Meet Crystal

Crystal Price

I Didn’t Just Want to See the World. I Wanted to Experience It.

Pretty Hidden Gems was created by Crystal Price, a traveler, storyteller, content creator, and certified travel agent who believes the best souvenirs aren’t things—they’re stories.

Growing up with an introverted mother, Crystal promised herself that one day she would see the world with her children.

She wanted her daughter to experience more than what was familiar—to taste new foods, hear new languages, learn different traditions, meet people from different cultures, and collect the kind of memories that become family stories forever.

And that promise became Pretty Hidden Gems.

Today, Crystal captures travel the way she experiences it: handheld, natural, unfiltered, and real. No overproduced travel fantasies. No pretending. Just beautiful places, real people, unexpected moments, and the hidden gems that make a trip unforgettable.

Travel Content That Feels Like a Friend’s Recommendation

Brands work with Pretty Hidden Gems when they want travel content that feels authentic, personal, and impossible to scroll past.

Because the best recommendation doesn’t feel like an ad. It feels like your well-traveled friend just told you where to go.

Field Notes

Postcards from Barbados

Platinum-coast sunsets, Bridgetown coral stone and the Westbury Road house that raised an icon — shot on a slow week on the island.

Late afternoon sun over turquoise water and white sand on a Barbados beach
Platinum Coast
The brightly painted green and orange childhood home of Rihanna on Westbury Road, Barbados
Westbury Road
A wooden pavilion on stilts over calm water at sunset in Bridgetown, Barbados
Bridgetown at dusk
An orange sunset burning along the horizon over the sea in Barbados
Last light
The national hero monument to Robyn Rihanna Fenty in Bridgetown, Barbados
National hero
Sailboats silhouetted against a golden Caribbean sunset
Carlisle Bay
A local driver smiling beside his van outside the airport terminal in Barbados
Our driver, day one
Pink dusk light over the Barbados shoreline with palms and a yellow lifeguard hut
Pink hour