A travel guide is only as useful as the trust a reader can place in it, so it's worth being explicit about how Totally Maldives actually gets written, rather than just asserting accuracy.
Stable facts vs. moving targets
Geography, history and cultural background don't change month to month, and are researched and written with that in mind. Figures that genuinely do move — tax rates, visa terms, specific policies — are handled differently: each of those pages carries a "last verified" date, and we point toward the original official source (MIRA, Maldives Immigration) rather than asking you to simply trust our restating of it.
What we do when we're not confident
Several of our newer atoll and resort pages are deliberately short and flagged as "early-stage" rather than padded out with invented specifics — we'd rather publish a shorter, honest page than a longer one containing details we can't actually stand behind. Look for the callout boxes marking this explicitly.
No paid placement
Resort and guesthouse entries in our resorts directory are written the same way regardless of any commercial relationship — see our about us page for more on this.
Corrections
If something's wrong or has changed, that's exactly the kind of update we want to make quickly — see our contact page for how to flag it.