How we check
The Atlas holds 7 verified Places and 2 delisted ones. Each verified Place has been read out of primary sources: the rail, bus and ferry operators, the national park, the regional tourism office, the municipality. Each one carries the date we did it.
We publish the source, not the summary
Every Place lists its sources as plain links with the publisher's name. If a claim on a Place page is not in one of those sources, it should not be on the page. Tell us and it comes off.
We date every check
A Place says Verified with a real date or it says Not verified this season. A Place with no verified ground route carries no buy button, however good it is.
We write the closures, not the highlights
The useful fact about a valley in November is which bus has stopped running. Closures, cash-only warnings and last buses are in Ochre because they are what ruins trips.
We delist
When a place tips into overtourism it comes out of the Atlas, its page stays online with the date and the reason, and we say plainly that publishing it was part of the problem. The crowd index means nothing without that.
We are wrong sometimes
Timetables change and we do not see it. Every Place and every Dossier has a correction field. We check the primary source, update or delist the page, credit the finder by first name and put a new verification date on it.
Money
The Atlas, the search, the crowd indexes and the Dispatch are free. The Dossier is €29, once, for one trip. There is no subscription and no booking: we sell the document and nothing else, and we take no commission on anyone else’s beds or seats.
The Draft is on screen immediately after payment. The verified Dossier follows by email within 24 hours, with a list of what we changed.
If verification kills the trip, you choose: the same Place in a workable week, a different Place in your week, or your €29 back. If we hear nothing for seven days we refund without being asked and send the findings anyway.
Refund for any other reason within 14 days: granted the same day, no questions, no survey.
What we ask you for
Departure city, dates, duration, transport rule, and an email at checkout. No account, no password, no phone number, no address, no location tracking. Dossiers live behind unguessable links so there is nothing to log into.