We research streets, not bedrooms
Most hotel reviews tell you about the hotel. Almost none tell you about the three minutes of walking you do between the metro exit and the front door at 11pm, which is usually what people actually worry about when booking somewhere they have never been. nebastay guide reviews the location. The hotel's service, breakfast and thread count are somebody else's department.
What we do
- Review the location, not the hotel: how the streets feel after dark, how well connected the area is, and which properties sit on the better blocks.
- Build every guide from public sources, not paid placements or press trips.
- Have a person review each guide before it is published. Research and drafting are AI-assisted, and we say so.
- Fix published guides without argument when your evidence is better than ours.
What we do not do
- Claim to have stayed in every hotel we write about.
- Put a journalist byline on the guides. The publisher is the brand.
- Take payment to include a hotel, rank it higher, or remove an unflattering note about its street.
- Guarantee safety. Conditions change, so check current official advisories before you travel.
The method
How the research is done
We build each guide from public sources, not from paid placements or press trips.
Public crime and incident statistics
Where a city publishes them at neighborhood level.
Official government travel advisories
Traveler reviews and neighborhood discussion
Read in volume and weighted for recency.
Transit maps and walking routes
Between properties and the nearest stations.
Research and drafting are AI-assisted, and every guide is reviewed by a person before it is published. We think that is worth stating plainly rather than implying a newsroom that does not exist.
Related project
This site is published by the same people behind Neba, a browser extension that answers questions about a property's safety, vibe and fit while you are on the listing page. The guides here and the extension share a starting point: the location matters at least as much as the room.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date, or unfair to a neighborhood you know better than we do, we want to hear about it. Tell us what to fix. Corrections to published guides are made without argument when the evidence is better than ours.