Editorial policy

What gets written

Every guide answers a specific problem someone actually has: what to do when the room has no kettle, whether their capsules will fit, what security will let through. If we cannot state the problem in one sentence, we do not write the article.

We do not publish topic variations to occupy search results. There is no “best coffee makers of 2026” list here, and there is no separate page for every city with the same advice reworded.

How it is written

• By hand, and edited. Guides are written and reviewed by a person. We do not mass-generate articles.
• Specific over comprehensive. A guide that tells you the one thing that actually goes wrong beats one that lists twelve considerations.
• Honest about uncertainty. Where practice varies or a rule is set by someone else — an airline, a security agency, a manufacturer — we say so and point at the authority rather than pretending to be one.
• No padding. No throat-clearing introductions, no restating the question, no conclusion that repeats the article.

Safety topics

Some of this touches on electrical safety — travel kettles, voltage, adapters. On those topics we defer to the manufacturer’s instructions on the appliance in front of you, and we say so explicitly in the guide. We would rather tell you to read the label than give you a confident rule that is wrong for your kettle.

Commercial independence

RoomBrew currently takes no advertising and has no affiliate relationships. Nothing in the guides is paid for, and no hotel or manufacturer has any influence over what we publish about them.

If that changes, it will be disclosed clearly on the page it affects, not only in a policy document. See advertising disclosure.

Updating and corrections

Guides carry an updated date. When advice changes materially, we say what changed rather than editing silently. See the corrections policy.

Relationship to the database

The guides support the hotel database, not the other way round. Where a guide makes a claim about what hotels typically provide, that claim comes from our own researched data and links to it, so you can check the underlying properties yourself.