Editorial Policy

Who writes Love Tallinn

Love Tallinn is published by the Love Tallinn editorial team — not a single byline. We write as one independent editorial voice rather than attributing pages to invented personas. Tallinn is a small, walkable, deeply seasonal city, and the whole site is organized around that: a compact medieval core you explore on foot, distinct outer neighborhoods reached by a short tram ride, and a calendar that swings from dark, candlelit winters to white-night summers.

How we decide what goes on a page

We don't try to list everything. A place earns a guide when it genuinely improves a Tallinn day:

• Does it fit a real, walkable plan? We favor anchors you can string together on foot or with one tram hop — Old Town to Toompea, Kadriorg to Kumu, Telliskivi into Kalamaja.
• Does it survive the seasons? Tallinn reads completely differently in December than in July, so we note when a recommendation is season-dependent (open-air viewpoints, ferry day trips, terrace cafés) rather than pretending it's year-round.
• Is it durable enough to publish? We lead with the things that don't change weekly — atmosphere, layout, what a neighborhood is for — and treat prices and exact hours as details to verify, not as the headline.
• Does it earn the reader's time? One strong viewpoint beats five mediocre ones. We'd rather send you to Kohtuotsa at golden hour than pad a list.

Facts, hours and prices

Most of the site is evergreen on purpose. Where a page does state a concrete figure — a museum ticket, a ferry crossing, a festival window — we research it against the official source and add a “verify before you go” note, because Estonian venues commonly run seasonal and weekday/weekend pricing tiers. The figures shown reflect research in mid-2026. See the Sources page for the official Tallinn and Estonian pages we check against.

Freshness

Each guide carries a per-page review date in its structured data, set when we last checked the page in this content pass rather than bumped automatically by a file edit. Time-sensitive pages (events, ferries, tickets, the month-by-month guides) get re-checked more often than evergreen planning pages.

Updates and corrections

If a detail looks stale or a link is dead, send us the page URL and what's changed and we'll fix it. We'd genuinely rather hear it from a reader than ship a wrong opening time.

Events

Event dates and venues are the most volatile thing on the site. When a date isn't fully confirmed for the current year, we say so and point you to the festival's official page for the latest.