Sources and method

What gets checked before a page goes up

The facts about the suites come from us and from nowhere else. How many there are, when self check-in opens, what happens with parking, what housekeeping covers, all of it sits in an internal register with the date each answer was given. Before a change goes live, an automated check reads every sentence in both languages and halts the release when one contradicts the register. Distances are held the same way. A walking time is derived from coordinates at a pace we set deliberately slow, eighty metres a minute along streets that do not run straight. A second check throws out any figure claiming a shorter walk than the map allows.

How the review score is put together

One score runs across the whole site. It is the blended average of the platforms guests rate us on, gathered by the live review feed on the home page, and no page types it in again by hand. It lives in one place and every page reads it from there, so two pages cannot disagree. The number of reviews in our copy is always rounded down. Each platform's own score is read by a person, one at a time, with the date of that reading stored beside it, and after four months a check asks for a fresh one. Quotes from guests are printed word for word with the name attached, and we never write our own version of what somebody said.

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The addresses and monuments in the city guides

For monuments and museums, opening times and ticket prices are printed with their source and the day we read it. The Archaeological Museum's come from amth.gr. A check asks for a fresh reading after six months. Where sources disagree we say so instead of picking whichever number sounds most certain, and where something is a story the city tells and not a documented fact, we mark it as one. The same guides recommend more than seventy places around Thessaloniki, and behind every one of them sits a label for how recently we looked. You never see it on the page. It decides what reaches the page, because a venue we could not confirm was trading has nowhere to sit in the data, and no third label exists for doubt. Sending a guest to a restaurant that has closed is the worst thing a guide like this can do. If you find a mistake here, write to us and we will put it right. The two labels behind an address mean this:

• Verified 2026. We saw during 2026 that it is trading, from the venue's own channels or from a source carrying a date.
• Likely open. It was trading the last time we looked, but the newest evidence we hold is older than that. Call ahead.

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The photographs

The suites are our own photographs. For the places outside the city we use openly licensed work, unmodified. Two of those licences ask for the photographer to be named. They are named here.

• Pella. Joyofmuseums, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• The Karanos waterfall at Edessa. Annatsach, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Meteora. Luna Zhang, Unsplash licence.
• The Enipeas gorge. Stefanos Keramaris, Unsplash licence.
• The Sithonia coast. Dimitris Kiriakakis, Unsplash licence.