How we test, review, and update.

Every destination, hotel, park, and restaurant covered on York Adventures has been visited in person by Michael York. We do not publish guides built from press releases, hotel-database aggregations, or other writers’ reporting.

If a place hasn’t been visited yet, it doesn’t get a guide. If a guide is on the site, you can assume Michael walked it, slept in it, ate at it, or photographed it himself. When a piece of information comes from a third-party source — an operator’s published menu, a tourism board press kit — we cite it inline.

Hotel reviews are based on a minimum two-night stay. Whenever possible we inspect multiple room categories, walk the public areas across morning, afternoon, and evening, and try every on-property restaurant at least once.

We pay our own way unless a stay is explicitly disclosed as a media rate or comp — and even then, the rating reflects the experience, not the comp. We tell you what worked, what didn’t, and which room categories we’d actually book again with our own credit card.

Restaurant write-ups draw from at least two visits whenever logistically possible. We order across the menu — appetizers, mains, desserts, and one off-menu wildcard — and we sit in different sections to gauge service consistency.

We pay for our own meals. We do not accept comped dinners in exchange for coverage. If a meal was hosted (rare, and only at all-inclusive resorts where dining is bundled into the room rate), we say so in the article.

Evergreen articles — hotel guides, park guides, pricing comparisons — are reviewed for accuracy at least once every twelve months. The “Last updated” date on each post reflects the most recent factual review, not just a typo fix.

When we correct a factual error, we keep the original wording with a strikethrough and add the corrected version inline so readers can see what changed and when. Significant corrections are noted at the top of the article.

Some links on this site are affiliate links — if you click through and book, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Where present, those links are marked clearly inline or in a notice at the top of the article.

Affiliate relationships never determine whether a property gets recommended. We’ve declined commissions on places we can’t honestly recommend, and we recommend places we have no affiliate relationship with whenever they’re the right answer.

York Adventures does not publish fully AI-generated articles. Every guide is researched on the ground, drafted by Michael, and reflects his first-hand opinions and experience.

We do use AI tools for grammar checks, copy-editing, and converting field notes into prose — the same way a human copy editor would. The opinions, judgments, photographs, and reporting are Michael’s own. If we ever publish a piece that’s materially AI-assisted beyond editing, we’ll say so at the top.

Spotted a wrong price, an outdated hour, or a hotel that has rebranded? We want to know. The fastest way to reach the editorial desk is by email through our contact page.

Include the article URL, the specific claim that’s wrong, and (if you have one) a source. We aim to respond within a week and to publish factual corrections within fourteen days.