independent Travel Specialist with Monograms. Her active travel passion is supported by holding a Backroads Specialist certification.

Some of her favorite golf destinations include:

  • In Turks & Caicos stay at The Somerset at Grace Bay and play Provo Golf Club - this 18-hole Championship course has been voted the 5th best in the Caribbean by USA Today's Reader's Choice. 
  • Stay in a lovely Hilltop Suite at Cape Kidnappers and play the fabulous course designed by Tom Doak – consistently rated the #1 course in New Zealand.
  • Stay at Four Seasons Scottsdale at Troon North and play The Pinnacle & Monument courses at Troon North – both award-winning Tom Weiskopf courses and the newly redesigned Ambiente Course at Camelback Golf Club
  • Play the Norman course at Red Sky Golf Club in Vail Valley rated a perfect 20 by Golf Odyssey. Stay at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek.
  • Play the Els Club Teluk Datai designed as a tribute to nature is an 18-hole Par 72, 6,750-yard championship golf course set in the beautiful island of Langkawi, just off the Northwest Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Stay at the award-winning Datai in the Ocean Villas.
  • St Regis Princeville, Kauai HI, with the newly renovated Robert Trent Jones Jr. Makai Golf Club - a must play!
  • Sandals Emerald Bay, Great Exuma Bahamas featuring Greg Norman's award-winning Emerald Reef Golf Club.
  • The Lodge at Sea Island which features 54 holes of extraordinary championship golf.
  • Pueblo Bonito Resorts, Cabo San Lucas with golf at Quivira, Cabo Real or Cabo del Sol.
  • Four Seasos Resort, Lana'i - tee off at the championship Jacl Nicklaus-designed Manele Golf Course - its stunning!
  • The Ritz Carlton Kapalua Resort, on Maui one of the few in Hawaii to offer three 18-hole championship layouts - The Bay, The Village, and The Plantation.
  • The White Witch in Jamaica – stay at The Hyatt Zilara, Half Moon or Round Hill.
  • Torrey Pines Lodge where you received guaranteed tee times at both the North and the South course.
  • The Ritz at Amelia Island - play The Golf Club of Amelia Island, Fernandina Golf Club, Osprey Cove, and Royal Amelia Golf Links.
  • The Gleneagles Hotel which features the challenge of the King's, the secluded charms of the Queen's, or the nine-hole Wee Course. The exceptional PGA Centenary Course designed by Jack Nicklaus was the venue for the 40th Ryder Cup matches in 2014.
  • The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island which is a golfer’s paradise with five competitively designed master golf courses.
  • The Grand Del Mar Resort in San Diego - play Tom Fazio's championship golf course on property.
  • Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in southwestern PA - play Shepherd's Rock & Mystic Rock - designed by Pete Dye.
  • Ocean Dunes and SeaLinks Golf Club in Phan Thiet, Vietnam

MY ADVENTURES

IMG 8224Another amazing experience in Africa – our favorite destination!  We spent time in Rwanda and Tanzania. Prior to gorilla tracking we spent a couple nights in Kilgali, a fun city with lots of activity. A city tour and a visit to the Genocide Memorial is a must do. We stayed at The Retreat in Kilgali https://heavenrwanda.com/ and it was lovely.  Truly a boutique property located in the heart of the city. Service was outstanding, rooms amazing and F&B quite good. King Charles and Camilla stayed here in June!  Excellent open air fitness center open 24/7.

We then took the beautiful three hour drive to go Gorilla trekking. We stayed at The Singita Kwitonda Lodge https://www.luxurysafarilodges.com/lodges/singita-kwitonda-lodge-rwanda itwas ‘over the top’ and exceeded our expectations.  We stayed in their two bedroom suite. The lodge was built in 2019 – very close to Volcanos National park for Gorilla Trekking.  Gorilla permits are now $1,500pp – up from $500pp in 2007.

We flew from Kilgali to Sasakwa, the airport for Grumeti Reserves on Costal Airlines, a scenic three hour flight. We stayed at the Singita Faru Faru Lodge https://singita.com/lodge/singita-faru-faru-lodge  - it was also ‘over the top’ in all aspects.  We had been to Singita Grumeti  reserves https://singita.com/region/grumeti/ before and stayed at Sasakwa and Sabora Tented Camp – each lodge has its own feel -  Faru Faru is next to the Grumeti River and has its own watering hole – game viewing from the lodge was excellent.  We had site visits at Sasakwa and Sabora - important to note – the Sabora Tented Camp has been totally redone – no longer an Ernest Hemingway  feel – more contemporary.  Our favorite was Sabora but with the change, it’s now Faru Faru.

Other:

  • Would suggest just one night in Kilgali – do the city tour the next day, visit the Genocide memorial then drive directly to Kwitonda (3 hour drive or a 30-minute helicopter flight).
  • Stay at Kwitonda for at least 3 nights – so much to do there and the rooms are amazing.
  • We knew Kwitonda would provide gators, walking stick and backpack but was unaware they also provided boots. With luggage limited to just 33 pounds, less is better when packing.
  • Our guides were awesome – Bridge in Kilgali and Peterlis at Faru Faru where extremely knowledgeable and fun! Bridge was able to secure a bouquet of 60 roses (for our 30th anniversary) in Rwanda to give to us immediately after Gorilla trekking - in the rain forest.
  • DL is far superior to KML in all aspects, but KML is the only option from AMS to KGL and JRO to AMS.
  • Security in AMS is still a problem – we were lucky: it only took us 1.5 hours to get through. They have 20 state of the art bays but short staffed so only 3 were open. Make sure you have at least a three hour layover in AMS.
  • Kwitonda and Faru Faru both had an evening of local entertainment which was quite fun. Kwitonda also had fun birthday gifts for John and of course a birthday cake.

This was certainly a trip of a lifetime!

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