Who We Are

Our Team

Five people who take hotel rooms personally. We write about the features that matter most to your stay.

Niks Barbos

Niks Barbos

The Founder

Niks has been researching hotels since the early 2000s. Not because she planned to build a website about them. Because her husband is particular. He needs a real gym with a proper dumbbell range. He needs the egg-white omelet at breakfast. The kids needed specific pool setups. So she became the person who figured all of that out before anyone checked in.

She has also taken a bath every single night for as long as she can remember. Water is her thing. Always has been. So when she started traveling and realized that finding a hotel room with a good tub was surprisingly hard, it stuck with her. The information was out there, but nobody had organized it around the tub. That became Feature Stays.

Claire Ellsworth

Claire Ellsworth

Favorite Themes

Anniversaries, honeymoons, and the rooms worth booking when the night really matters.

Claire is the one who will call a hotel to ask which rooms face west before she books. She wants to know if the tub is in the bathroom or by the window, because those are two completely different evenings. She writes about the rooms that make a regular Tuesday anniversary feel like you planned it for months.
Jake Marin

Jake Marin

Favorite Themes

Cabins, road trips, and the argument for actually going somewhere this weekend.

Jake is the person who books a cabin on a Wednesday night and leaves Friday after work. He cares more about what is around the hotel than what is inside it. But he always checks for the hot tub on the deck first, because after a day of hiking or just doing nothing in a small town, that is the part that makes the whole trip click.
Dana Reyes

Dana Reyes

Favorite Themes

Rates, pricing, and the upgrade that costs less than most people think.

Dana is the person who noticed that the jacuzzi suite is usually only $30 to $40 more than the standard room, and that most people never find out because the filter is buried three clicks deep. She compares what you actually get at $109 versus $280 and writes about the rooms where the cheaper one is honestly better.
Marcus Hale

Marcus Hale

Favorite Themes

Tub engineering, fixture quality, and honest evaluations of expensive rooms.

Marcus is the one who checks what brand of jets the tub has before he looks at the room photos. He has stayed in $400 suites where the tub was an afterthought and $180 rooms where someone clearly thought about the water pressure. He writes about that difference, because at the higher end, knowing what you are paying for matters.

Experiences

Guides & Stories