🏨 Hotels

The destination is already chosen. What remains is deciding exactly where to stay. Almost everything depends on it: how long it takes to reach the beach or the center, whether you need a car, what a night will cost. A mistake here is expensive. A good room cannot fix a poorly chosen neighborhood. In the "Hotels" section we collect articles that help you make this decision before you buy tickets.

The first type of article is the neighborhood breakdown. We explain how the parts of a city or island differ and who each one suits. This is how the pieces on Zagreb, Glasgow, Brussels, Paphos, Paros and Menorca are built. For Provence we compare villages instead of neighborhoods, for Lanzarote the resorts. In New York we look at the neighborhoods where staying is cheaper. In each of these breakdowns hotels are tied to a neighborhood, and where it matters, we say whether you need a car.

The second type is hotel roundups for a specific search. Category and meal plan: four-star "all-inclusive" in Kemer, Cuba and Spain, five stars by the sea in Fethiye and Egypt. Location: central Madrid, central Vienna, Rome near the Colosseum, the beachfront in Goa, a private beach in Montenegro. Hotels for trips with children are gathered separately: Pattaya, Nha Trang and Phu Quoc, Belek with water parks.

The third type deals with the season and general criteria. There are roundups of hotels in Turkey and Egypt with a heated pool for a winter trip, and an overview of Turkish resorts where people still swim in October. There are hotels in Rovaniemi with an igloo and a sauna in the room. Separate articles explain accommodation types and fees in Malaysia, the difference between a guesthouse and a five-star hotel in Goa, and the criteria for choosing luxury hotels. A few pieces cover neighboring questions: car rental in Georgia and Sicily, the beaches of Spain.

Every article opens with a short conclusion: what suits whom. Practical blocks follow: location, distance to the beach or the metro, meal plan, price range. For every figure we give the source and the date it was checked. We verify the data against the hotels' official websites and against the map. We write about downsides plainly: a noisy street, a distant beach, the need for a car. Where data is missing or sources disagree, we say so.

The section is meant for people who plan on their own and want to compare options by clear criteria. It suits families with children, couples, those heading to the sea in winter or choosing a city hotel close to transit. If you need a description of the sights or a ready day-by-day itinerary, this section will be of little help. There are no personal impressions of stays here either: we work with open data.

Start with the article on the neighborhoods of your destination, if there is one. It will show you which part of the city or coast to search in. Then move on to the hotel roundup and compare by what matters to you: beach, meals, pool, transit. If the neighborhood is already clear, you can open the roundup right away. The articles on the season are useful earlier than the rest, when your travel dates are not yet set.

"Hotels" belongs to "Living abroad", which is part of the larger section "Where to stay". The topic has no subsections, and all articles sit in a single feed. For a general view of choosing accommodation, go one level up, to "Where to stay". The articles on car rental and beaches are worth reading together with the neighborhood breakdown: they show how to get around from the hotel.

Prices, fees and hotel terms change from season to season. That is why we update the articles and check the data against official sources again, and we put the check date in the text. Before you pay, still check the terms on the hotel's own website: room category, meals, cancellation rules. For entry rules and insurance, check with the country's official authorities. The list of destinations grows gradually. If the place you need is not here yet, look at the article on a similar resort: the principles for choosing a neighborhood are usually the same.