Hotel TipWaikiki

Editorial Policy & Fact-Checking Standards

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This policy explains how Hotel Tip Waikiki researches, writes, checks and updates its guides, and how we keep editorial decisions separate from the way the site earns money.

Independence

Hotel Tip Waikiki is not owned by or affiliated with any hotel, resort operator or travel company. We earn commissions through the Booking.com affiliate program, as explained in our affiliate disclosure, but no hotel or booking site reviews our articles before publication. Hotels cannot pay for a review, a placement or a better position in a ranking. They are welcome to send corrections, which we check against official information like any other report.

How articles are produced

Articles are researched and drafted with the help of software tools, including AI writing assistants. Before anything is published, every fee, price and policy in it is checked against its source: the hotel’s own website or an official government or agency source. We don’t use AI tools to invent experiences, quotes or reviews, and we don’t claim personal stays at the hotels we cover; our reviews are research-based, as our review method explains. Articles are published under the Hotel Tip Waikiki Editorial Team byline.

Sourcing standards

  • Hotel facts such as resort fees, parking, check-in times and fee inclusions come from the hotel’s own website first.
  • Hotel taxes and transport fares come from official government or agency sources.
  • When a hotel brand blocks automated checks of its pages, we use tour-operator listings that repeat the hotel’s own notice, and the table says so. Booking-site listings are a last resort and are labeled as such.
  • Each hotel’s facts are stored in our hotel registry with a “facts as of” month, and our fact boxes and tables show when fees were checked.
  • Photos from Wikimedia Commons are credited to their authors, with their license.

Keeping pages up to date

Hawaii hotel costs change often, so updating is part of the job. We review fee pages at least quarterly and whenever a reader reports a change, and we revise pages when an official change takes effect. In October 2026, for example, we:

  • recalculated fee and cost tables across the site for Oahu’s 18.712% hotel tax, which reflects the state TAT increase to 11%;
  • updated our luau comparison after Paradise Cove closed;
  • updated TheBus fares and the airport route in our airport-to-Waikiki transport guide.

Each page shows the date it was last updated.

Corrections

If you find an error, email editorial@hoteltipwaikiki.com with the page address and, if possible, a link to the official source. We check every report against the hotel’s or agency’s own information. When a correction is confirmed, we fix the page, update the hotel registry so fact boxes and tables match, and update the Spanish version as well. If a report can’t be confirmed from an official source, we keep the current figure until it can be, and we may note the uncertainty on the page.

Translations

Every guide is published in English and Spanish. Spanish versions are translated from the English with the help of software tools and carry the same facts and figures. When a fact changes, we update both versions.

We don’t publish sponsored articles or display ads. Booking.com links and our hotel search box are affiliate links, and pages that contain them carry a short notice near the top. Affiliate relationships never decide what we recommend or how we rank it.