Elena Vasquez

Elena Vasquez is a travel writer with an incurable weakness for the coast. Over eleven years she has covered beach hotels and island escapes from the Mediterranean to the South Pacific, championing the small, characterful properties that hold their own against the mega-resorts. Elena writes about sea views that earn the price, the difference between a good beach club and a great one, and how to find quiet in places everyone else has discovered. She's honest about crowds and seasons, and she has a sixth sense for the family-run villa one cove along from the chaos. Her features are equal parts inspiration and logistics — which room, which month, which ferry or flight. When she isn't chasing shorelines she free-dives, cooks fish badly and keeps a running list of the best sundowner spots in the tropics.