How Haven travel guides are made

What a guide is built from

Every guide starts with a fact sheet Haven assembles before a word is written: the stays in the town that are on Haven, what each one sleeps, its nightly rate band for the next twelve months before fees, the amenities and the setting its host lists, Haven's own read of its character, the areas of the town those stays sit in, and which hosts run several of them. Nothing a guide says about a stay comes from anywhere else.

For the town itself, Haven Editorial reads published sources such as the local tourism board, park and transit pages, and cites the pages it opened. A guide links only to sources it read.

How it is written and checked

An AI drafts the guide from the fact sheet and the sources, and writes a one-line reason for each stay it features that must hold up against the stay's own facts. Haven then checks the draft: every number traces to the fact sheet, every featured stay is on Haven and public, no host appears twice while others are left out, and nothing repeats the town page's own introduction. A person at Haven reads the guide and publishes it, or sends it back. Nothing is published without that review, and the byline names it.

What is never in a guide

• A ranking by rating. A guide sorts stays 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.
• A photo that is not the host's own. The hero and every card use a listing's photos, credited to the host.
• Paid placement. Hosts do not pay to appear in a guide, and a stay cannot buy its way in.

Keeping a guide true

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

The line under every byline

Each guide carries one sentence under its title that names where the facts came from, that an AI drafted it, and who at Haven reviewed it. That line is the same on every guide, so a reader never has to wonder.

Found an error?

Write to hello@bookwithhaven.com with the guide's address and what is wrong. A host who sees their stay described inaccurately can also change the listing itself; the guide follows the listing at the next daily check.