How we check that a place is adults only

Booking sites carry an “adults only” flag that the hotel sets itself. We do not trust it. We read the house rules.

1. We find the property's own wordsIts website, and the house rules on its booking profile — the text a guest agrees to at check-in.
2. We look for the age, not the labelA sentence naming a minimum age of eighteen or higher for every guest. “Adults only” alone is not enough, and neither is a rule that governs one room type, the bar or the spa.
3. We record where we read itEvery page says what the age is, where it came from and the month we last checked.
4. Anything under eighteen is outSixteen-plus, twelve-plus, “children over ten welcome” — none of those belong here. A house that changes its rules comes down.
5. We write the page ourselvesFrom the property's own materials, in our words. Photos, rooms and prices arrive live from our booking partner.

What we cannot promise

Houses change their minds. If a property drops its age rule between our check and your stay, we will not know until we look again — which is why the month of the last check sits on every page, and a note from you gets it re-read the same day.

Prices and availability come from a third party in real time. We show them as they arrive, and the conditions of the rate you pick are what count at the moment of booking.

Where the guest scores come from

The number beside a house — 9.1, 8.6 — and the short summary of what guests mention are not ours. They come from our booking partner, who collects them from people who booked and stayed through their system. We do not gather reviews, we do not moderate them, and we do not check whether any individual review is genuine. We pass on what we are given and say so. Houses with no score simply have none yet.

How this list is ordered

Default order is what we would suggest ourselves: houses that can actually be booked for your dates come first, and within those, the ones with the stronger guest scores. Choosing a sort — price, rating — replaces that entirely.

No property pays for placement. There is no advertising on this site and no paid position in any list. We earn the same way on every booking: a margin on the room rate, the same percentage whichever house you pick. A house being in the collection at all is a judgement about the place, not a commercial arrangement with it.

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