Methodology

The useful thing about this site is that you can check it. Here is exactly what we read, what we work out, and what we refuse to claim.

What we look at

For each property we read the property’s own published material — usually its website’s room or apartment pages — and record:

• published maximum occupancy, in the property’s own wording
• bed types and counts, where the property publishes them
• number of bedrooms and separate sleeping areas
• bathrooms, where stated
• room or apartment size in square metres, where stated
• kitchen or kitchenette
• laundry, cots, lifts and parking, where stated

Every record carries the source URL and the date we verified it. Both appear on the property card.

What we derive

These are our own calculations from the published facts above. They are judgements, not facts, and we label them that way.

• Fixed-bed count — how many travellers get a permanent bed, counting a double or king as two and excluding sofa beds, rollaways and cots.
• Sleeping areas — bedrooms, plus a separate living area where one is published.
• Parent privacy — separate bedroom, partial separation, one sleeping area, or unknown.
• Teen suitability — a simple, transparent score built from fixed-bed coverage, privacy, bathroom count and space per person. It is arithmetic on published facts, not a model, and we show the reasoning next to the number.

What “unknown” means

A large amount of room information simply is not published. Of the 41 room types in our dataset, 38 publish a maximum occupancy and only 17 publish a full bed breakdown.

Where something is not published we record it as unknown and show it as unknown. We do not infer a bed layout from an occupancy number — a room that sleeps five could be a king plus three twins, or a queen plus a sofa bed and a cot, and those are very different rooms for a family with teenagers.

What we do not claim

These are the limits of this site today, stated plainly:

• No live availability. We do not know whether a room is free on your dates.
• No live pricing. We publish no nightly rates or totals, because we have no licensed source for them.
• No confirmed child-age eligibility. Occupancy rules often depend on children’s exact ages. Confirming that needs a live connection to a booking system, which we do not have.
• No guaranteed connecting rooms. No major supplier publishes connecting-room status as a guarantee, so nobody can honestly promise it — including us. Where a property sells communicating rooms as a single family unit, we say that is what the property publishes.

If those change because we gain licensed access to supplier data, this page will change with them, and the site will say so.

How we’d put it

If a property says a room sleeps up to five with a king, a sofa bed and a rollaway, we will tell you the published setup accommodates five and that two of those travellers are not on fixed beds. We will not tell you it is guaranteed for your two adults and your children aged 4, 11 and 16.

Corrections

Room configurations change. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will re-check it and update the verification date.