Who edits Best of Thailand

I'm Cesar Rodriguez. I edit bestofthailand.org, sign its guides and articles, and answer for what they say. The site belongs to no travel-content network and takes no bookings. The one paid placement is the Featured slot, and every card that has it says “Featured”.

When a page says a rule was checked on a date, that is the day the figure was read against its source, and the date changes only when someone checks it again.

How each kind of data is checked

Entry and visa rules: read against the Royal Gazette notices, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and TAT, with every change logged by date on the visa page (last checked 24 September 2026).
Medication: 77 medicines looked up one by one in the Thai FDA's traveller permit portal (last checked 7 September 2026). The list names the ones we could not confirm.
Rail stations and distances: 185 stations checked against OpenStreetMap and Wikidata. Every “near this station” figure is computed from coordinates, not from a district label.
Elephant camps: 16 venues, with the two accreditation bodies kept apart because they disagree.
Places: ratings, opening hours and popular times come from Google Maps and say so on the page. A business gets the Verified badge only after it confirms its details with us; the badge is never sold.

What a machine writes

The short description on a place page is either imported with the listing or written by a language model from the data we hold for that place. The “What reviewers say” summaries are written the same way from Google reviews, and each carries a line saying how many reviews it is based on. Guides, rules and reference tables are checked by hand against the sources they cite.

If you spot a mistake

A rule that changed, a place that closed, a price that moved: write to rasekrodriguez9@gmail.com. When a published figure turns out wrong, the page says what it said before and where the correction comes from.

Where to find me

I also edit santiago.es, a guide to Santiago de Compostela and the Camino.