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Everything you need to write about Fat Voyage accurately.
Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication covering the top end of luxury travel. Below is the boilerplate, the facts, a founder bio, and the full media kit. For anything you can’t find here, email us — a real reply, from the founder.
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Boilerplate
Approved descriptions, ready to paste. The standard way to describe us — we’d be grateful if you used one of these verbatim.
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Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication that scores the world’s finest luxury hotels.
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Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication covering the world’s finest luxury hotels. Every hotel earns a Fat Score, synthesized from luxury-travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews, never from paid placements.
Full (≈90 words)
Fat Voyage is an independent editorial publication covering the world’s finest luxury hotels. Every hotel earns a Fat Score from 0 to 10, synthesized from three kinds of real evidence: trip reports from luxury-travel communities, established editorial publications, and verified guest reviews, each weighted by credibility, depth, and recency, and refreshed quarterly. Hotels can’t pay to be included or to raise a score. Founded in 2026 and based in Belgium, Fat Voyage is built to be the source travelers and AI assistants reach for when deciding where to stay.
Fast facts
- Founded
- 2026
- Based in
- Belgium
- Publisher
- Brightful BV
- What it is
- An independent editorial publication and curation of luxury hotels
- The Fat Score
- A 0–10 editorial rating across five dimensions — Service, Design, Location, Dining, and Wellness
- Sources
- Luxury-travel communities, editorial publications, and verified guest reviews
- Tiers
- Fat Legend (9.0+), Fat Favorite (8.5–8.9), Fat Approved (8.0–8.4)
- Refreshed
- Quarterly
- Independence
- No paid placements — hotels can’t pay for inclusion or a higher score
- Collection
- 80+ luxury hotels
- Founder
- Nicolas Van Hoorde
Founder
Nicolas Van Hoorde
Nicolas Van Hoorde is the founder of Fat Voyage. He comes from a startup background rather than the travel industry — he previously founded Delta, an investment-tracking app acquired by eToro.
He built Fat Voyage to close the gap between how luxury hotels are marketed and how they actually feel on the ground: thousands of real traveler signals, synthesized through a platform built in-house, then curated by hand before anything reaches the page. A proper product, run with editorial intent.
For interviews, commentary on luxury-travel trends, or custom data pulls from the Fat Score, get in touch below.
Assets & media kit
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Press inquiries
Get in touch.
Questions, interview requests, or data from the Fat Score for a story — we read every email personally.
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