The passion, and the part brands hire
Sixty-plus countries and territories. Two home cities. One person to host. Worldwide, Stay-led coverage from London and Hong Kong, made for the parents planning their next family stay.
territories visited
London & Hong Kong
property to work with me
host and pay
Three ways in, and only one depends on audience size
Reach matters for the first of these. It's irrelevant to the third, which is priced as professional work rather than as an influencer placement.
Hosted review visit
Full editorial coverage of arrival, rooms and dining across my channels, on standard press-trip terms — with the deliverables list agreed before check-in rather than left to goodwill afterwards.
Content & UGC licensing
Shot for your channels rather than mine: organic use, paid usage for your ad accounts, or whitelisted through my handle — rights scoped by platform and window, in writing. Two-person coverage where the brief needs people in frame.
Guest experience audit
A confidential mystery-guest stay, paid and published nowhere: booking friction, arrival, the room as found, service recovery, the bill. The discipline luxury groups buy from assessment programmes, sized for an independent property.
Content that ends in a booking, not a like
Most travel content gets judged on applause. A property should judge it on the journey it feeds: a guest discovers you in a Reel or on an OTA, searches your name, and lands on your website — the billboard effect, and the moment 15–25% commission is either paid to a platform or kept by the house.
My coverage is built for that journey: stay-led, search-friendly, and pointed at the booking rather than the feed. And because the other half of PIKOTW builds websites and search for a living, I'm the rare creator who can also fix the page the guest lands on.
That's the practical meaning of six disciplines under one name — the content that gets you found and the page that converts the click, from the same person, on the same brief.
Simple to host, flexible when the brief needs it
I travel solo as standard — one room, one seat, no special approval needed. That keeps the bar low for a first partnership and fits how most press trips are already structured.
Where a brief calls for lifestyle or couples content, I travel with my fiancée @fhyint, a creator in her own right. Same room, same booking — a second shooter and a second face in frame at no extra accommodation cost.
Departures from all London airports, with Hong Kong as a second base for anything in Asia-Pacific. Media kit with current platform figures available on request.
Recent coverage
Stay-led work from the last twelve months. Full portfolio and media kit on request.
The page a marketing team can forward
Everything a partnerships decision needs in one place: the three routes above, the logistics, the trade accreditation, and the figures below. The full media kit — reach, growth and audience breakdown — goes out the same day it's requested.
Licensed to sell travel
Not just a creator: an independent travel advisor with InteleTravel UK — ABTA P7384 · IATA 10-548020 · CLIA 00-323643 — registrations a marketing team can look up. Content that ends in a booking can literally end in a booking, made through me.
Verified & parent-focused
Written by a father of twin daughters. @pikotw is a verified account speaking to parents planning family stays — the audience that books rooms, suites and half-board, not dorm beds.
Worldwide, stay-led
60+ countries visited — 95+ for my partner @fhyint — with coverage anchored on the property and the stay, not itinerary padding. Fastest availability from the London and Hong Kong hubs; everywhere else by arrangement.
Reach you can check
500,000+ video views across Instagram and TikTok, 8,000+ followers, and a public track record led by a 26K+-view overwater-villa reel from Hawar, Bahrain — with collaborations including Hilton Cabo Verde and Aurora Resort, Lapland. Figures a marketing team can verify, rather than an engagement rate nobody can.
What properties usually ask
The answers your marketing team will want before raising it internally.
What does a hosted stay include?
Coverage of arrival, rooms, dining and the property's headline experiences across my channels — with the deliverables agreed before check-in rather than left to goodwill afterwards.
What are your audience numbers?
In the media kit, sent on request, and built on verifiable reach rather than vanity metrics. If numbers are your deciding factor, note that the licensing and audit options don't depend on them at all.
Is a hosted stay paid?
Editorial coverage runs on standard press-trip terms. Content licensed for your own channels and paid media is a separate, quoted product — mixing the two up is how both end up undervalued.
What is the guest audit, exactly?
I book, stay and check out as an ordinary guest, paid by you, published nowhere. You receive a written report of the entire journey — booking friction, arrival, the room as found, service recovery, the bill — from someone who reviews properties for a living. It's the one product here your guests never see.
How much notice do you need?
For the UK and drive-to Europe, weeks. For long-haul, a season. School-holiday dates go earliest — if you're aiming at a half-term window, start the conversation now rather than the month before.
Got a property you'd like covered properly?
Tell me the dates and what you need out of it. Media kit sent on request.
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