Journal
Not a travel blog and not search-engine filler. Each piece answers a question a real booking hangs on, names its sources, and says at the end what I would do in your position. Three so far. There will be more, but only when I have something to say.
Method · 9 minutes · As of August 2026
Five stars means 610 points out of 988 in a catalogue of 239 criteria, in which room size is only an optional item. What stars and review scores actually measure, what photographs leave out, and the test that takes ten minutes.
Read the pieceMethod · 8 minutes · As of August 2026
“Junior suite” is not a protected term and is explicitly not a suite under the classification system. What you are really paying for when you upgrade, when the second-best category is the smarter choice, and the five questions to ask first.
Read the pieceWorked example · 6 minutes · As of August 2026
Two islands less than 150 kilometres apart, sold in the same breath, and for a honeymoon two completely different trips. I have been to neither. So the piece does not show you what it is like there. It shows how I build a decision like this: which questions I ask, which claims I check, and where I stop asserting.
Read the pieceWhat I am working on
Next: an overview of what a trip to various regions actually costs, once I have seen enough real quotes to give figures that hold. Not before.
Next step
No obligation and no charge. An answer within 48 hours, even if the answer is that the budget will not stretch to this trip.
