How reviews work

One stay, as a record: how it was booked and paid for, whether your loyalty number was on the booking and in effect, the room you booked and the room you got, how the upgrade happened, and whether it was worth it, 1 to 5. A minute or two. Nothing is saved until you submit, except a stay you forwarded, which waits until you finish or discard it, 37 days at most.

Forward your confirmation email to this address, from your mail app, from any address:

Your first forwarded stay creates and verifies your account: the reply carries a link that signs you in, and the stay is waiting with most fields filled in. A model fills in the hotel, the dates, the room booked, how you booked and paid, and more; you check them on one screen, then answer five questions at most: your status, the upgrade, breakfast, late checkout and whether it was worth it.

Or, on "Log a stay", under "Other ways to log a stay", paste the confirmation or select up to four screenshots of the stay in your hotel app, or fill in every field by hand, starting from the hotel's name. What you paste or select is read by a model and then discarded.

Once the stay is logged, tap "Add photos", pick them all at once, and say what each shows with one tap. Or skip, and add them later from "Your stays".

Everything a contributor made public is open to anyone: the headline numbers on every hotel and region page, every public stay in full, and every profile. Logging stays opens the site's work across everyone's stays: one public stay opens the breakdowns on every hotel page, and three open the tools.

Every stay you log comes with "Share as a data point": its facts in the shape data-point posters write, with the link last, for the group's Slack, chat or forum. A public stay's link shows a preview drawn for it wherever it is pasted, the cover photo when there is one, the room you booked, the room you got and your verdict, and opens a page that leads with the same facts, then the photo and the tip where you added them, and the record in full.