Guides

Questions that run across several islands at once, worked through with the numbers we hold rather than impressions. Each one says where its figures come from.

• How small is a local island, really

  From 198 residents to 13,759 — the islands share a label and almost nothing else. What the population figure tells you before you book.

  3 min read · checked 1 Aug 2026

• What a guesthouse rating is worth

  63% of rated guesthouses sit at 4.5 or above, so the score alone decides nothing. What 483 of them reveal about reading a rating properly.

  3 min read · checked 1 Aug 2026