Travel Writer & Co-Author

Katie York

I’m Katie York. I write about the slower side of travel — the spa rituals, the family dinners, the wedding venues and quiet rooftops. Michael handles the gear-heavy posts and most of the parks. I tend to land on the food, the wellness, the cultural festivals, and the practical FAQs that you only know after a few stays.

We’ve been to Hotel Xcaret together more times than I can count, and most of what I write comes from those stays — the booking spreadsheet, the spa-day notes, the kids-club observations, the dietary requests we’ve made and how they were handled, the wedding ceremony I sat through in the rain.

My goal isn’t to sell you a fantasy. It’s to tell you what the third night in a Casa Tortuga rooftop suite actually feels like, what the hammam ritual is like for someone who has never done one, and which restaurant you’ll want to skip on a Tuesday. The kind of detail I wished a stranger had told me before our first stay.