Editorial
Our Method Afloat
The sailing: what one evening aboard can and cannot tell you
One evening shows how boarding felt, how the crew handled a first-timer, whether the room stayed organised under way, and what the light did on the water that night.
It cannot prove how every sailing will go. Weather, water and the operator's own decisions can shorten, delay or hold a trip alongside. We write what we saw and stop there. We do not invent a timetable, a fare or a promise of availability.
Reading the real reviews: how we weigh what passengers say against what we saw
Passenger reviews on these pages are quoted word for word from the platforms where they were published, with the same spelling, length and attribution.
We set that chorus beside our own evening. When guests keep naming the same crew habits or the same view, we say so. When a single glowing line overstates what a night can deliver, we say that too — without "cleaning up" their words. Photographs attached to a review stay inside that reviewer's card.
Facts we will not print — fares, timetables, capacities and anything else we cannot verify
If a fact is not on file for an operator, this guide does not invent it.
That means no fares, no departure grids, no seat counts, no vessel lengths, no awards we did not verify, and no owner's biography. Categories, addresses, phones and source ratings appear because they are in the record we were given. Everything else stays off the page — including any figure of money.
Corrections: how to tell us an operator has changed something, and what happens then
Addresses move, phones change, and programmes shift. Tell us through Enquiries or at [email protected].
We check what we can, correct the page when the change is verified, and leave a dated note when the update is material. We do not take instruction from an operator on how a review should read; we do fix facts that are wrong.