HolidayCheck.de Scraper — Hotel Reviews & Ratings (No Login)

Scrape hotel reviews from holidaycheck.de, Germany's largest hotel review and travel booking platform — reviewer text, rating, recommendation, traveler type, and the hotel's aggregate rating.

What is HolidayCheck?

HolidayCheck is the German-speaking market's dominant hotel review site — over 13 million hotel reviews, used the way Anglophone travelers use TripAdvisor. Hotels, tour operators, and OTAs across DACH treat a HolidayCheck score as a real signal, and travelers routinely check it before booking through TUI, Check24, or directly.

• Reputation monitoring — Track what German travelers actually say about your hotel or resort, review by review
• Competitive benchmarking — Compare your property's rating and recommendation rate against nearby hotels in the same destination
• Market research — Analyze sentiment, common complaints, and traveler-type patterns (families vs. couples vs. friends) across a destination
• Content and BI pipelines — Feed structured German-language review text into sentiment analysis or LLM summarization

What data does HolidayCheck Scraper extract?

• Review title and full text (German)
• HolidayCheck's per-review quality score (0-1 internal scale) and whether the reviewer would recommend the hotel
• Traveler type (family, couple, friends, ...), travel date, and review submission date
• Reviewer's first name, age group, and how many reviews they've written
• The hotel's aggregate rating (HolidayCheck's public 1-6 scale) and official star category
• Destination and country context

How to scrape HolidayCheck data

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	String (optional)	A German destination name (e.g. "Mallorca", "Gardasee", "Hurghada") or a direct HolidayCheck hotel review URL. Defaults to "Mallorca".
maxResults	Integer	Maximum reviews to return (default: 50)
brightDataApiKey	String (secret)	Bright Data Web Unlocker API key — required, see below
proxyConfiguration	Object	Not used by this actor — kept for input-schema compatibility

A Bright Data Web Unlocker API key is required. holidaycheck.de runs Akamai Bot Manager: plain requests (no proxy) get a hard HTTP 400 from Akamai on every real page, and a real headless browser on the same IP gets Akamai's block interstitial — verified directly during the build of this actor. Bright Data's Web Unlocker (Germany exit) returns the real page. Get a key at brightdata.com.

How destination matching works: HolidayCheck has no public free-text search API (checked the site's search-widget JS bundle and a handful of guessed REST paths — nothing usable). searchQuery is matched against a curated directory of ~27 known-good destinations harvested from the site's own navigation, covering major German cities plus popular holiday regions (Mallorca, Gardasee, Toskana, Sizilien, Türkische Riviera/Ägäis, Hurghada/Safaga, Zanzibar, and more). An unmatched query falls back to Mallorca. You can also pass a direct hotel review URL (https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-{slug}/{id}) to scrape one specific hotel instead of a whole destination — this bypasses matching entirely and works for any hotel on the site.

How it works internally: for a destination query, the actor fetches that destination's hotel-listing hub page, collects the hotel review-page links on it (up to 12 hotels), then paginates each hotel's review page (?p=1, ?p=2, ...) until it has enough reviews or that hotel runs out. Review data isn't in a clean JSON API — it's embedded in the page's server-rendered React hydration state, which the actor parses with a small custom extractor (not full JSON, since the blob contains undefined/new Date(...) literals that aren't valid JSON).

Output

Each result is one review:

Field	Type	Example
reviewId	String	"3715a17e-adbb-499a-a4d2-e7e2d77f32ac"
entityName	String	"allsun Hotel Eden Playa"
entityId	String	"af34b64c-bdf3-310a-8dcb-e376de5b4cdd"
entityUrl	String	Hotel review page URL
url	String	Exact paginated page URL this review came from
reviewTitle	String	"Eine top gepflegte traumhafte Hotelanlage"
reviewText	String	Full review body (German)
ratingScore	Number	1 (0-1 internal HolidayCheck score, not the public star display)
entityRating	Number	5.45 (hotel's aggregate rating, 1-6 scale)
entityRatingScale	String	"1-6"
entityStars	Integer	4
recommendation	Boolean	true
reviewerName	String	"Christa"
reviewerAgeGroup	String	"FROM_61_TO_65"
reviewerReviewCount	Integer	13
travelDate	String	"2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z"
entryDate	String	"2026-05-14T21:02:33.000Z"
traveledWith	String	"COUPLE"
destination	String	"Mallorca"
country	String	"Spanien"
language	String	"de"
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp

