Editorial Policy

What Love Bratislava is

Love Bratislava is an independent guide to a compact, walkable capital. We organise the city around the routes you actually cover on foot — the Old Town crown route between Michael's Gate and the castle, the Danube promenade, the coffeehouse and wine-cellar circuit, and the day trips to Devín and the riverside galleries. We favour a few well-explained pages over an endless directory of pins.

How we choose what to recommend

• Usefulness on the ground — does it make a real Bratislava day better, not just longer?
• Walkability — can you reach it on foot from the Old Town, or with one easy tram, bus, or boat (Devín, Danubiana)?
• Atmosphere and light — viewpoints like the castle terraces and Slavín are timed for golden into blue hour, because that is when they are worth the climb.
• Honest value — we flag the weekday set-lunch (denné menu), the free viewpoints, and what the Bratislava CARD actually covers.

How we handle facts that change

Some of what you need to plan a trip is genuinely perishable: admission prices, opening hours, transport fares, and Christmas-market or festival dates. We do not pretend these are fixed. Where we quote one, we verify it against the official venue, the IDS BK transport authority, or the Visit Bratislava tourist board, record it in our facts-and-sources log, and link the source on the page so you can re-check it. Where something is seasonal or genuinely unreliable — the Blue Church's service-tied interior hours, say — we say so plainly and point you to the source of truth rather than printing a number we cannot stand behind.

Freshness & authorship

Each guide carries a real editorial review date in its page metadata — the date we last checked its facts — rather than an automatic file timestamp. Articles are written and maintained by the Love Bratislava editorial team and attributed to the organisation; we do not invent named personas or fake bylines. If something is out of date, the fastest fix is to tell us with the page URL and the change.

External links

We keep outbound links restrained and purposeful. When we link off-site it is because the official page — a museum, the transport operator, the tourist board — is the most accurate place to confirm tickets, hours, closures, and announcements. The full list lives on our sources page.