Method
What is checked, against which source, and when
Every itinerary is compiled remotely, from public sources. This page says what was checked online, against which source and on what date, what was not, and every correction made since the itineraries went on sale.
What is checked
- Hotels
- The hotel's official website and its Booking page: existence, address, phone, check-in and check-out times, taxes, and every claim in the text.
- Checked itineraries, listed below
- Booking links
- Every link opened one by one, in each language of the itinerary.
- Checked itineraries
- Tickets to book
- The official ticket office or website of the place: rules, dates, prices, time slots.
- Checked itineraries
- Journeys and excursions
- Every travel time rechecked one by one, every excursion operator identified on its own website.
- Mexico (long journeys), New Zealand and Singapore, on 10 September 2026, before they went on sale
- Map points
- OpenStreetMap, every point reviewed by hand.
- South Korea, on 5 September 2026
- Texts
- The French version of every itinerary, read line by line before it went on sale. The English and Spanish versions are translated from it.
- Every itinerary on sale
Only a finding established on an official source leads to a correction. Without an official source, nothing is changed.
What is not checked
- Nothing is tested on site: I have not visited any of the countries I sell, and nobody has slept in these hotels or used these tickets.
- Room availability and prices, which change every day.
- Opening hours, closing days and admission prices at the time of your trip: check them when you book.
- Short journeys, Google Maps links and photos.
- Itineraries that share hotels with a checked itinerary: fixes are carried over where the text is identical, but they are not checked themselves.
- The “Updated on” date of a product page: it is the date of its last edit, not of a check.
Last full check, by itinerary
A full check covers every hotel, every booking link and every ticket to book in an itinerary. Its date and count are also shown on the product page.
- Hokkaido in 14 days: Japan's great north from Sapporo to Hakodate
Online check of September 27, 2026: 9 hotels checked, 13 booking links tested, 5 tickets to book checked, 33 fixes made
The other 108 itineraries on sale have not had this full check yet.
Corrections log
Every correction made to an itinerary on sale, with its date. It only appears here once it is live: on the product page, or in the itinerary in your customer account, which replaces the old one.
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United States: ESTA fee and national parks pass; driving in Japan
In the United States itineraries, the ESTA has cost $40.62 since October 16, 2026 and should be applied for at least 72 hours before departure, according to the US authorities. The America the Beautiful pass costs $80 for US residents and $250 for non-residents; for non-residents it also covers the $100 fee per person aged 16 and over charged at 11 national parks, including Yosemite, Zion, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Acadia and the Everglades. On the English and Spanish pages of the Japan itineraries, the driver’s license rule now depends on the country that issued the license.
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New Zealand: the night below Mount Taranaki
The Dawson Falls lodge on Mount Taranaki has been demolished. Night 18 of the New Zealand 88-day itinerary and of the Far North, Waitomo and Taranaki module is spent at the Ngāti Ruanui Mountain Lodge, the former Stratford Mountain House, on the eastern side of the mountain.
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English and Spanish itineraries: formalities, driver’s license and health by nationality
In the English and Spanish versions of eleven itineraries (Croatia, South Korea, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States East and West), the boxes on formalities, driver’s licenses and health were written for a French traveler. They now address Americans and Britons in English, and Spaniards and Latin Americans in Spanish. In Japan, for example, French, Belgian, Swiss, German and Monegasque licenses need the official translation from the JAF, while American, British and Spanish licenses need an International Driving Permit under the 1949 Geneva Convention. Visa and entry rules point to their official source and should be checked again before departure.
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Article “The San'in coast and Shikoku: Japan without the crowds”
The official translation of the driver’s license is issued by the JAF or another approved body, not by the consulate as the article stated. The prices and opening hours quoted are now dated.
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Article “How many days do you need for Hokkaidō?”
Driving distance aligned with the travel book checked on 27/09: about 2,150 km for the 14-day loop, an average of one hundred and fifty kilometers a day, not 1,900 km and one hundred and forty. There are three long driving days of about four hours each, not two; the license translation comes from the JAF or another approved body, not the consulate.
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Hokkaido in 14 days
Travel times, opening hours and prices added to all 14 days: 72 travel times measured on Google Maps, 55 lines of opening hours and admission taken from official websites, and the date of the check at the bottom of each day. This check led to 53 fixes: 10 driving times written in the text that contradicted the measured route, 2 “to be confirmed” notes replaced by the published hours, 32 facts put right (for example 52 buildings, not 54, at the historical village, the beer museum visit being paid, the Shiretoko pass closed from early November), 5 map links that led to the wrong place, and the length of the route, corrected in 4 places: about 2,150 km, not 1,900.
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Hokkaido in 14 days
Full online check: 9 hotels, 13 booking links, 5 tickets to book. 33 fixes: 13 on hotels (2 wrong addresses, 3 outdated links, 8 inaccurate descriptions), 13 on visits and tickets (times, rules, prices, descriptions, links), 5 on practical information (driver’s license, lodging tax, car drop-off, airport transfer) and 2 official links that were too general. They were carried over to Hokkaidō in 18 days and to the Japan 88 days itinerary wherever the text was identical.
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Japan 88 days and Japan 86 days
The season window shown on the product page only applied to one stage, Hokkaidō for one and Kyoto for the other, but read as if it covered the whole trip. It is now tied to its stage.
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New England and the Great Lakes in 17 days, Eastern United States in 88 days
The Hilton Fallsview in Niagara was listed at 6700 Fallsview Boulevard, with a phone number that was not its own. Address (6361 Fallsview Boulevard) and phone number corrected.
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Titicaca and the road to Cusco in 7 days, complete Peru in 82 days
The Titicaca Home is not on the lake shore: it stands on a floating Uros island, thirty minutes by boat from Puno. Its address now says so.
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New Mexico and Texas in 8 days, American West in 89 days
3 booking links replaced with a bookable page or the official website (Pine Springs, Whites City, Pueblo Bonito). The Holbrook hotel now carries its current name, Lexington Inn, and the link to its former brand is removed.
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Lima and the south coast, Arequipa and the canyons, Titicaca and the road to Cusco
These three Peru stages were missing sections of the complete itinerary: tickets and bookings in all three, stage transport in the first. They have been added, taken from the complete itinerary.
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South Korea, maps of the 10 itineraries
Of the 68 map points placed automatically, 19 were in the wrong place. All were corrected by hand before the maps went online. The 13 points of the Seoul module had been placed by hand.
Report an error
A closed hotel, a dead link, a changed opening time: write to me with the itinerary and the day. Once the error is confirmed on an official source, the itinerary is corrected and the correction is added to this log.