About
Our editors
A small desk, organised around one discipline: nothing publishes here unless someone went, or a primary source backs it.
Relax Explorer is edited the way the catalogue is built — slowly, and in person where it counts. The desk works in three roles rather than three departments, and most weeks one person wears more than one of them.
How the desk works
Field verification
The visits. Someone sleeps in the room, pays the bill, and checks what the venue publishes against what is actually true. This role is the reason the gold seal exists.
Research & documentation
The desk work behind the grey seal and the destination pages: primary sources, official registries, statistics offices. Every citation you see at the bottom of a destination page came through here.
Editorial direction
What gets covered, in what order, and the standard the writing holds. Also the person who says no — to venues that do not verify, and to partners who want the seal rather than the audience.
Where the bylines are
Named bios publish once the people behind them confirm the text — the same rule we apply to every other fact on this site. We would rather show you the method today than a wall of portraits tomorrow. Corrections, tips and disagreements are welcome through the contact page.