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How we verify

Anyone can list a hotel. The work worth doing is checking that it is real, that it is still open, and that the photographs are not lying to you — and then saying plainly what the catch is.

What a stay must carry before it is published

A stay is not published on Farfables until its record is complete. That is not a checklist we promise to follow — a stay missing any of it simply cannot go live. Every stay we publish carries:

A date it was last verified, shown on its page. If you don't see one, that stay hasn't been through the full check yet — see below.
An honest "what's the catch" note written for that property, not for its category.
A note on what it costs, so the price bracket isn't a surprise.
At least two independent sources behind the facts we state.
At least one real photograph and a working website of its own.

What gets in at all

We only catalog places that are genuinely extraordinary — independent and story-worthy, where the building or the setting is the reason to go. Generic chains and ordinary rentals are out. The rare exception is a chain property where the structure itself is the wonder, and a person makes that call every time. A stay's experience category is decided by what the place actually is, not by how it describes itself.

How it stays true after publication

Photographs are checked regularly. A link that has rotted is not a photo — a stay whose images have gone dead is hidden rather than left showing a broken card.
Every stay is re-checked on a rolling cycle, and the date on its page moves when it is.
Only a person can publish a stay. Our checks can take a stay down — when its own site says it has closed, or when its photos or website stop working — but nothing goes live, or comes back, without a person re-verifying it. One bad day never empties the catalog.

Verification is never for sale

Whether a stay is verified, how it ranks, and whether it is featured are decided by these standards alone. No property can pay to be verified, and none ever will be able to. Some outbound links earn us a commission — that is explained on the affiliate disclosure page — and it changes none of the above.

Where the data comes from

The base inventory is drawn from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the details we add come only from each property's own website.

The honest caveat. Stays that were already listed before the complete-record rule took hold were not pulled, and many of them have not been through the full check yet — which is exactly why the last-verified date is printed on each stay's page rather than claimed for the catalog as a whole. A stay showing no date has not been through it. We are working through the backlog, and we would rather show you the gap than paper over it.

Spotted something wrong, or know a place we're missing? Tell us, or email [email protected] — a person reads every tip before anything changes.