Our methodology

The distinction the whole site is built on

A hotel's headline number — "rooms sleep up to 6" — is a property maximum: the biggest cap found anywhere in the building, often one suite category. Every room type has its own cap, its own bed setup, and sometimes its own adult/child sub-caps. We work at room level only. A property-level number is never used to judge a room.

How hotels and rooms are chosen

We cover family-oriented hotels, resorts, and all-inclusives in destinations families actually search for, and we add a property only when we can read its room data from the hotel's own pages. If part of a resort is sold as its own separate product — its own listing, its own booking page — it gets its own entry here; sections sold under one shared listing stay in one entry. That is why Moon Palace The Grand has a separate entry from Moon Palace Cancun: the market sells them separately, so we track them separately.

Where facts come from

Facts have exactly one kind of source of record: the hotel itself. When sources disagree, we use this order:

1. The hotel's official room detail pages
2. The chain's official policy pages
3. Official fact sheets published by the hotel or chain

Booking sites (OTAs) are cross-checks only — never the source of a published number. When an OTA disagrees with the hotel's own page, the official figure wins, and we publish the discrepancy itself on the hotel's page, because it usually means the booking site's room grid is stale.

Every fact carries its own source

Sources attach per field, not per hotel. A room's max occupancy, its bed setup, its connecting-room status, and its age rules can each come from a different official page, and each is recorded with the source URL we read and the date we verified it. Nothing on this site is called "verified" without both. Room cards show the main source and its verification date so you can re-check our work.

How the fit verdict is computed

Verdicts are computed by an engine, never written by hand, and never derived from a single number. For your family (adults plus each child's age) and a room, the engine checks, in order:

• Published occupancy. If the hotel doesn't publish a max occupancy for the room on its official site, the verdict can be at best "Confirm with hotel" — never "Fits."
• The ceiling and its sub-caps. Your party must fit the room's max occupancy and any adult/child sub-caps ("5 people, 4 adults max"). Where a hotel publishes exact allowed combinations ("2 adults & 3 children"), your party must match one of them.
• Named beds. We count only sleeping spots the hotel actually names. A sofa bed with no stated size counts as one spot. If the named beds sleep fewer people than your party, the verdict is at best "Confirm with hotel," even when the occupancy cap allows you — a permission is not a bed.

The result is one of three states: Fits your family, Doesn't fit, or Confirm with hotel. Ambiguous official wording always resolves to "Confirm with hotel," never to a quiet yes.

Two age rules are kept strictly separate. A kids-stay-free age is pricing — it is never an input to the fit engine. An occupancy age threshold (the age at which a child starts counting as an adult toward the caps) is a capacity rule and is tracked as its own field, with its own source.

When we don't know, we say so

If a figure isn't published on an official page, the field is labeled Unverified and shown as "Not published" — we never fill the gap with a booking site's number, an average, or a guess. An honest "we couldn't confirm this" is more useful to a family than a confident wrong number.

Connecting rooms: never "guaranteed"

We record whether connecting room types exist and the assignment terms the hotel publishes (typically "on request"). We never describe connecting rooms as guaranteed, because hotels don't guarantee them. When we suggest booking two rooms, the pairing must be verified in official data; otherwise the recommendation carries an explicit "assignment confirmation required" note.

Prices

We never display nightly room rates and never claim a "lowest price" — rates are live and volatile, and our workflow verifies dated facts, not tonight's price. The "Check live price" buttons lead to our booking partners. The only money figures we ever show are policy fees a hotel publishes (for example, an extra-bed fee), and those appear only with the date we verified them, exactly like occupancy data.

Re-verification and changes

Hotel pages change, so data has a shelf life here. We re-check the official room pages for tracked hotels on a weekly cycle. Automated checks detect changes and produce a diff — but detection is all they do. A change is applied only after the site owner reviews and approves it; nothing is auto-published. A fact whose verification date grows older than 12 months is flagged Re-check needed until it is read again on the official site.

Corrections

Hotels rename rooms, change caps, and quietly edit pages. If you spot something on this site that doesn't match a hotel's official page, tell us via the contact page — corrections are part of the method, and we re-check every report against the official source before changing a number.