The Choice JournalHow we choose

Travel guides

Suitcases, rail tickets, package holidays and hotels. In travel the fine print is half the product, so each guide sets out booking fees, change rules and refund terms beside the picks, as they stood on the month we read them.

7 guides

How we choose

We read the product pages, the size guides, the delivery and returns small print, and a few hundred customer reviews, lowest-rated first. Then we pick. We do not test products ourselves and we never pretend to.

Read how we choose
  • Every pick checked on the brand's UK site, with the month we read it
  • A real weakness for every product, not just the ones we liked less
  • No scores out of ten: each pick earns an award, and a reason
  • Commission never decides what makes the list