Trust & reviews policy
Our editorial wedge is honesty. These are the rules we hold ourselves to — and the rules that camps and reviewers must accept. We'd rather tell you what we don't yet do than imply we do.
What's true today
We don't write reviews, and we never will
Every review on this site comes from a real, first-hand visit by a real person — a stay, or lessons at a school you didn't sleep at. We do not write sample reviews, we do not invent reviewers, and we do not pad a thin page to make a camp look established. If a camp has no reviews, it says so.
Reviewer skill is always shown
Every review shows the reviewer's Surf Level at the time they wrote it. A 5-star rating from a Level 3 surfer at a beginner-friendly camp means something different than a 5-star from a Level 6 — and we make that visible, not hidden in fine print. That level-weighting is the point of the site.
No paid placement, ever
Best-of guides and rankings are ordered by editorial judgment of fit — never by who pays us. Nobody pays us: there is no paid placement and no sponsored listing, and there never has been.
We earn nothing from your booking
There are no affiliate links on this site. Every “Check availability” link goes to the camp's own website or, where a camp only takes bookings through a marketplace, to that marketplace — labelled as such on the listing. We earn no commission either way — today, nothing you book pays us. If that ever changes, it will be stated here and on the listing itself before a single link earns anything, and it still won't bear on a camp's rating or inclusion.
Tell us when something looks wrong
Every camp and spot page has a “Report incorrect info” control — nothing you report auto-publishes; a human checks it. For anything else, use /feedback. A real person reads every note.
How member reviews work
These are the standards member-written reviews launched with. We're stating them here so the rules stay public, not buried in fine print.
Every qualifying review published — including 1-star
Every review that meets community standards is published, negative ones included. Camps cannot pay to remove or hide a review.
Owners may respond, not censor
Verified camp owners will be able to post one public response per review — that capability hasn't shipped yet. Once it does, owners will not be able to edit or delete a user's review, or pay to suppress it. Owner edits to a listing (photos, amenities, descriptions) will be tracked.
Anti-spam & integrity
Reviewers need an account, and sign-in is Google-only — so the address behind a review is one Google has verified, and we never see a password. Reviews are rate-limited per user; flagged reviews are recorded for review by the site owner; and any account engaged in coordinated fake reviewing (positive or negative) will be removed. We are one person, not a moderation team — a flag is read when we get to it, not within a promised window.