Zak
Winnick

I spent fifteen years working inside some of the best hotels in the country, including the Wynn Las Vegas, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, and the Grand Hyatt Nashville. I've worked front of house checking in guests and behind the scenes keeping operations running. I've seen what it takes to deliver a genuinely great stay, and I've seen what happens when properties decide their reputation will do the work for them.

Working in luxury hospitality changes how you evaluate a hotel. You stop looking at the marketing and start paying attention to the things that actually matter: how the staff responds when something goes wrong, whether the property invests in the details guests don't consciously notice, and if the experience matches what you were promised when you booked. After years of watching this from the inside, I developed a standard for what I think a great stay should look like. I won't book a client into a property I wouldn't stay at myself.

That philosophy is why I became a travel advisor. Not to forward confirmation emails and technically be helpful, but to help clients find hotels that actually deserve their money. I focus on boutique hotels, luxury resorts, and thoughtfully built itineraries where having someone in your corner makes a real difference. I work with properties where I can get you something you wouldn't get booking on your own: room upgrades, resort credits, early check-in, the table at the restaurant you couldn't get into.

My standards are high because I've seen what's possible when a hotel gets it right. I like helping my clients experience that too.