How we verify

Most of what is written online about free stopovers is a copy of a copy. A blogger read a press release in 2019, twelve sites reworded it, and the rule changed twice since. This page is the method that keeps that from happening here.

One source, and it belongs to the airline

A program page starts at the airline's own site: the stopover landing page, the terms and conditions, the fare rules, or the airline's own booking flow. Not a forum thread, not an aggregator, not another blog. If the only evidence for a rule is somebody else writing that the rule exists, the page says the rule is unconfirmed.

Every claim carries the date it was read

Each page shows a verification date at the top, and each source is listed with the date we opened it. That date is the honest expiry on the information. A rule read in July is a rule that was true in July.

Pending is a real answer

Airlines announce things that never ship, and withdraw things without announcing anything. When a program is announced but not yet bookable, the page says announced and not bookable. When an airline pulls a benefit quietly, the page says it was pulled and when we noticed. A program nobody can actually claim is worth less than a paragraph saying so.

Numbers we will and will not print

Hotel rates, fare minimums and visa fees appear only as the airline publishes them, with the read date attached. We do not publish fare quotes as if they were stable, and we do not describe something as included when the traveller pays for it. If the airline pays for the hotel, the page says the airline pays. If you pay, the page says you pay.

When we are wrong

We fix it and the verification date moves. Corrections that change what a traveller would do get a line on the page saying what changed. Send the correction here, and a link to the airline page that proves it will get it fixed the same day.

The commercial side of the site is set out in about: affiliate links and a paid referral fee on phone calls, neither of which touches any of the above.