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Erika Marlowe
Head of Editorial, The Travel Club
Erika Marlowe leads editorial strategy at The Travel Club. For a decade before joining, she covered the luxury hospitality industry as a contributing editor for Condé Nast Traveler and Travel + Leisure, writing over 200 hotel reviews and destination features across five continents.
Her beat has included the rise of design-led hospitality in Lisbon and Mexico City, the ultra-luxury consolidation wave of 2020–2024, and investigative reporting on hotel-pricing opacity — the last of which shapes much of The Travel Club's editorial voice.
Erika holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley and is based in Newport Beach, California, where she writes from an office overlooking the harbor. She has stayed in 340+ hotels and counting.
Articles by Erika
- Free Travel Club
Built by travelers who were tired of overpaying. Free to join forever. No membership fees. No catch.
- Travel Club vs Booking.com: A Real 5-Hotel Price Comparison
We took five identical 3-night stays and priced them on The Travel Club and Booking.com on the same day. Here are the numbers, with screenshots.
- Free Travel Clubs — Legitimate Business Model or Scam?
The travel club industry has a trust problem, and it's earned. Here's how to tell a legitimate free membership from a bait-and-switch — and why the economics of free actually work.