How We Pick

Every city and attraction on KidWaypoint went through the same selection process. Nothing is added because a venue asked us to, and nothing is left off because it didn't pay for placement - the criteria below are the only reasons something is or isn't on this site.

Choosing a City

We look at three things before a city gets a guide:

Enough family infrastructure to justify full coverage. A city needs a real spread of activities across age groups and weather conditions - not just one theme park with a hotel strip around it. If there isn't enough there for a toddler, a ten-year-old, and a rainy Tuesday, it's not ready for a guide yet.
A genuine gap in what already exists. We check what's already ranking for that city before committing to it. If the existing coverage is thin, outdated, or written for adults with kids as an afterthought, that's a city worth doing properly. If a handful of sites already cover it well, we deprioritize it - we'd rather add something real than compete with a paragraph reworded.
Enough attractions to make the page useful on day one. A city guides launche with its full attraction set already researched - not a placeholder page that fills in over time. If we don't have enough verified attractions ready, the city waits.

This is also why our list mixes large destinations with smaller ones. Size isn't the deciding factor - readiness is.

Choosing an Attraction Within a City

Once a city is selected, not every venue in it makes the cut. An attraction gets its own page when it meets all of the following:

It's realistically visitable with children in at least one age range (infant through teen)
Enough factual information exists to verify pricing, hours, and access - if a venue publishes almost nothing, we can't build a reliable page around it
It offers something distinct from other attractions already covered in the same city - we don't publish near-duplicate entries just to inflate a count

We do not exclude an attraction because it has poor accessibility, high prices, or long lines. Those are exactly the details parents need - leaving out a flawed venue would be less useful than reviewing it honestly, including where it falls short.

What We Don't Do

We don't accept payment in exchange for adding an attraction, adjusting its coverage, or influencing how it's described. Any commercial relationship with a venue - a media pass, a comped ticket - is disclosed on the attraction's page and on our Disclosures page, and never affects what we publish.

We also don't score or rank attractions on this page. How each attraction is evaluated once it's selected - the specific factors we check and how we weigh them - is a separate, detailed process covered in our Family Friction Score methodology, linked from every attraction page.

Think we've missed something, or got a selection wrong? Contact Us - every suggestion gets reviewed against the criteria above, not added automatically.