Total-cost transparency
How clearly a provider helps travelers see taxes, mandatory fees, deposits, and property-paid charges before booking.
About Trip Stay Guide
Trip Stay Guide is an independent hotel and travel comparison guide for U.S. users. We focus on the booking details that most often change the real cost of a trip: taxes, resort fees, cleaning fees, cancellation terms, loyalty program tradeoffs, and who controls the reservation after checkout.
What we do
We summarize major hotel groups, booking platforms, and vacation rental paths so readers can decide where to continue their search. We link to official provider pages when a reader needs current prices, availability, fees, cancellation terms, or booking support.
Trip Stay Guide is not a travel agency, booking agent, hotel, or marketplace. We do not sell rooms, process payments, change reservations, issue refunds, or control provider policies.
How We Review
Every brand comparison uses the same review dimensions so pages remain consistent and easier to compare:
Cancellation flexibility
How easy it is to identify cancellation windows, prepaid restrictions, refund paths, and who handles changes.
Loyalty value
Whether direct booking, membership pricing, points, elite credit, or platform rewards materially affect the decision.
Fee disclosure clarity
How visible resort fees, cleaning fees, service fees, parking, pet fees, breakfast rules, and other add-ons are during comparison.
Support quality
How cleanly a traveler can identify who owns the reservation and where to go if a rate, room, cancellation, or refund question arises.
Editorial standards
Our editorial process is described in the Editorial Policy. Commissions may support the site, but they do not control our conclusions or the review dimensions we apply.