Our scouts watch sold-out campgrounds, visa bulletins and listing feeds around the clock. When the data they accumulate says something worth writing, it lands here — data journalism from instruments we run ourselves.
We watched 21 hard-to-book restaurants every 15 minutes for four weeks. 353 tables came back. Most appeared in a single hour of the day, and half were gone inside three and a half hours.
We watched 55 campgrounds every 15 minutes for four weeks. 783 sites came back, and half of them were gone in 45 minutes. A quarter never survived a single check.
Evergreen booking guides for the parks our scouts watch — release windows, the cancellation game, the honest odds.
Straight comparisons with the other ways people watch things — including when the other tool is the better pick.