Editorial Policy

Why this page exists

Publishing about holiday villa rental without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.

The names on the work

We attach a person to every article on purpose. It means a mistake costs the writer something, which is the strongest quality control a site this size has.

Ines Delgado, Founder and booker. Ines spent years as a travel agent placing clients in holiday rentals before she started booking villas full time. She reads contracts for a living now, and she started this site after watching too many travellers pay deposits they never got back. She sets the standard every guide here has to clear.

Bram Feddersen, Villa reviewer. Bram stays in villas and writes down what he finds, plainly, whether the pool was really heated and whether the kitchen had a working oven. He is generous with detail and happy to say when a photo promised more than the property delivered.

Suriya Nathan, Planning and logistics. Suriya plans the parts of a villa trip that nobody thinks about until they go wrong, the airport run, the grocery order, the room allocation for eight adults. She writes about the logistics that decide whether a week feels like a holiday or a house move.

The money side

Some links on this site are commercial. They never buy a rewrite of the surrounding paragraph.

We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.

Where topics come from

A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.

Our refusals

• Claims about outcomes that nobody can verify.
• Content produced only to fill a keyword slot.
• Recommendations we would not give a friend who asked in person.

Dates

Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.

From notes to published page

1. Draft from experience, not from a page of search results.
2. Underline every claim that rests on memory rather than a source.
3. Support it or lose it. Each underline is backed by something we can name, or it comes out.
4. A cold read by a second person catches the confident guesses the writer stopped seeing.

How mistakes are handled

Corrections go to info@destinyvillastay.com. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.