Practical

Editorial Policy

How Love Kotor researches, fact-checks and updates its Kotor and Bay of Kotor guides — and who stands behind them.

By the Love Kotor editorial team·Updated Jul 20262 min read·3 sections

The short version

✓Every guide is researched against primary and official sources and reviewed by the editorial team before it publishes.
✓Time-sensitive facts — boat seasons, ferry times, cruise calls, seasonal tickets — are flagged to verify rather than frozen into the prose.
✓Recommendations are editorial and independent: no payment for inclusion; any hotel affiliate link is disclosed and does not affect placement.

Who writes and edits these guides

Love Kotor's guides are written, edited and maintained by The Love Kotor editorial team. Compiled and maintained by the Love Kotor editorial team from official tourism boards, operator timetables and public data. Guides are reviewed and updated regularly. We don't accept payment for inclusion.

Each page carries a visible byline and a last-updated date, so you always know who stands behind the advice and when it was last checked.

How we research and fact-check

We build each guide from official tourism boards, operator timetables and public data, cross-checked against primary and official sources. The small practical details — where the boats leave from, which lanes are car-free, how long the wall-walk takes — are drawn from published sources rather than guessed. For history, geography and anything verifiable, we check against primary and official sources and prefer evergreen framing over numbers that drift.

We separate the durable from the perishable. The shape of the bay, the story of Our Lady of the Rocks, the founding of St Tryphon's Cathedral — these are stable, so we state them plainly. Prices, opening hours, ferry timetables and cruise calls change with the season and the year, so we flag them to verify on the day and point to the official source. The famously disputed step count up to St John Fortress is given as an honest estimate from public counts, not a false precision.

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Bay of Kotor (Boka Kotorska) — The flooded river canyon of four linked basins, narrowest at the 340 m Verige strait.
Perast & Our Lady of the Rocks — The baroque captains' town along the bay, with boats out to the man-made island church of Our Lady of the Rocks.
St John Fortress (San Giovanni) — The summit of the city-walls climb, about 260 m above the bay, reached by roughly 1,350 stone steps.
St Tryphon Cathedral — The Romanesque cathedral consecrated in 1166 to Kotor's patron saint, anchoring St Tryphon Square.

Independence and corrections

Recommendations are editorial. We accept no payment for inclusion. We may earn a commission from clearly disclosed Booking.com availability links on hotel pages, at no extra cost to you; that relationship does not affect inclusion, order, or the honest drawbacks we publish. Photography is either our own, used under licence with attribution, or—on those hotel pages—hotlinked from Booking.com and credited there.

We review the guides and re-check the seasonal details regularly against their official sources, and re-date pages when we revise them. If you spot an error — a moved boat dock, a renamed restaurant, a detail that has changed — tell us and we'll fix it and note the update. Reader corrections are one of the main ways the guide stays accurate between updates.

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