How we choose homes

Where the homes come from

We read the public listings of rental companies whose terms don’t forbid it. We don’t use sites whose terms forbid reading their listings, so homes on Airbnb or Vrbo aren’t here.

In our latest read, on 31 Oct 2026, we went through 1,377 listings and kept 754 homes. The site shows 608 of them today.

Which homes we keep

A listing stays when it’s a whole house of the kind this site covers:

• The company calls it a villa or a house. Condos, apartments, townhouses, hotel suites and resort units are left out.
• It has three bedrooms or more.
• Its lowest published rate is $750 a night or more, before fees and taxes. A home with no published rate stays in.
• Its map position falls inside the destination.

When the same property appears more than once, in several sizes or with two companies, we keep one entry. It’s the listing from a company with an affiliate program, in the largest size offered.

Which homes we show

A home gets a card and a page when it also has:

• Its own name. A name that’s only an area and a number, such as a unit in a gated estate, doesn’t count.
• Its area, bedrooms, baths and number of guests.
• At least five photos, from a company that allows us to use them.
• At least one feature for its card, such as a private pool, a hot tub, a dock or staff on site.
• A company with an affiliate program, which is how the site is paid.

That last point means some good homes aren’t on Gladori. A destination opens once it has six homes that pass.

What we check and what we don’t

We check:

• The company that lists the home, and the link to its page.
• Size and capacity, as the listing states them.
• Rates, fees and taxes, with the date we read them.
• Road times and distances, calculated from OpenStreetMap data. When the company doesn’t give the house’s position, times are for its area, and the page says so.

We don’t visit or inspect the homes. We can’t confirm their condition, whether the photos are current or what the staff do each day. The company you book with is responsible for the house and your stay.

How prices are shown

• A price appears only when the company publishes its fees and taxes, or quotes a real stay. It’s the total for the nights shown, with mandatory fees and taxes included. Optional services, such as a chef, are extra.
• A “from” price uses the cheapest season that still has dates for its minimum stay, at a rate read in the seven days before the page was updated.
• A quote names the stay it was for and the date it was checked.
• Without those, the page shows no number and links to the company’s price.
• Cards show US dollars. When a company charges in euros, its house page shows the euro total and the dollar figure at the rate shown, with its source and date.

What Recommended means

Recommended is the default order. Inside each destination, every home gets a score out of 100, built from facts on its listing:

• Price level within its destination, up to 25 points. Pricier homes score higher, since this site is about high-end stays. A home with no published price gets 12.5.
• Water, up to 20: 20 if the listing says beachfront, 10 if it’s near the water, 5 for a sea view.
• Pool, up to 15: 10 for a private pool, 5 for an infinity pool.
• Size, up to 10, by bedrooms, counting up to eight.
• Staff, up to 10: 10 with staff on site, a chef or a butler, and 5 with housekeeping.
• Guest reviews, up to 10: 10 for an average of 4.5 or higher from three reviews or more, 5 for that average from fewer reviews.
• Photos, up to 5: 5 with 20 photos or more, 3 with eight or more.
• A name of its own, 5.

Commission plays no part in the score. You can sort by price or by bedrooms instead.

What the labels mean

• Beachfront: our own check of the map and the listing shows sand at the end of the garden, with no public road between the house and the beach. Until we’ve made that check, the card says “Listed as beachfront”, which is the company’s word.
• Private pool: the listing names a private pool. A pool it calls shared doesn’t count.
• Staffed: the listing names staff on site, a butler or a housekeeper. Ask the company which days and hours they work.
• Private chef: the listing names a chef. That doesn’t mean the chef is included in the price.
• Large groups: six bedrooms or more.
• Dock: the listing names a dock.
• Sponsored: a company paid for that spot. No listing carries it as of the date above.

Guest ratings

We show a rating only when its source allows it, with the source’s name and the number of reviews. Ratings from different sources are never averaged, and we never write reviews ourselves.

Keeping pages current

Rates change often. A page shows a price only if we read it in the seven days before the page was last updated, and each house page shows the date its price was checked. If you spot something out of date, tell us.