hotelreviews.net — design placeholders

Five candidate site directions, each a static placeholder page so we can react to a concrete artifact before committing to a framework. The strategic context lives in docs/EXPLORATION.md.

Recommended · Archetype A

The Honest Synthesizer

Per-property pages that synthesize what guests actually praise and complain about, with source citations.

 Recommended overlay · Archetype B

Persona-First Guides

Editorial rankings organized around who the traveler is, not where they're going.

 Archetype C

Anti-Marketing Transparency Tool

Single-purpose: paste a hotel, get an unvarnished risk-flag report.

 Archetype D

Open Hotel Database

A Wikipedia-style structured catalog with permissively-licensed community reviews.

 Archetype E · not recommended

Vertical Metasearch

Yet another price comparator. Included for completeness so we can see what we're rejecting.