Corrections

What was wrong

The homepage, every resort page and our own data-collection brief stated that Maldives rates exclude 16% GST and a $6 per person per night green tax. Both figures were out of date. TGST rose to 17% on 1 July 2025 under the seventh amendment to the Goods and Services Tax Act, and the resort green tax doubled to $12 from 1 January 2025. The homepage worked an example off the old numbers, so the single most prominent figure on the site — what an advertised rate really costs — was wrong and understated.

What changed

Corrected to 17% TGST and $12 per person per night, with the rates, their effective dates and their sources held in one place (lib/taxes.ts) instead of retyped into page copy. The worked example now also accounts for service charge being taxable, which the old one ignored: a $499 rate is about $666 a night for two, not $640. Found while trying to source resort pricing.

What was wrong

We listed Velaa Private Island as being on Fonimagoodhoo. Fonimagoodhoo is a different island, in Baa Atoll, occupied by another resort. Velaa is in Noonu Atoll.

What changed

Corrected to Fushivelaavaru, the island recorded against Velaa in the Ministry of Tourism register. Found by cross-checking all 15 researched resorts against the government register rather than by anyone reporting it.

What was wrong

The original dataset carried claims that could not be traced to any source: 30 "upgrade strategies" with invented success rates and dollar figures, 17 named signature dishes, 15 dining scores that simply tracked price tier, and house reef grades asserted without evidence. Ten booking tips claimed specific discount percentages. Two restaurants were credited with Michelin pedigree, though Michelin publishes no Maldives guide. Several descriptions asserted a resort had the best reef in its atoll, or in the country.

What changed

All of it removed rather than softened. House reef grades reset to unknown across every resort. Pros and cons rebuilt to claims derivable from structured data on the same record. Taglines rewritten to state villa counts, transfer times and atolls. The schema now records sourcing and check dates, and the absence of a date is shown rather than hidden.

What was wrong

Every resort page displayed a photograph presented as that specific property. The images were randomly generated stock photos from a placeholder service and bore no relation to the resorts they illustrated.

What changed

The image pipeline was deleted. Pages now state that there is no photography and why, rather than showing an arbitrary beach captioned with a resort name.

What was wrong

Both resorts show a minimum age of 8 and 12 respectively, but their quick facts read "Kids welcome", because the interface only checked the adults-only flag. A family with a five-year-old could have read that as an invitation.

What changed

Both the card and detail views now show the minimum age wherever one exists.