How these guides are written

Who writes it

Lana, the host of this house — a lifelong traveler, former travel agent, cruise specialist and working realtor. Every guide page carries a visible byline naming her and a “last updated” date, and the page’s structured data names the same person. The byline and the code never disagree about who wrote something.

Where the facts come from

Primary sources only. Every third-party fact on this site — opening hours, admission prices, park fees, festival dates, distances, temperatures — is taken from the operator’s own publication. That means:

• The International UFO Museum for its own hours and admission
• New Mexico State Parks for Bottomless Lakes and the state fee schedule
• The National Park Service for Carlsbad Caverns distances
• The US Fish & Wildlife Service for Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge
• The City of Roswell for Spring River Zoo
• NOAA climate normals for the temperature table
• The festival organizer for festival dates

Never a travel blog. Never a content aggregator. Never a figure recalled from memory. Property facts come from the Airbnb listing itself, which is the authoritative record for the house.

Everything perishable is dated

Hours, prices, fees and dates change without warning. Every page that states one carries a visible “checked on” line with the date and a link to the source, so you can see how fresh the figure is and confirm it yourself in one click. The facts on this site were last verified on 16 August 2026.

A guide that admits when it was last checked is worth more than one that pretends to be permanently current.

Omit rather than guess

This is the rule that does the most work, and it is the one most travel sites break. If an operator does not publish a figure, this site does not print one.

Real examples of it in action:

• Bottomless Lakes’ operating hours are not on the park’s own page, so no opening time appears on our page about it.
• Next year’s UFO Festival dates have not been announced by the organizer, so our festival page publishes no future date, only the 2026 dates and a link.
• The Roswell Museum’s hours and admission were not retrievable in a verifiable form, so the things-to-do page links out instead of printing them.
• Restaurant hours and ratings appear nowhere on the where-to-eat page, for the same reason.
• The name origin of Bottomless Lakes. There is a widely repeated story about cowboys and weighted ropes. The park does not publish it, so we do not repeat it as fact.

A wrong opening time sends you to a closed door. Not ranking for a search term costs us nothing by comparison.

What we will not write about the house

The same standard applies inward, and it is stricter than the marketing norm:

• No invented reviews or testimonials, ever. The listing has no guest reviews yet, so there is no testimonials section on this site, no star rating anywhere, and no rating markup in the page code.
• No amenity that is not on the listing. No pool, no hot tub, no jacuzzi, no dryer, no gym, no breakfast. The two “not included” items are printed on the amenities page alongside the rest.
• No invented policy. Where the listing publishes no minimum stay, pet fee, smoking rule or events rule, the site says so.
• No nightly rate. A published rate goes stale within days.
• No accessibility claims. Nothing has been formally measured — the honest statement is here.
• No street address or map pin. The exact location of an occupied rental is shared after booking.
• No bed type for bedroom three. Airbnb does not publish one, so neither do we.
• No badge or award that does not exist. No Superhost, no “guest favorite”, no license, no years in business.

No money changes hands over recommendations

There are no affiliate links and no paid placements anywhere on this site. Nobody pays to be recommended and nobody pays to be left out. We earn nothing if you visit the museum, the park or any restaurant named here.

The one commercial interest is stated openly on every page: there is a house, and we would like you to book it. That is why the guides say when something is not worth doing — sending you to a disappointing afternoon does not serve anyone, including us.

Update cadence

• Quarterly: attraction hours, fees and contact details re-checked against their sources; property facts re-checked against the live Airbnb listing, which is the record that drifts.
• Annually by March: the UFO Festival pages rewritten for the new year’s dates once the organizer publishes them.
• Twice yearly: the seasonal and best-time-to-visit content.
• Whenever anything changes: the page, its structured data, and the machine-readable summaries at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt are all updated together, so they cannot fall out of step.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it promptly and move the “last updated” date on the page. Corrections go through Airbnb messaging on the listing, the same as every other message — the contact page links straight to it.

Errors get corrected on the page itself rather than quietly deleted. If a mistake was material, the page will say what changed.