How we price: every figure on this site is all-in

The promise, in one paragraph

Every price on this site is all-in as published at its source, stated in the currency it is actually charged in, and carries the date we read it and where. If a figure has parts — taxes, fees, per-person versus per-vehicle, what a package includes — the basis is stated beside the figure, not discovered later. When we cannot meet that bar for a number, we do not publish the number.

What “all-in” means here

• The figure is the figure. No sub-line fees revealed after the headline, no “+taxes and charges” appearing at the last step. Where a source itself adds fees later, we say so beside the price rather than reproducing the trick.
• The basis is printed. Per person or per vehicle; per course or per hour; what a package includes and excludes; party size and season where they change the number. Above every price table sits a basis line saying what every figure below it includes.
• Currency first, conversions labelled. A charge levied in US dollars is published in US dollars. If we ever print a conversion, it carries the exchange rate and the date of that rate — a conversion is arithmetic, not a price.
• India-side mechanics are named, never buried. Where TCS or the mandatory ZIC insurance affects what a trip really costs, it appears as its own named line with its own source — never silently folded in, never silently omitted.

Observed, never predicted

We publish observations: figures we actually read, each dated and sourced. We do not publish forecasts, “prices expected to rise”, or booking-urgency arithmetic — a prediction has no source a reader can check, and this site publishes no figure a reader cannot check.

When we re-check a figure, the superseded reading is kept in our fact ledger, dated — history accumulates and is never overwritten, and wherever a figure has history the page shows every recorded point. (Publishing the ledger itself as a browsable page is on our roadmap; until then, every figure carries its source and date where you read it.) The range is the lowest and highest we have recorded — it is not a market estimate.

What we refuse to do with prices

• No fabricated reference prices. No strikethroughs, no “was/now”, no “save 30%” — unless both figures are dated, sourced readings in our ledger, which so far none have been.
• No scarcity or countdown theatre. No “only 2 left”, no ticking clocks. Even where such claims are true somewhere, a reader cannot check them here.
• No disclaimed numbers. If a source says its own figures are “indicative” or “approximate and subject to change”, we treat them as not-prices and do not restate them. A number we print is a number someone stood behind.
• No prices behind an account, a tier, or a members’ club. Verified facts are never gated. The concierge monetises service; the facts stay public.

When a figure goes stale

Facts age. Every figure carries its read date in the sentence, so staleness is never hidden — and figures shown with their price history wear a visible re-check flag once their newest reading passes 90 days, applied when the page is rebuilt. A stale date on this site looks stale on purpose.

Hold us to it

If a figure here does not match what a source shows or what you were quoted, tell us — that is the most useful message you can send. Corrections are published, dated, in the open: the corrections log.

The numbers above are counted from our fact ledger at publish time. Every underlying figure carries its source and read date on the page where it appears.