How The Cabin Class makes money

We never take bookings. Each cabin page has “Check prices” links to the operator and, for trains, to travel agents who sell the trip. For now, ship cabins link only to the operator’s own booking page. These links go through our own redirect, so they pass through thecabinclass.com before reaching the booking site. Some are affiliate links: if you book through one, the agent or operator may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing extra.

The operator’s own page is always listed first, whether or not it earns us anything.

How entries are made

Entries are researched and scored automatically from cited sources, and the checks are run again when an entry is updated. Every fact links to its source. The method is set out in full on How we score.

Coverage is never for sale. Operators don’t pay to be listed or scored, don’t see entries before they publish, and a commission never affects a score. Where we’ve accepted press access to a train or ship, its page says so plainly.

Prices

Train fares are shown as the source states them. Where an operator publishes no fares, the price shown may be one quoted by a third party, such as a travel agent, and the cabin page names who quoted it. This applies to trains and ships alike.

Ship fares are shown per person per night. We work them out from a fare and a number of nights that a source states, and the cabin page cites both. Every ship fare published so far has had an independent check: an AI model that did not write the entry re-opened those pages and confirmed the fare, the number of nights and the departure date. A fare it could not confirm was recorded as a disagreement between sources, and the cabin is held until a page that confirms it is found.

Our own products

The Cabin Class also sells its own products — a paid buyer’s guide and consultation calls. When we recommend our own products, we say that’s what we’re doing.

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