You're spending real money and weeks of your life to fly to a stranger. Here's exactly what we check, what we hold, and the one line we never cross.
A review can only be left by someone who booked through campskill and completed the stay, tied to the host's check-in. No open reviews, no drive-bys, nothing fake, because it's anchored to a real trip that really happened.
Payment sits safe from booking until you land and check in. If the room is nothing like the photos or the camp doesn't exist, you have real leverage and real money behind a refund.
If a listing slips, above all on safety or teaching, we flag it, help fix it, and delist it if it doesn't recover. We accept losing that revenue. That willingness is the product.
Some courses end in something signed; some are just two hard weeks. When there is one, the coach owns the judgment and we own the proof, this person, this course, this coach, verified. Never faked into a campskill score.
A camp can have world-class coaching and a terrible room. One number hides the exact tradeoff you're weighing, so we score them apart, and you weight what you care about.
New gyms can list fast after a light safety check, and the listing says plainly it isn't verified yet. The badge comes later, one of two honest ways:
Identity confirmed, craft credentials checked in the currency of the craft, safety scrutinised.
Enough verified completed-stay reviews at or above the floor, proof from actual trips.
Every other rule can be tuned. This one is the foundation. A host can respond to a review, they can never change, hide, or pay down its score. The whole platform rests on it.