This is a guide to Bournemouth written for people who are staying here, not only choosing whether to come. A weekend, a week, a season. Every beach, attraction and neighbourhood has its own page with practical detail: how to get there, what it costs, when to go, rather than marketing copy.
Who publishes this
Flexiestays runs serviced apartments and aparthotels across Bournemouth, and Flexiestays publishes this guide.
That is a commercial interest and it is stated plainly wherever it is relevant rather than tucked into a footer. The apartment pages are marked as the operator writing about its own buildings. Everything else, the beaches, the restaurants, the pubs, the neighbourhoods, is editorial, and no venue has paid to be in it.
How the guide is made
The guide is organised the way you actually plan a trip: by what you want to do (things to do, food and drink, where to stay), by where you are (areas, towns and villages), and by when you are visiting (what's on, season by season). Pages are updated through the year as things change, and the newsroom covers what is happening in the town week to week.
The standards
Nothing is invented. No prices, opening hours, menus, awards or walking times appear unless they were checked. Where something could not be verified, the page says so and points you at the source instead of guessing.
Written and edited here. The guide grew out of The Bournemouth Guide, a sister publication run by the same team, and shares its research. Every page on this site has been rewritten and is edited for people staying with Flexiestays, and nothing is lifted from a venue's own website or from anyone else's guide.
Images are licensed properly. Location photography comes from Flexiestays' own library, from the sister publication's picture library, or from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences that permit commercial use. Every Commons photographer is credited at image credits, and there is a standing takedown offer with no argument attached.
Location data is open. Coordinates and venue positions come from OpenStreetMap, which is why several hundred places appear on the map that no guide would otherwise bother listing.
Ratings are real or absent. Where a guest score appears on a property page it is the genuine published aggregate for that property. None are estimated, rounded up or assembled from a handful of quotes.
Getting in touch
Corrections, complaints, image takedowns and venue updates all go through the contact page. If something on this site is wrong, we would rather know. Run a business in the guide? Claim your listing and keep it up to date yourself.
For anything about a booking or a stay, payments, cancellations, changing dates, the Flexiestays Help Centre covers it, and our local team is available around the clock on +44 7840 500157, WhatsApp +44 7886 309340 or enquiries@flexiestays.com.
This guide is published by Flexie Stays Ltd (company number 15208026), registered at 557 Charminster Road, Bournemouth, England BH8 9RF.