How we analyse hotels

We haven't slept in the hotels we list. We say this upfront because the rest of our promise depends on that honesty.

What we do

• We analyse the 150 most recent Booking reviews per hotel. Recent ones, not all of them: reviews from four years ago don't represent the hotel today.
• We identify patterns that appear often enough to be signal, not noise.
• We verify location with Google Maps: real walking times to the key spots of the destination.
• We contrast the hotel's official policies with what guests actually report.
• Every page states exactly how many reviews were analysed and when.

Why this matters

Booking and the meta-search engines get paid by the hotelier. We earn affiliate commission only if you book and complete the stay. That aligns our incentive with your booking being a good fit — not with closing it at all costs. That's why we can tell you who a hotel isn't for.

What we don't do yet

Visit the hotels in person. We'll do it with some of them over 2026-2027. When we do, we'll mark it explicitly. In the meantime, we assume that rigorous analysis of recent reviews is more honest than a generic description written without having been there.

If you find a factual error in any page, write to us. We'll fix it and publish the correction.