We make money in several ways, and we think you should know exactly how each of them works, and where each one stops.
We sometimes accept complimentary or hosted stays from properties. When we do, we say so in the piece.
A hosted stay buys us access, not a verdict. We evaluate a hosted stay the same way we evaluate one we paid for ourselves, and we have and will continue to decline to recommend properties that hosted us. If a hosted stay does not hold up, we either say so plainly or we do not publish it.
When a property pays for content, a campaign, or a promotional placement, that content is clearly labeled as a partnership wherever it appears.
Sponsored content is not presented as an independent recommendation, and independent recommendations are never quietly sold. If you cannot tell which one you are reading, we have failed at this.
We offer paid services to properties: content production, guest-experience assessment, and hospitality training. These are commercial relationships and they are kept separate from editorial coverage.
Hiring us does not buy a feature, a ranking, or a mention in The Edit. A property we have worked with commercially may still receive critical editorial coverage, or none at all.
Some booking links on this site may earn us a commission when a reader books through them, at no additional cost to the reader.
Affiliate relationships do not influence which properties we recommend, how we rank them, or what we say about them. We will recommend a property with no affiliate program over one that pays us if it is the better stay for the trip in question.
Mystery-shopping and guest-experience work is confidential. What we find during a paid private evaluation stays between us and the property unless both parties agree otherwise.
We do not turn private consulting findings into public editorial content, and we do not use the threat of coverage as leverage in a commercial conversation.
Hotels change. Management turns over, renovations happen, and a property that was right last year may not be right now. If something we have published is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
If The Edit says something is worth it, we want readers to know we actually mean it.