How we check every deal

The deal has to be on the attraction’s own site

We do not take deals from resellers, ticket aggregators, coupon sites or review platforms. If a saving cannot be found on the attraction’s own website, it does not go in the directory. This is enforced in the database itself, not just in process — a listing whose source is a third-party domain is rejected outright.

We quote it, word for word

Every listing carries the sentence we actually read, reproduced exactly, alongside a link to the page it came from. If we cannot quote it, we do not publish it. You never have to take our word for a saving — the evidence is on the page and the link is one click.

We tell you when we last looked

Attractions change their offers without notice, and most never publish an end date. Rather than invent an expiry we cannot stand behind, every deal shows the date we last read it on the venue’s site. Treat that date as what it is: the last moment we can vouch for. Always confirm on the attraction’s own site before you travel.

A page we could not read is not “no deal”

When a website blocks us or fails to load, we record that we could not read it. We never turn a failed check into a claim that an attraction has no offer. Absence of evidence is logged as absence of evidence.

The descriptions come from the attractions’ own websites

The paragraph on each attraction page is written from that attraction’s own site and its verified savings, and from nothing else. Before it is stored, every dollar figure and percentage in it is checked against the savings we hold — a price we cannot point at is rejected, not published. So is a paragraph that reads like an advertisement, or that names a state other than California.

Not every attraction has one. 923 of 944 do. Where an attraction’s own website gave us too little to describe it honestly, the page shows the savings and nothing else — which is the same rule as the photographs: a blank is honest, and a plausible invention is not.

When a deal ends, the attraction stays

Deals end. When we re-read an attraction’s website and the saving we quoted is no longer on it, we take the saving down — but we keep the attraction, and its page says no current deal found and the date we last looked. It does not say what the old deal was, and it never shows a price we can no longer see on their site. We keep checking, and if a deal comes back the page says so again. Right now 504 of the 944 attractions listed here are in that state.

An attraction only stays listed without a deal if there is still something on the page worth reading — a description written from its own website, and a photograph from it. Without both, it comes off the site until we have them.

We would rather show less

A town with one or two verified attractions does not get its own page, because a page with two rows on it wastes your time. Those attractions still appear on their region page. Likewise, every state other than California is empty right now — not because there is nothing there, but because we have not read it yet.