Editorial
Editorial Standards
The rules this guide writes by. Four sections, in the order the questions are usually asked.
01
The categories every entry is read through
Every property in the guide is examined through the same five categories: arrival, rooms, dining, public space and surroundings. They are the questions a reader actually asks when weighing a stay, and they are the only questions the entries answer.
Arrival covers the door, the approach and the first ten minutes. Rooms covers the room itself — the bed, the light, the view, the sound — and nothing more. Dining covers what is on the floor that serves food, and where it sits relative to the guest areas.
Public space is the lobby, the corridors and the shared areas where the property shows its daily rhythm. Surroundings is everything outside the building: the street, the water, the hills, the highway, the district.
Keeping the categories fixed means the entries can be compared directly. A city hotel and a mountain resort are read through the same five lenses, so the difference between them is the difference, not a difference of structure.
02
Why the entries carry no prices, no availability and no star-ranking of our own
The guide states what a property is, and it stops there. Numbers that change hourly do not belong in an editorial reference, and a figure printed here would be wrong the moment it was published. A site that carries stale figures is worse than one that carries none.
The one rating the entries do carry is the star class supplied with the property‘s own data, because it is a category the property carries rather than one the guide assigns. Beyond that, the guide does not rank, score or pit the eleven properties against each other. The order on a catalogue page is editorial, not a verdict.
The absence of availability is deliberate as well. A page that shows empty rooms is already a booking page in all but name, and the moment it does that it stops being independent. The guide sends the reader to the official listing, where the current state of the property is held and maintained.
The same logic applies to promotions and offers. A deal is a figure with a deadline attached, and it is the fastest way for an informational page to become a sales page.
03
Where the photography comes from and what it does and does not show
Each entry carries a single photograph, and it is drawn from the property‘s own published imagery. The guide does not commission its own shoots and does not photograph properties on site; the images exist to place the reader, not to document.
A photograph shows the property at a moment: the entrance from one angle, the water in one hour, the room in one season. It is not a survey. Nothing in the guide promises that a specific room, view or facility will match the frame, and the entries are written so that no one reads that promise into them.
Because the images are the property‘s own, they also carry the property‘s own choices of angle and lighting, and the guide publishes them as supplied. If an image no longer represents the property — a closed wing, a changed front — it is replaced or the entry is corrected.
The one firm rule is that no image slot is left empty. Where a layout would want a photograph that does not exist, the layout is changed. A blank frame reads as a failed photograph, and the guide does not ship them.
04
How to use the listing links, and why the official listing page is always the authority
Every card in the guide ends in one outbound link, and that link is the property‘s official listing page. It is the only kind of link that leaves this site, and it is labelled plainly — “See the Property” — so a reader always knows where it goes.
The official listing is the authority because it is the page the property, or the platform that represents it, maintains. It carries the current facilities, the current rules, the current state of everything the guide describes. When the two disagree, the listing is by definition correct.
The guide asks the reader to treat the link as the handover: the description here, the details there. Nothing is copied in the other direction — the guide does not re-post the listing‘s content, because that is how an independent reference becomes a secondhand brochure.
Following the link leaves this site. That company sets its own cookies, its own terms and its own policies. The cookie settings made on this page do not carry across, and nothing on this site speaks for the listing beyond the link itself.