Tiffany Hawk is a writer and travel-industry insider who earned that role the hard way – as a flight attendant. After her first two years in the air, she filled her passport, literally, and had 48 more pages squeezed in. She’s still traveling and has reviewed hundreds of restaurants and hotels. Her most memorable stays include a hostel in Hong Kong, the nearby Metropole Hotel (think SARS), and a penthouse on the Crystal Serenity where she’d like to spend the rest of her life.

Tiffany’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Westways, Sunset magazine, and has been anthologized by Travelers Tales. She is currently working on her MFA at UC Riverside and has served as travel editor of Coast magazine, editor-in-chief of Preferred Destinations magazine, and as a contributing editor at the acclaimed travel site globorati.com.