Every destination page on this site states what a room typically costs there, and how much that moves between weeks. Those are measurements, not estimates. This page explains exactly how they are made, so you can judge them — and quote them.
For each of the destinations we cover, we record the live rate of every property we can actually book for a two-night stay for two adults. Not a sample of hotels, not a partner selection: everything that comes back as bookable at that moment.
We do that three separate times, in windows roughly a month apart, and report the middle of those three.
Every measurement window runs Tuesday to Thursday. That sounds pedantic and it is the single most important rule here.
Sampling «thirty days from today» drifts across the calendar: refresh on a Friday and you price a weekend, refresh on a Monday and you price midweek. Two destinations measured on different days are then not comparable — which makes any table of them meaningless. A fixed weekday removes that.
From is the low end of the market: the fifth percentile, not the single cheapest room. One odd listing should not set the headline figure for a whole city.
Typical is the median — half the rooms cost less, half cost more. It describes a destination far better than the cheapest price does, and it is the number to plan with.
Week-to-week swing is the dearest of our three measurement weeks divided by the cheapest. A figure near 1.0 means the date barely matters; above 1.8 it matters more than the hotel's star rating.
A measurement round that returns far fewer properties than the others is discarded rather than published. A truncated sample loses the cheap end of the market first, which makes an ordinary destination look expensive.
If fewer than two usable rounds survive, we keep the previous figures and say nothing new. A month-old price is better than a wrong one.
These are midweek prices for two adults, a month or more ahead. Your dates, your party size and how far ahead you book all move the number. Use these figures to compare destinations and to judge whether a quote is reasonable — not as a quote themselves.
We also measure the price, not the cause. When a city swings by a factor of two we can usually guess why, but we do not claim to know.
You are welcome to quote or republish any figure from this site, including the tables, as long as you name Staybello as the source and link to the page you took it from. No permission needed and no fee.
If you want a cut of the data we do not publish — a particular country, a longer time series — write to hello@staybello.com and say what you are working on.