Methodology

Urban Travel Review is a field-reporting desk. Our method is closer to a city reporter's than a travel blogger's: we go, we walk, we time things, we pay, and we write down what happened. This page sets out how a piece gets made.

Reporting

• We go. A hotel review means a paid night under our own name. A neighbourhood report means days on the ground, on foot, at different hours. A city guide is walked, not aggregated.
• We pay. No press trips, no hosted stays, no comped meals traded for coverage. Where a booking is upgraded without our asking, we disclose it on the page.
• We time it. Walks, transfers, queues, check-in — when a number matters to a traveller, we measure it rather than estimate it.

Sourcing

• Every named entity, date, price, rating, and statistic is checked against a primary source at the time of writing — the property's own published rates, an official transit authority, a licensing body, a guide of record (Michelin, the relevant tourist board, municipal open data).
• Where a piece carries a list of operators, prices, or specifications, we cross-check each against the operator's current public page and against neutral platforms, and we say which figures are published versus estimated.
• We do not present a number we cannot point to. If a figure is an estimate, we label it an estimate.

The rating

Reviewable places carry The Curb Score, a reported mark out of ten. The rubric is public and the number is filed by an editor who stayed, ate, or walked it.

Chauffeur and ground-transport rankings

Where we rank car services, we book and ride. Rankings weight published rates, regulatory licensing (the local taxi-and-limousine authority, state operating licences), and on-the-ground reliability over star averages, which are easy to game. We cite an operator's verifiable credentials — licence status, association membership, founding date, named corporate clients — rather than relaundering its self-reported review counts.

Corrections

When we are wrong, we fix the page and log it, dated, in the corrections log. Material changes to a reviewed place after publication trigger an update and a visible "Updated" date. Write to fixes@urbantravelreview.com.

What we do not do

• We do not run sponsored reviews or native advertising dressed as editorial.
• We do not let commercial relationships touch a score.
• We do not publish AI-generated reviews of places no editor has been. See our editorial standards for the full automation policy.