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For visitors and venue owners: how ordering works and how paid promotion affects visibility. Updated 22 October 2026.
We apply your choices, such as category and area, before ranking this list. Promotion cannot bypass these filters. Results can change with your search, available data and the time you browse.
Recommended considers Where’s Next ratings and valid rating counts, value signals such as offers and price category, current opening hours, listing completeness, distance when you share your location, and editorial or promotional placement. Recommended is therefore not an advertising-neutral order or a pure star-rating order.
Near Me uses available distance; coordinates may be approximate. Highest Rated uses Where’s Next ratings with an adjustment for rating counts to reduce small-sample effects. Best Value uses offers, value-related categories and price category; it is not a promise of the lowest price. Venues without the necessary sorting data appear later rather than receiving invented data.
Promoted means payment, barter or material compensation influenced visibility: it is advertising. Featured means an independent editorial selection where compensation did not determine placement. Neither label guarantees quality, safety or licensing. A special-placement section can appear ahead of the sorted results.
The list selects at most 3 eligible venues ahead of other results. In Near Me, a known distance within 5 km is required. In Highest Rated, a published Where’s Next rating of at least 4.3 is required. In Best Value, an offer or value-related category is required. Payment does not guarantee a fixed position, and a more expensive plan does not automatically mean first place.
A subscription does not change the star calculation, buy positive ratings or buy removal of a valid negative rating. Google ratings remain separate and are not combined into the Where’s Next rating. Starting a rating through QR or NFC does not by itself prove physical attendance or a purchase.
Aggregate venue reports describe activity such as page views and directions, phone or WhatsApp link clicks. A click is not proof of a completed call, visit, booking or sale. These reports do not give a venue access to visitor identities or individual browsing histories. The privacy page separately explains optional analytics and its controls.
Use the contact page to request a correction or raise a concern about an advertising label or rating. Promotion does not exempt a venue from publication rules, accurate information or applicable law.