TravelRecs
We don't send a writer. We read the room.
Most "things to do" content is written by someone who visited once, or never. TravelRecs is built the other way: we start from what the people who actually went — locals, repeat visitors, people mid-trip-report — already said in public on Reddit, in Facebook groups, and on other forums, and we only publish what several of them agree on independently.
Start from a real, recurring question
Every guide begins as a question we can show being asked repeatedly in public — not a keyword we picked because it converts.
Collect the public posts that answer it
We gather the discussions on that question across the relevant Reddit communities, Facebook groups, and forums — the same way any researcher would gather primary sources.
Keep the pattern, not the outlier
A single glowing or scathing comment doesn't make the guide. The same conclusion reached independently by multiple people does.
Write the synthesis, cite the sources
The published guide is our synthesis in our words. Where we reference a specific recurring point, we link back to the thread it came from.
Disclose what's commercial
Where a guide links to a bookable tour or ticket, that link is marked as an affiliate link, at the top of the article — not buried in a footer.
- We don't invent quotes, threads, or usernames.
- We don't create the groups or communities we cite — every conversation we reference is pre-existing and independently active.
- We don't post as if we were a local or a past visitor. We're an editorial team analyzing public conversation, and we say so.
- We don't remove or reword a source's meaning to make it fit our conclusion — if the threads disagree, the guide says they disagree.