Doalu has no panel of editors scoring hotels. Our pages are about places — cities, towns, coasts, and neighbourhoods — and the way we choose and order them is simple and the same across the whole site.
Ranking. Where places are ranked, they are ordered by global recognition: how widely each place is read about across Wikipedia's language editions. A place known across many languages ranks above one known mostly at home. The signal is computed from public Wikipedia and Wikidata usage data (the QRank dataset), it is applied identically to every place, and no one can pay to move up.
Data. Place facts come from open sources: GeoNames for geography and the place hierarchy (CC-BY), Wikidata for identifiers and durable facts (CC0), and Wikipedia for context (CC-BY-SA). We keep claims grounded in those sources and leave out what we cannot verify.
Area guidance. Which neighbourhood suits which trip is guidance we author ourselves on top of that data, with the trade-offs stated plainly — central but busy, quiet but a ride from the centre.
What we do not do. We do not hand-pick hotels, we do not inspect properties, and we do not collect or verify guest reviews. Booking happens with partners, and booking links may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. A commission never changes a ranking, a description, or the order of anything on a page.