About & editorial
Our publisher
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Who stands behind the guide, how it pays for itself and the rules our writers follow.
Who runs this guide
spellforgedcup is published by Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, whose postal address is 711 Lucky Lane, Coarsegold, CA 93614, United States. Questions about anything on the site go to contact@spellforgedcup.com.
The guide has one job: describing ten resort hotels as places to stay. We are not a booking agent and we never handle payments.
Our own resort at number 1
Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, the publisher of spellforgedcup, owns Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino. That resort is listed at number 1 because of the ownership; the other nine are positioned by editorial judgement.
We think readers deserve to know that before they read a single row, which is why the first entry carries an “Our own resort” tag and a “Run by our publisher” ribbon. The placement is a commercial fact, not a finding.
How the site is funded
Revenue comes from referral commissions. Some outbound “Check availability” links may be tracked, so a hotel or a partner network can pay us when a visit ends in a reservation. The price you see is the same as if you had gone straight to the hotel. The link on row 1 leads to a property our publisher owns, so a stay there benefits the publisher directly.
No hotel can pay to join the list, move up it or approve our wording.
What a hotel needs to be listed
- A reason to stay beyond the casino: spa, pools, gardens, a landmark building or scenery nearby.
- Reachable: an airport within a practical drive and a route we can describe clearly.
- Published policies: an official site that explains room categories and house rules.
- Spread: together the ten should cover several continents and more than one style of trip.
How we research and write
Entries draw on each hotel's official website and on fixed facts that do not drift, such as a seafront location or a neighbouring landmark. Writers who know travel logistics check arrival routes against airport and rail information. When a detail is uncertain we leave it general rather than guess.
We publish no grades, guest opinions, endorsements or prices. Facilities that change by season are flagged for you to confirm.
What we leave out
Our site provides information exclusively about accommodation, resort leisure and travel amenities. We do not promote or facilitate participation in gambling. A casino appears only as the single neutral item “Casino on site” in a facilities list. We do not describe games and we do not link to gambling services.
Corrections
If something on a row is wrong or out of date, tell us through the contact form or at contact@spellforgedcup.com, naming the hotel and the line. We check the claim against the hotel's own pages, fix confirmed errors promptly and move the revision date shown at the bottom of that page forward. Any change to the order of the list is noted here.
Revised 14 October 2026