Editorial Standards

Anyone can publish a list of "fun things to do." What's harder - and what we've built this site around - is publishing facts that are still true when you actually show up. These are the rules we hold ourselves to, and the ones you can hold us accountable to.

How We Produce Content

Every page starts as a draft built from official sources: venue websites, published pricing, government and tourism-board data, accessibility documentation where it exists. A human editor then checks that draft against those same sources before anything goes live - no page is published on a draft alone.

We get things wrong sometimes - a price changes the week after we check it, a venue quietly closes an exhibit. When that happens, we fix the page and log what changed and when, rather than editing quietly as if the error never existed. If you've found something outdated or inaccurate, tell us at Talk to Us - we read every report and correct confirmed errors, typically within a few business days.

What We Verify, and How Often

Prices, operating hours, and age-appropriateness ratings are checked against the venue's own site or a direct inquiry, never copied from another article or an old review. Every listing shows the date it was last verified. Nothing goes longer than six months without a recheck. Attractions with a history of frequent changes - seasonal hours, event-driven pricing, limited-time exhibits - get checked more often than that, on a schedule set by how often that specific venue has changed in the past, not a flat rule applied everywhere.

Accessibility details - stroller access, sensory rooms, allergy-friendly food options - are checked against the venue's own accessibility page where one exists. Where it doesn't, we note that the detail is unconfirmed rather than assume it based on similar venues. Where we can't confirm something, the page says so. "Not published by the venue" is a real answer we use. Guessing at a number and presenting it as fact is not something we do, even when a gap in the data looks better filled in.

When We Get Something Wrong

On a site tracking this many prices, hours, and details across dozens of venues, errors happen - a price increases the week after we check it, a venue quietly closes an exhibit, a reader catches something we missed. When that happens, we don't quietly edit the page as if the mistake never existed.

Here's what happens instead: the page is updated with the correct information, the "last verified" date is refreshed to reflect the recheck, and - for anything beyond a minor typo (a wrong price, an incorrect age recommendation, an outdated accessibility claim) - we add a short note at the bottom of the page stating what changed and when, so a reader who saw the old version isn't left wondering which one to trust.

What We Will Never Do

We don't publish invented personal experience. No page on this site describes a visit that didn't happen, and we don't write from the perspective of a family that doesn't exist. Our Family Friction Score, Skip It If notes, and Pro Tips sections are built from aggregated, verifiable patterns - official information, accessibility documentation, publicly available reviews - not from a fabricated first-person account.

We don't use stock photography and present it as a real photo of a specific venue. Full detail is on our Photo Policy page.

How the Family Friction Score Works

Every attraction is scored across eight factors - parking, queue time, walking distance, stroller access, restroom access, heat exposure, crowd and noise level, and schedule flexibility - each rated individually with the reasoning shown, not just a final number. The full methodology, including how we weight and calculate the total, is on our Methodology page.

If you've spotted something outdated or inaccurate, Contact Us. Include the page and what you think is wrong - we check every report against the original source before making a change, and confirmed corrections are typically live within a few business days. We'd rather hear about ten reports that turn out to be already-correct than miss the one that isn't.