How we sort results

Accommodation, prices and reviews come from the Google hotel search. We only show accommodation that at least one of our partners offers for your travel dates. We check this for each property individually in the offer comparison of the Google hotel search. Our partners pay us a commission if you book with them through us. We hide properties that none of them offers, even if Google lists them. This does not change the order of the rest.

Searching around a park. If you choose a park in the search, the park’s name and location are your search, for example “Europa-Park, Rust” – Google then lists the places to stay in the area. Each place to stay shows how far it is from the park entrance as the crow flies – this plays no part in the order. Only the hotels on the park pages are sorted by straight-line distance to the entrance (see How we work).

The default order (“Recommended”) is the one in which Google lists the properties for your search. We adopt it with one exception: if you are searching for two or more guests or with a child, and our partners’ cheapest price for a property only applies to beds in a dormitory, the property is placed after the others and receives no award. We label such prices “Bed in a dormitory”. After that come the further properties that Google names on its map for the area shown, in Google’s order.

The price shown for each property is our partners’ cheapest offer for your travel dates, as stated by the Google hotel search. You can order the list yourself: by this price per night, by the best guest rating or by the number of reviews. All properties then appear together in this order, properties without this information at the end. The filters (price per night, free cancellation, guest rating, hotel class, amenities) are applied by Google; for the price, our partners’ price also counts. The list follows the map: if you move or zoom it, the map loads the properties for the new area from the Google hotel search, and the list only shows the properties within the map area (properties without a known location always remain). This does not change the order.

With the “Recommended” order, we show “Your best options” above the list: at most four properties from the first page of results, each with one award, according to fixed rules. “Value for money” goes to the lowest total price confirmed by the provider among the properties with a rating of at least 4.0 from 50 reviews, if it is at least 5 % below their median price. “Best rating” goes to the highest guest rating on Google with at least 100 reviews, “Best location” to Google’s highest rating of the location, if it is at least 4.5. An award requires at least 3 comparable properties, the selection at least 5 with a price; if there is a tie, there is none. A price only for beds in a dormitory receives no award for two or more guests or with a child (see above). Each property carries at most one award — if it deserves several, we mention the others alongside it instead of giving them to another property. Commissions play no role in this.

For the offers for a property, we only show providers we work with through a partner programme. We receive a commission from them if you book with them through us. Other providers that Google lists, including the hotel’s own website, do not appear there. The offers are labelled “Ad”.

They are listed by the total price for the whole stay, in ascending order, including taxes and fees, as stated by Google. If there is no total price, the price per night multiplied by the number of nights counts. Offers without a price come last. The offer with the lowest total price is at the top and highlighted in colour. Whether a provider appears depends on our cooperation; where it appears depends only on the price. The amount of the commission plays no role in this.

Under “Rooms and rates”, only rooms from our partners are listed, in the order in which Google lists them.

• For the offers for a property, we only show our partners (see 1).
• Which offers appear in a list depends on your search.
• Where the prices come from and when they were retrieved is stated on every list.
• How we select and order the offers on our theme and destination pages is explained under How we work.