How we verify hotels

A hotel is listed only when the hotel itself says guests can play table tennis there. This is what that means in practice.

Edited by Lori, our editor.

The three rules

1
The hotel has to stand behind it.
On its own website, in its own listing on a booking site, in a recent post on its own social media, or by confirming it to us by email or phone. Guest reviews, blogs and “best of” articles never count, however convincing they sound.
2
The table has to be at the hotel, and guests have to be able to use it.
Not a club down the road, not a table that only comes out for events or tournaments, not a meeting room named after the game. If we can’t tell, the hotel isn’t listed.
3
Every listing shows the proof.
Every hotel page says what kind of source it is, quotes it word for word when it is text, links to it and gives the date we checked it, so you can check it yourself.

What counts as a source

Counts

The hotel’s own website: a facilities, activities or amenities page, the hotel’s page on its chain’s website, or its official fact sheet, that mentions table tennis or ping pong.
The hotel’s own listing on a booking site such as Trip.com, Booking.com or Hostelworld: a photo of the table, or the hotel’s own description of it. Many hotels keep these listings more up to date than their own websites.
A post on the hotel’s own social media from the last two years that shows or mentions the table.
The hotel telling us by email or phone that guests can play there. Our editor reads the reply herself, and the hotel page then says so, with the date.

Doesn’t count

Guest reviews. Tables come and go, and a review from years ago says nothing about today.
Blogs, lists, tour operators and agencies. We never copy a claim we can’t trace back to the hotel.
A ticked box on its own. Booking sites’ facility checkboxes sometimes mark a padel court or a single table as a “table tennis room”. Since October 2026 a new hotel needs more: a photo of the table, the hotel’s own words about it, or a second source.
A source the hotel contradicts. When the hotel tells us or shows that the table is gone, or that guests can’t use it, we go by the hotel.

What you see on every hotel page

What kind of source it is: the hotel’s website, its booking-site listing, its social media or the hotel telling us.
The words about the table, quoted word for word, or, for a photo or a confirmation, what it shows.
A link to the source where there is one, and the date we last checked it.
“Reviewed by Lori” with a date, when our editor has looked at the hotel herself, for example read its email to us or checked the photo of the table it sent (about Lori).

Where the source gives more detail, such as the number of tables, indoor or outdoor, free or paid, or the equipment, we show that too. If the source doesn’t say, we leave it out rather than guess.

When we can’t confirm it

If we can’t trace the table to the hotel’s own information, or it isn’t clear that guests can use it, the hotel is left out, even when the claim sounds plausible. We add a hotel as soon as the hotel itself confirms it.

We check the sources again. In September 2026 we fetched every source page, kept the hotels whose own words we could still find, and took out the ones we could no longer confirm, including hotels whose websites we couldn’t reach. Since then a script fetches every source page again once a month, and any listing whose wording has gone from its source is checked again by hand.

The directory currently lists 373 hotels in 121 destinations. The data was last reviewed on 12 Oct 2026.

Ratings, reviews, photos and prices

We collect no reviews ourselves. A guest rating appears only with the site it comes from, such as Booking.com or Google Maps, and ratings from different sites are never combined.
Reviews and photos on hotel pages come from Google Maps, with the name of the person who wrote or took them. We don’t edit or pick them; they are separate from our check of the table.
We publish no prices. Room rates change all the time, so booking links show the live rate instead.

Facilities change

A hotel can remove its table without telling anyone. If playing matters to your stay, ask the hotel before you book. And if you find a mistake here, tell us so we can fix it.

How the site is paid for

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