Frequently Asked Questions

Best by Locals is your trusted travel companion that helps you discover the best restaurants, activities, and experiences wherever your travels take you. We provide personalized recommendations and partner with local businesses to ensure authentic travel experiences.

Simply tell us your destination, travel dates, and preferences, and we'll create a personalized itinerary with restaurant recommendations, activities, and local experiences. Our platform uses local knowledge and partnerships to provide authentic suggestions.

Yes! Best by Locals is completely free for travelers. We partner with local businesses and may earn commissions from bookings, but this never affects our recommendations or costs you anything extra.

We're passionate about travel everywhere! While we started with coastal destinations, we now help travelers discover amazing experiences worldwide. Our coverage is constantly expanding based on user demand and local partnerships.

Our recommendations are based on your preferences, travel style, group size, budget, and interests. We also consider factors like location, season, and local events to provide the most relevant suggestions.

Absolutely! Your itinerary is fully customizable. You can add or remove activities, restaurants, and experiences at any time. We also welcome feedback to improve future recommendations.

We provide general information about businesses and activities. For real-time availability, reservations, and booking, we recommend contacting businesses directly or using their preferred booking platforms.

We regularly update our database with new businesses, menu changes, and seasonal information. However, we always recommend confirming details directly with businesses before visiting.

We offer a self-service business sign-up platform where you can create your listing, manage your profile, and choose your subscription plan. Our business portal allows you to control your presence on Best by Locals directly.

Our business sign-up platform will be available soon! You'll be able to create an account, set up your business profile, upload photos, manage your information, and select a subscription plan that works for you - all through our easy-to-use business portal.

Yes! If your business already has a listing on Best by Locals, you can adopt and claim it during signup. This allows you to take ownership and enhance the listing with your own photos, details, and updates while maintaining its existing presence and search history.

Yes, we offer various subscription plans for businesses that want to be featured on Best by Locals. Our paid listings ensure quality control and allow us to provide enhanced features like profile management, analytics, and premium placement options.

We partner with restaurants, activity providers, tour companies, entertainment venues, and other travel-related businesses that provide quality experiences for travelers. All businesses go through our sign-up process and meet our quality standards.

Our paid subscription model allows us to maintain high quality standards. We have a thorough vetting process during business sign-up, ongoing quality monitoring, user feedback systems, and regular reviews to ensure only the best businesses are featured.

We take privacy seriously and only collect information necessary to provide our services. We never sell personal data to third parties. Please see our Privacy Policy for complete details.

We only share general, non-identifying information with our partners to help improve services. Your specific travel plans and personal details remain private unless you choose to share them.

While we carefully vet our partners, we encourage travelers to use common sense and research businesses independently. We're not responsible for the services provided by third-party businesses.

We want to know! Please contact us with feedback about your experience. This helps us maintain quality standards and improve our recommendations for future travelers.