About this site

Who writes it

El Nido Digital is written from El Nido, Palawan. That is the only genuine advantage it has over the enormous volume of El Nido content produced by people who have never been here — and it is why the rules on this site are strict about invention. A made-up number would trade away the one thing that cannot be outsourced.

How the data is collected

Prices are read from the public rate cards of named operators, ticket sellers and official sources, on a stated date, and stored with that date attached. Nothing is averaged, estimated, or carried over from a previous collection without being re-read. Blogs and AI-generated travel articles are not eligible as sources at any tier — a rule enforced by the build script rather than by good intentions.

The current collection is dated 26 August 2026. The method in full, including what it does not cover.

Corrections

Corrections are the most valuable thing this site can receive, especially from people who are in El Nido now. A fee that changed, a boat that stopped running, a landing charge nobody publishes — those close real gaps. Every page carries a list of what it has not verified; if you can close one, it goes in with the date it was checked and the fact that it was verified in person.

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How it pays for itself

Klook and GetYourGuide affiliate links, marked wherever they appear and gathered on one page. If you book through one, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That relationship runs the other way from what you might expect: operators appear in the Price Index and on the tour pages because they publish a rate card that can be cited, not because of any commercial arrangement, and no operator pays for placement or for a position in the Index. The Klook links are a separate, clearly labeled layer — live marketplace prices, not this site's own sourced figures — added because a passive site has to earn somehow, and this is the version of that which doesn't touch what a price says.

If that ever changes in a way that could look like it bought a listing, this paragraph changes first.

What this site used to be

elnidodigital.com previously offered web design services to businesses in El Nido. It no longer does, and enquiries about that are not being taken.