Editorial Methodology

How places earn coverage

• A place must support the Athens first-trip wedge: base choice, Acropolis and museum planning, dining, rooftops, coast, or day trips.
• Core facts should come from official, owner-controlled, or otherwise primary sources wherever possible.
• Seasonal, price, opening-hour, ticketing, reservation, beach-access, transport, and event claims must be rechecked before precision matters.
• Draft records can remain unpublished or noindex until editorial depth, media rights, and source confidence are strong enough for public use.

How we evaluate local recommendations

Our local recommendations are based on a mix of editorial research, source checks, field notes where available, local context, and feedback from people who know or have used the place.

When useful, we speak with local residents, hospitality professionals, repeat visitors, and independent contributors to understand how a place works in real visitor situations. We use this input to judge whether a recommendation is practical, consistent, and useful for the guide's intended audience.

We may also consider private feedback about customer experiences. Private comments are treated as confidential: we do not publish names, identifying details, screenshots, or direct quotes without permission. Private feedback is used only as an internal editorial signal, and we look for repeated patterns before relying on it.

A place is recommended only when the overall evidence supports it: location fit, consistency of experience, service reliability, value for the intended visitor, and alignment with the guide's purpose. Paid placement, partnership interest, or owner outreach does not guarantee recommendation.

Media and photos

Athens pages should not use decorative stock imagery as proof. A photo must be stored locally, licensed for site use, tied to a source URL, and mapped to a specific placement before it appears in metadata or page UI.

Contextual Athens, Riviera, or neighborhood images may support planning pages, but they must not imply that a hotel, restaurant, beach, or attraction is shown unless the asset is entity-specific.

Editorial and commercial contact

Corrections, official-source updates, and partnership outreach can improve data quality, but they do not buy recommendation, ranking, or inclusion. Athens Guide Editorial Desk keeps editorial judgment separate from commercial contact.