This page describes how the guides on Explore Attica are produced, checked and corrected. It is written so that a reader can judge the work rather than take it on trust.
Sourcing
Figures come from primary sources wherever a primary source exists: Athens International Airport for taxi tariffs and terminal logistics, OASA and STASY for fares and timetables, ferry and coach operators for sailings and departures, sites and monasteries for admission and opening days, the official city guide for neighbourhood description.
Aggregator and comparison sites are used to establish market ranges for things that have no single official price — a private transfer fare, a hire car day rate, a hotel night. Those are always presented as ranges, and always flagged as market figures rather than quotes.
Verification
Every checkable claim — a number, a date, a distance, an opening time, a superlative — is checked against a source before publication. Re-reading a draft is not verification: fluent, specific, internally consistent prose can still be wrong, and in practice that is exactly what wrong figures look like.
Two failure modes get specific attention, because both have happened here:
- A figure that exists in a source but measures something else. A distance quoted in a reference is usually measured from a different starting point than the one the page is about.
- A range copied from the wrong part of a source. The temperature of water flowing into a lake is not the temperature of the lake.
Where no source can be found, the precision is removed rather than the sentence. "A short drive apart on the same coast road" is honest. A kilometre figure nobody can back is not.
What this site does not publish
- Invented experience. No page claims that anyone from Explore Attica was somewhere, waited somewhere, tested something or travelled a route, unless that is true. Editorial judgment — "for a first visit I would choose Koukaki" — is opinion and is fine. A fabricated memory is not.
- Testimonials or reviews. The site has no customers of its own, so it publishes no customer quotes, names or star ratings. The reviews guide explains how to read other people's transfer reviews instead.
- Partner brand names in the body text. Naming the commercial partner inside the prose reads as advertising and goes stale the moment the partner changes. Partners are declared in page metadata and disclosed on the affiliate disclosure page.
Automated checks before publishing
A script runs over every page before it goes live and blocks publication on any of the following: non-euro currency figures or currency named in words; competitor or partner brand names in the body; a missing, duplicated or mismatched booking widget; an internal link pointing at a page that does not exist; a declared link that never appears in the text; more than one H1; a title or meta description that will truncate in search results; leaked generator metadata; and a set of machine-written stock phrases.
These checks catch mechanical faults. They do not catch a wrong fact, which is what the human verification step is for.
Updating
Prices, tariffs, timetables and opening hours are the first things to go stale, and they are reviewed on a recurring basis. Every page carries the date it was last reviewed. Pages that quote a regulated figure — the airport taxi flat fare, transport ticket prices, site admission — are checked when the relevant authority publishes a change.
Readers are told throughout to confirm a current price with the operator before booking. That is not a disclaimer for its own sake: a published range is a planning tool, not a quote.
Corrections
Errors are corrected quickly and visibly rather than quietly. See corrections.