Sourced hotel freshness data
How fresh is the hotel you’re about to book?
Every hotel gets a Chrono Score (1–10) for freshness — built and last-renovation years, each linked to a cited source. The signal no booking site shows.
6,866+
hotels tracked
104
countries
1014
cities live
1–10
Chrono Score
Sample profile
The Meridian Palace
Dubai, UAE · 5★ · built 1962
Fresh
1962
Built
1987
Expansion
1998
Partial reno
2011
Facade reno
2023
Full renovation
Last renovation
2023 · 3 years since refit
✓ every year linked to a cited source
What Booking.com shows
★★★★
4-star hotel · “great location”
Tells you the category — not whether the room was last touched a decade ago.
What HotelChrono shows
Last renovation: 2008
Built 1987 · 18 years since refit
The one fact that decides how your room actually looks tonight.
The Chrono Score
A protected 1–10 freshness metric — pure freshness, never mixed with star ratings. Our goal: the industry standard.
Fresh
Renovated in the last 2 years
Ageing
Due for a refresh soon
Tired
Overdue for renovation
Three products, one living database
B2C Portal
For travellers
Search any hotel and see its full timeline, technical facts and sourced renovation history before you book.
B2B Service
Renovation Radar
Predict, don't report. Suppliers see which hotels are due for renovation — with estimated project value in euros.
Most valuable
The metric
Chrono Score
A transparent, sourced freshness score — with an embeddable, independently-verified badge hotels can show as proof of a recent renovation.
Free browser extension
See the renovation year before you book
Open any hotel on a booking site and the extension shows its Chrono Score and renovation history right there — or type a hotel name into the popup. No account, no tracking.
- Booking.com
- Google Hotels
- Expedia
- Hotels.com
- TripAdvisor
- Agoda
- Kayak
Renovation Radar · for FF&E suppliers & contractors
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Renovation Radar ranks hotels approaching their renovation cycle, estimates project value in euros, and overlays the regulatory and energy deadlines that force timing — so you reach the right property before the tender is public.
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✓ Hotels due for renovation, ranked
By years since last refit, age and segment
✓ Estimated project value
Prioritise the rooms-count and budget that fit you
✓ Regulatory & energy deadlines
Star-classification cycles + EPBD compliance dates
✓ Lead exports & alerts
CSV/API and email when a hotel enters its window
A living database
An AI pipeline reads official sources, links every date to a citation and keeps the data fresh — daily.
Our iron rule: no quote, no data. Every published year links to a source sentence — and where a renovation is only announced or under way, we say so rather than calling it fresh.
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From the founder
“The one fact that decides your stay — when the hotel was last renovated — is the one no booking site will show you. I built HotelChrono to track it for every hotel, link every date to its source, and never call a hotel ‘fresh’ without proof.”
6,866+
hotels tracked
110+
hotel brands
104
countries
100%
of published dates sourced
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Get a free lead sample →Frequently asked
What is HotelChrono?+
HotelChrono is a sourced, comparable database of when hotels were built and last renovated. It tracks 6,866+ hotels across 104 countries; those with enough sourced evidence get a Chrono Score (1–10) for freshness, and every published build or renovation year links to a cited source. Hotels without sufficient evidence stay unscored rather than guessed.
What is the Chrono Score?+
The Chrono Score is a 1–10 freshness metric based on how recently a hotel was built or renovated. It is deliberately kept separate from star ratings — a higher score means a fresher hotel, not a more luxurious one.
How is the renovation data verified?+
Our iron rule is “no quote, no data”: every build and renovation year links to the exact source sentence it came from. A renovation that is only announced or still in progress is never counted as “fresh”.
Is HotelChrono free to use?+
Yes — searching any hotel's timeline and Chrono Score is free. Paid tools include Renovation Radar (renovation-lead forecasting for FF&E suppliers), the verified hotelier badge, and a commercial data API.
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