Example output

{
    "reviewId": "3715a17e-adbb-499a-a4d2-e7e2d77f32ac",
    "entityName": "allsun Hotel Eden Playa",
    "entityId": "af34b64c-bdf3-310a-8dcb-e376de5b4cdd",
    "entityUrl": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-allsun-hotel-eden-playa/af34b64c-bdf3-310a-8dcb-e376de5b4cdd",
    "url": "https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-allsun-hotel-eden-playa/af34b64c-bdf3-310a-8dcb-e376de5b4cdd",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-02T14:21:31.841Z",
    "reviewTitle": "Eine top gepflegte traumhafte Hotelanlage",
    "reviewText": "Wir haben diese traumhafte Hotelanlage im letzten Jahr bei einem Spaziergang entdeckt! Wir durften kurz reinschauen und waren fasziniert.",
    "ratingScore": 1,
    "entityRating": 5.454017803284389,
    "entityRatingScale": "1-6",
    "entityStars": 4,
    "recommendation": true,
    "reviewerName": "Christa",
    "reviewerAgeGroup": "FROM_61_TO_65",
    "reviewerReviewCount": 13,
    "travelDate": "2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "entryDate": "2026-05-14T21:02:33.000Z",
    "traveledWith": "COUPLE",
    "destination": "Mallorca",
    "country": "Spanien",
    "language": "de"
}

Cost estimate

Priced per result on Apify's Pay-Per-Event model (see the actor's pricing tab for current numbers). A 50-review run (the default) is a handful of Bright Data requests — one per destination hub page plus one per review page fetched (~10 reviews each) — so cost per run stays low even though every fetch goes through Bright Data's Web Unlocker.

Limitations

• searchQuery matches against a curated destination directory (~27 entries), not a live site search — see "How destination matching works" above. Pass a direct hotel review URL for any hotel not covered by a destination match.
• ratingScore is HolidayCheck's internal 0-1 quality/sentiment score per review, not identical to the public star rating shown on the site (that's a separate weighted aggregate HolidayCheck computes across many contribution categories, not exposed as a single per-review number in the page data).
• Review text and metadata are scraped from the public website and may change if HolidayCheck updates its page structure.
• Respect HolidayCheck's terms of service and use responsibly.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need my own Bright Data account? Yes. HolidayCheck blocks plain requests with Akamai Bot Manager, so a Bright Data Web Unlocker API key is required to run this actor.

Can I scrape a specific hotel instead of a whole destination? Yes — pass the hotel's HolidayCheck review URL (e.g. https://www.holidaycheck.de/hr/bewertungen-du-lac-et-du-parc-grand-resort/b977c6db-9977-3a0f-b0de-a77a0588cec0) as searchQuery.

Why don't all reviews for a destination get scraped? The actor caps discovery at 12 hotels per destination and 15 pages per hotel as a safety limit against runaway runs. Increase maxResults and re-run, or target a specific hotel URL directly, to go deeper on one property.

What does entityRating mean? HolidayCheck's public hotel score, on a 1-6 scale (higher is better) — the same number shown site-wide next to the hotel name.

Related scrapers

• TUI Scraper — Package holiday listings.
• GetYourGuide Scraper — Tours and activities.
• Checkatrade Scraper — UK service-provider reviews (different vertical, same Bright Data pattern).

Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly available review data from holidaycheck.de for legitimate use such as reputation monitoring and market research. Respect HolidayCheck's terms of service and applicable data-protection law when using the output.

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