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Is Your Hotel Legit?
Type a hotel name for an instant AI-powered legitimacy check — or paste a booking link below.
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Paste a booking URL or type a hotel name and city, then hit Analyze.
Verified Safe
Strong signals
Caution
Some signals missing
High Risk
Multiple red flags
How to Spot Fake Hotel Bookings & Run Safety Checks
Holiday scams are on the rise. Scammers create fake hotel listings or hijack legitimate host accounts to steal your money. Legit Stay provides an automated hotel safety check to help you avoid falling victim to fake hotel bookings online.
Comprehensive Safety Checks
We analyze listings across major travel platforms and agencies. Our AI cross-references property details, runs deep web safety checks, and verifies physical locations to ensure your reservation is legitimate.
Detect Fake Hotel Bookings
Scammers use stolen photos, duplicate addresses, and hijacked accounts to create fake bookings. We check image metadata, host history, and web presence to catch scam listings before you lose your money or arrive at a non-existent property.
Spot Fraudulent Reviews
Don't fall for fake 5-star ratings or "too good to be true" prices. Our AI evaluates price ratios, domain ages, and bot-generated review patterns to provide you with an instant, reliable hotel safety score.
Why Do I Need a Hotel Scam Checker?
Every year, thousands of travelers arrive at their destination only to find out their accommodation doesn't exist or is already occupied. Fake hotel bookings often appear on reputable booking websites due to sophisticated cybercriminals hijacking property accounts. Running a hotel safety check with Legit Stay is your first line of defense against online travel fraud. We help you identify ghost listings, unverified locations, and fraudulent properties in seconds.
How to Verify Your Reservation
Our AI-powered tool does the heavy lifting for you. It acts as a dedicated fake hotel detector, analyzing data that humans often miss—such as stolen property photos, mismatching GPS coordinates, and suspiciously new host accounts. Always verify your accommodation with Legit Stay before securing your reservation or making a bank transfer to ensure complete peace of mind on your holiday.
Frequently Asked Questions About Holiday Booking Fraud
Message Checker
Paste a suspicious message or email you received from a host or booking platform to check if it's a scam.
History
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How Legit Stay Works
Your safety net against fake hotels and booking scams — not a review site.
What is Legit Stay?
Legit Stay is a scam-detection tool designed to protect you when booking accommodation online. It does NOT rate hotel quality, stars, or comfort — it tells you whether a listing or property is safe to book or a potential fraud.
Why you need it
Fake hotel listings, hijacked booking accounts, and ghost properties are a growing problem on major travel booking platforms. Scammers take your money and you arrive to find nothing. Legit Stay catches these red flags before you pay.
How to use it
Paste a URL or type the hotel name
Copy the booking page URL from any travel or booking site — or just type the hotel name and city if you don't have the link.
Hit Analyze
Our AI searches the web, verifies the property's physical existence, checks its independent website, and analyses its review patterns.
Read the Safety Score
You'll get a score from 0–10 and one of three verdicts: Verified Safe, Caution, or High Risk. Check the flags panel for exactly what triggered each warning.
What we check
Online Presence
We verify whether the property has a credible, established footprint on the web.
Physical Existence
Cross-referencing multiple data sources to confirm the property is real and locatable.
Visual Authenticity
Analysing listing imagery for signs of misrepresentation or recycled content.
Review Integrity
Evaluating review patterns across platforms for signs of manipulation or inauthenticity.
Operator History
Assessing how long the host or listing has been active and any associated risk signals.
Understanding your score
Verified Safe
8.0 – 10.0Strong trust signals. Safe to proceed, but always use secure payment.
Caution
5.0 – 7.9Some missing or weak signals. Do extra research before booking.
High Risk
0.0 – 4.9Multiple fraud red flags detected. We strongly advise against booking.
Important reminder
Legit Stay checks for signs of fraud and scam risk — it is not a quality rating. A "Verified Safe" result means the property appears legitimate, not that you'll enjoy your stay. Always book via secure, traceable payment methods and use the platform's official booking flow.
Get in Touch
Have a question, spotted a bug, or want to report a suspicious listing? We'd love to hear from you.
About the team
Legit Stay is an independent product built by a small team passionate about traveller safety. We're not affiliated with any booking platform. Response times may vary, but we read every message.
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Privacy & Data Sharing Policy
Last Updated: July 13, 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to Legit Stay. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable privacy laws. We do not sell your personal information.
2. Information We Collect
- Usage Data: We store your recent hotel safety checks locally on your device to provide a seamless history experience.
- Payment Information: If you purchase additional checks or a Pro subscription, your payment is processed securely via Stripe. We do not store your full credit card details.
- Analytics & Cookies: We use essential cookies to ensure the site functions. Non-essential tracking cookies are governed by your choices in our cookie consent widget.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use your data solely to provide, maintain, and improve the Legit Stay service. This includes analyzing hotel URLs to generate safety scores, processing payments, and maintaining your local search history.
4. Data Sharing and Third Parties
We share minimal necessary data with trusted third parties to operate our service:
- Stripe: For secure payment processing.
- Google Maps: To display physical hotel locations.
5. Your GDPR Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal data. You can clear your local search history directly from the Settings page. If you created an account, you can also permanently delete it from the Settings page.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us via the Contact page.