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Dec 22, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

4 Southern California stays you don't know

The founder of Opulist shows us around Newport Beach.

Dec 16, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

Surprising lessons I learned as a teen bellboy

A lively conversation with travel advisor Waverly Middleton on the trends reshaping how we travel—and her provocative take that adults should be…

Dec 8, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP and Waverly Middleton

November 2025

The 10 hotels to stay at in 2026 (+ podcast)

What do a clifftop Mexican villa and a popular airline's former HQ have in common? Both are on this list (and in this podcast).

Nov 29, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP and Britney Eschelman

13:05

6 Mexico hotels I've been gatekeeping

I grilled the hotelier couple behind Guerneville's River Electric on their Northern California town—here's where they'd take you.

Nov 24, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

Skip Joshua Tree. This secret hot spring hotel by San Diego is for insiders.

A hotel expert with a popular Substack shows us around her current home—Florence, Italy.

Nov 17, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP and Marissa Klurstein

Get pregnant at this hotel & you'll get a free party

The Marriott-Sonder affair might be hospitality's most striking breakup of the year (just ask the stranded guests).

Nov 11, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

A Live Coffee Chat with HAP CEO Brandon Berkson and Rolando Pujol, a.k.a The Retrologist

Watch Brandon Berkson's live interview with the maestro of retro architecture.

Nov 9, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP and Rolando Pujol

22:29

What Relais & Châteaux's CEO really thinks

The types of people staying at the new Faena New York. Plus, a call-out for anyone named Tess.

Nov 2, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

October 2025

I found Costa Rica's coolest affordable hotels for you

A Greek hotelier proves Santorini and Mykonos can be much more authentic than the doomsday overtourism headlines populating the internet.

Oct 20, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

I hated Punta Cana, so I went here

My media diet and the untold Dominican Republic hotels I've been gatekeeping.

Oct 12, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP

September 2025

Listen to our first HAP podcast that's not really a podcast here🎙️

Today's HAP Radio episode covers our 5-year anniversary, where to visit and stay this fall, and how we are now bringing the boutique hotels you discover…

Sep 30, 2025 • Brandon Berkson // HAP and Britney Eschelman

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