Our editorial process

Why this page exists

There is a lot about travel on the internet, and much of it is copied from somewhere else. Prices come from 2019, opening hours come from a page that copied them in turn, and nobody says when anyone last looked.

We try to do it differently. This page describes how an article comes about here, so that you can judge our details rather than having to believe them.

1. Choosing the topic

We write about places where there is a real question to answer: "Is the museum worth it?", "Where do I stay in Lisbon if I have no car?", "How do I get from the airport into the city without paying 60 euros?"

Before anyone writes, the team decides which places belong in a list and what the ranking criterion is: location, price, waiting time, suitability for families. The criterion is stated in the article. A list with no stated criterion is an opinion dressed up as a ranking.

2. Sources

The first source is always the official one: the website of the museum, the city, the transport operator, the national park authority. For entry rules and visas, the German Federal Foreign Office and the official portals of the destination country; for health topics, the relevant specialist bodies.

We use travel blogs and forums to find questions, not to copy numbers. We cite review sites at most once per article, and always with a figure and a date, for example "across roughly 1,200 reviews on Tripadvisor as of September 2026, the morning wait is the recurring complaint".

3. Fact check with a check date

Opening hours, admission prices, addresses and directions are checked against the official source before publication. The date of that check appears in the article, in the form "opening hours and prices checked on 2 September 2026 on the official website".

If we could not verify something, we do not put a number there. Instead it reads "admission is in the low double digits; current prices are on the official site", rather than an invented figure with false precision.

We measure distances and walking times on the map and say so.

4. First-hand experience and its limits

We are a small team and we have not been to every place we write about. So there is one hard rule: "we were there" appears only if someone from the team was there.

Everything else we mark as research: "according to the Uffizi ...", "according to the Vienna tourist board, as of September 2026 ...". Phrases like "our favorite cafe" or "when we were there last summer" do not appear in an article based on research. Invented experiences are, in our view, the worst form of travel journalism.

5. How we handle AI tools

We use language models as a tool: for first drafts, for restructuring, for translation between the twelve language versions. We do not hide that.

What a model is not allowed to do: supply facts. Every number, every opening time, every address and every price in a published article comes from a verified source, not from a model. No text goes online without editorial review, and a human being is responsible for every article.

We do not publish automatically generated bulk pages, invented quotes or invented author profiles.

6. Images

Images come from licensed stock, from freely licensed sources or from the editorial team. The source appears next to or below the image.

We do not show images of a place other than the one described, we do not use obviously heavily edited shots as proof of "this is what it looks like", and we do not show people without a legal basis for doing so.

7. Languages and translations

German is our main language. The other eleven versions come from the same editorial original and are reviewed before they appear. Numbers, dates and proper names are not reinvented along the way: a museum is called in every language version what it is called on site.

If a translation goes stale while the German version has already been updated, we fix it afterwards; if you spot a case like that, tell us.

8. Updates

• Articles covering prices, opening hours, visa and entry rules get reviewed several times a year.
• All other articles at least once a year.
• The "Updated on" date changes only when we have genuinely changed something. A bulk update of every page at the push of a button, just so they look fresh, does not happen here.

9. Corrections

Mistakes happen. If you find one, write to moc.liamg@ed.moc.msiruot and ideally include the address of the page, the passage concerned and, if you have it, the correct source.

We check every report. If something is wrong, we correct it. If the correction affects a material statement, we note it in the article, so that it stays clear what was changed. There are no silent corrections of material errors.

10. Independence

Selection and order are independent of affiliate programs. How we fund ourselves and what rules follow from that is set out on the page How we make money.

11. Where our limits are

We are not a travel agency, not a legal or insurance advisor, and we do not replace medical advice. On visas, entry and health we link to the responsible official body, we do not replace it. What is binding is always the information from that body and from the provider concerned, not our article.

Who we are is explained under About us; who is legally responsible, in the legal notice.

Last updated: 03.09.2026

The legally binding version of this page is the German one.