Haven travel guides: where to stay in a town, from the hosts’ own facts

Haven travel guides answer the question you ask before you pick a stay: where in this town should we be? Each guide is written by Haven Editorial for one town where independent hosts book direct on Haven, and it sends you to the host's own site to book, with no guest service fee.

Where to find them

• The hub at bookwithhaven.com/stays/guides lists every published guide, grouped by region, newest first.
• A town's own page under bookwithhaven.com/stays/destinations shows a Guides to {town} section when it has one, and Haven's page about each stay in that town links Where to stay in {town}.
• A town's guide lives at /stays/in/<country>/<region>/<town>/guide, so the guide and the town's full list of stays sit side by side.
• There is an RSS feed at /stays/guides/feed.xml.

What is in a guide

A where-to-stay guide names the areas of the town and what each is like to stay in, says what a night costs by tier (from each host's own calendar for the next twelve months, before fees), and picks which stay fits which trip: a group, a couple, a stay with a dog, a week of working from the hot tub. Each featured stay appears as a card with its photo, what it sleeps, its nightly range, Haven's read of its character, one line on why it is in the guide, a link to Haven's page about it and a Book on {host} link to the host's site. A guide features at most eight stays and links the town page for every stay there.

How a guide is made

1. The facts first. Before anything is written, Haven assembles a fact sheet from the listings in the town: capacity, nightly rate bands, amenities, setting, Haven's read of each stay, the areas the stays sit in, and which hosts run several of them. Every number in a guide traces to that sheet.
2. Published sources for the town. Haven Editorial reads pages such as the local tourism board and park or transit pages and cites the ones it opened. A guide links only to sources it read.
3. An AI draft, then a human review. An AI drafts the guide and a one-line reason for each stay, and Haven checks it: every stay is on Haven and public, every number matches the fact sheet, no host crowds out the others, and nothing repeats the town page's introduction. A person at Haven then publishes the guide or sends it back. Nothing goes live without that review.
4. The line under the byline. Every guide carries one sentence naming where its facts came from, that an AI drafted it, and who at Haven reviewed it.

What is never in a guide

• A ranking by rating. Stays are sorted by what they are for, never by a score.
• A price Haven did not read from the host's own calendar, or a stay that is not booked direct on its host's site.
• Photos that are not the host's own; every image is a listing photo, credited to the host.
• Paid placement. Hosts do not pay to be in a guide.

How a guide stays true

Haven checks each guide's fact sheet against the live catalog every day. A stay that leaves Haven leaves the guide at once. When the facts behind a guide move — a stay joins, a price tier changes — the guide is marked for a refresh, its stay notes and area section are rewritten, and it is reviewed again. A seasonal guide past its season asks search engines not to index it until the next edition. The Updated date at the foot of a guide is when its content last changed.

Report an error

Write to hello@bookwithhaven.com with the guide's address and what is wrong. How Haven travel guides are made says the same in full.

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