About EZ Paradise.
A travel guide written after the trip, not before it. Where to sleep, when to go, what your money is buying. Slower to publish than most sites. That is the whole idea.
The questions we get asked.
Answered the way we would answer them across a table. Nothing here is a claim we would not repeat to your face.
Ask us something else and we will answer that too.
So why does this site exist?
Twenty open tabs. A forum thread from 2019. Three articles describing the same beach in the same order, none of which tell you which side of the island to sleep on.
The information exists. It is scattered, it is dated, and most of it was written by someone who never went. So we started writing the page we kept looking for, one destination at a time.
How does a guide actually get written?
A destination earns its page by being visited. Time on the ground first: which areas suit which kind of trip, when the weather turns, where the value sits. We talk to people who live there and note what the guidebooks skip.
Then we write what we found, including the parts that did not work. Then we recommend only what we would point a friend at. Draft, leave it a while, cut.
Who pays for it, and does that bend the advice?
Right now, nobody. No ads, no sponsors, no commission on anything you book. It comes out of our own pocket, which is the plain reason there are a handful of destinations here and not a thousand.
That will change. When it does, it gets said on the page you are reading, not buried in a footer. What will not change: no sponsored trips. No paid placements. No editorial relationships with hotels or tourism boards. A place gets recommended because it was good, not because someone asked.
Why are there so few destinations?
Because a page goes up when it is finished, not when the calendar says so. We would rather run a short list you can plan a whole trip from than a long one you have to double-check somewhere else.
What will this actually save me?
Most trips cost less than the first quote you are given. A good part of what travelers pay is the fee for handing the arranging of hotels, flights and tours to somebody else. That fee is money that could have been part of the trip.
A better room. An extra island day. A dinner by the sea you are still talking about a year later.
Will you tell me when somewhere is not worth it?
Yes. Skip this one, it is a trap. The food is average and the view earns it anyway. A guide with no opinion is a brochure.
The EZ Paradise team
Where to start.
The guides and the blog do different jobs. Pick the one that matches the question you came in with.
Destination guides, area by area
Where to base yourself and what each area costs you in trade. Getting there, getting around, when to go, what to eat, what to walk past.
Browse destinationsThe blog, for everything else
Timing, costs, planning a first solo trip, what to do when the plan falls apart on day three. Written the same way the guides are.
Read the blogIt is yours too.
Notes, corrections, a ferry schedule that moved last month, the place we should cover next. The contact form reaches someone who reads it, not a queue.