About Gems.travel

Gems.travel covers places that exist, are worth the trip, and have almost nothing written about them. The test for a page here is the opposite of the usual one: if a place is already covered well everywhere, it does not need us.

Coverage follows the gap rather than the search volume. A place earns a page when the existing writing about it is thin, wrong, or entirely absent - which means the site grows in an order no keyword tool would suggest, and some obvious destinations are missing on purpose.

Facts come from primary sources. Opening hours, access and transport for places this obscure are checked against the operator, the municipality, or the site itself, because there is rarely a second source to fall back on. Anything numeric carries the date it was checked, because a price without a date is not information. Geographic data comes from GeoNames and OpenStreetMap, photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their individual Creative Commons licences, and time zone data from the IANA database.

We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so. We do not claim to have tested something we have not: plan details and prices that come from a provider rather than from our own checking are labelled as such. And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Email [email protected] with the page and what is inaccurate. Corrections to a specific fact are made on the page, and the update date on the page changes with them.