How we choose places
Every place on santa-teresa.com is checked against its official website and recent listings before we write about it, and rechecked at least once a year. We don't accept payment to be listed or ranked, and we don't publish prices.
How a place gets on the site
We write about places that a friend who knows the area would actually send you to: hotels, restaurants, cafes, surf schools, yoga studios, tour operators, beaches and parks. Before a place goes up, we check:
- That it's open now, using its official website or social pages and recent reviews on major booking and review sites.
- The basics, such as where it is, what it offers and how to contact it, from the place's own information.
- Public facts about parks, roads, ferries and flights, from official sources such as Costa Rica's park service, the tourism board, airlines and ferry operators.
If we can't confirm a place is open, we leave it out.
What we don't do
- We don't accept payment to be listed, ranked or reviewed.
- We don't publish prices, because they change often. Check with the place directly.
- We don't invent reviews, ratings or awards.
- We don't copy other guides or businesses' own descriptions. Everything is written in our own words.
Keeping things current
Each page shows the date we last checked it. Businesses in a small beach town open, move and close often, so we recheck every page at least once a year and whenever a reader tells us something has changed. When a place closes, we take its page down and send its address to the closest related section.
Partner content
If an article is ever produced with a partner, it'll be marked "Partner Content" at the top.