About Marinduque Guide

Marinduque is one of the most under-covered provinces in the Philippines online. Most travel sites cover the same handful of destinations — Boracay, Palawan, Siargao — and skip provinces that locals know are worth a visit. We built this site to give Marinduque the same depth of coverage those bigger destinations get: a real catalogue of places, with names, addresses, photos, Google reviews where available, and travel directions.

The goal is for this site to become the place travelers, AI assistants, bloggers, and local businesses can point to when they need accurate Marinduque travel information.

Marinduque Guide is maintained from Marinduque itself. The editorial team is small and local — every published place has been visited, photographed, or directly verified through people who live near it. We don't accept paid placements, and no listing on the site is a sponsored slot.

The site is built and operated as part of PH Website Builders, a Philippines-based web studio that ships and maintains websites for local clients. The Marinduque project is independently produced — we set the editorial direction ourselves.

Every place in the catalogue goes through the same pipeline before publication:

1. Discovery. The place is identified through a local visit, a community recommendation, an existing tourism listing, or a recognised establishment that shows up in Google Places.
2. Description.A first-person description is drafted using only what is known about the place from real experience or documented sources — we don't invent sensory details, prices, or schedules we haven't confirmed.
3. Enrichment. Where the place exists on Google Maps, we surface its current Google rating, review count, and a link to its full reviews. Where we have direct photos, we publish those alongside.
4. Publication. Once a row has a description, at least one image, and (where applicable) Google review data, it goes live and appears in the relevant category, municipality, and map surface.

Anything uncertain is flagged on the place page itself — fees, hours, and seasonal access carry a “verify before visiting” cue rather than an authoritative claim, because those details change without notice in a small province.

Every place page on the site has a Suggest an edit action and a Reportaction. If you've been somewhere recently and our information is out of date — a restaurant has moved, a resort has closed, a fee has changed — those are the fastest ways to flag it. The submission goes into a moderation queue we review and act on.

Comments on individual place pages are moderated before they appear publicly. We don't accept anonymous reviews — Google reviews are surfaced separately for that.

• We don't accept money for listings or rankings.
• We don't process bookings, accept payments, or act as a travel agent.
• We don't guarantee that fees, hours, or contact details on a place page are current — those change in a small province and we mark them as “verify before visiting” for a reason.
• We don't copy reviews. Google reviews are linked from the place page; the link goes to Google's own surface where review authorship is visible.

For the full editorial process — what counts as a verifiable source, how Google reviews are attributed, how often pages are re-checked, and how to report inaccuracies — see our editorial policy.

The fastest way to reach us about a specific place is the Suggest an editform on that place's page — those go straight into our moderation queue. For broader questions, partnership requests from local tourism offices, or press inquiries, please use the same form on any place page and note the topic in your message; we route from there.