#1 principle
Standardized
Same basket, every destination.
What we're building.
Rewardopedia is an honest travel cost index. We price a standardized hotel night in every destination, refreshed monthly, with the spine of every figure tied to a confidence label, a date, and a public methodology. This is the publication; the rest is how we work.
The product.
Rewardopedia publishes one standardized number per destination per month: the Nth percentile of mid-tier hotels-only inventory inside the city's central polygon. We don't blend price feeds. We don't promise a real-time hotel price. We sample once a month, archive the methodology, and let readers cite the dated number.
Around the index sits the editorial: per-destination context, structurally-recommended credit cards (no points-pricing math), a handful of honest calculators (native units first, conservative cash-back floor as the secondary anchor).
What's deliberately not here: TPG-style "points are worth X cents" valuations, synthetic real-time hotel quotes, redemption-sweet-spot speculation, anything that requires us to overclaim a number we can't back.
Why this exists.
Most travel-rewards publications optimize for two failure modes. They quote prices that change before the page renders ("hotels from $200/night!") — and they value points at numbers favorable to their affiliate revenue ("this signup is worth $1,500").
Both make for content that ranks well on Google and lies to readers.
We chose the harder version: standardize what we measure, date every figure, label every claim, and decline to do the math we can't defend. The result is slower content that travels further once it's published — because it doesn't decay and it doesn't require trust.
Why this index can be trusted.
Anyone can post a price. We publish a standardized, sourced, dated one — and we take no commission on hotel bookings.
#2 principle
Sourced
One source per figure. Dated.
#3 principle
Public methodology
Documented, with audit cadence.
#4 principle
No hotel-booking commission
We don't earn from your hotel booking.
How we're funded — and not.
Rewardopedia is independently operated. We do not currently take any hotel-booking commission. We do not run sponsored placements. We do not accept payment to elevate or rank cards.
Card-affiliate links are permissible in v2 with FTC-compliant disclosure where they appear; they will never influence which cards we recommend or how they're ordered. The methodology behind every card surface — structural categories, no-FTF flags, transfer-partner existence — is what determines placement, not commission economics.
If that changes, it changes here first, in the public methodology, with a dated change-log entry.
Who we are.
Rewardopedia is a small editorial team building a publication, not an OTA. We come from a mix of credit-card data work, travel reporting, and observability engineering. We care about not lying to readers in surprisingly specific ways.
Talk to us: hello@rewardopedia.com.