Editorial policy

This page explains how an article on Review Nha Trang comes together - from picking the topic and gathering information to writing it, publishing it, and coming back a few months later to check it and fix what has changed.

If you're reading one of our articles and wondering where a number came from, why one restaurant made the list and another didn't, or why a piece of information carries a date next to it, most of the answers are here.

If something still isn't clear, just write to us at [email protected].

What we write about - and what we don't

Review Nha Trang covers Nha Trang, a beach city in Khanh Hoa Province on Vietnam's south-central coast, and the waters around it.

That includes Nha Trang Bay with Hon Mun, Hon Tam and Hon Mot; Doc Let beach to the north; and Bai Dai beach and the Cam Ranh Bay area to the south, near the airport.

The topics are the everyday ones: how to get out to the islands, which beaches are good for swimming, what to eat, what the weather is like month by month, how to get from Cam Ranh airport into town, and roughly what a trip costs.

There are also things we deliberately leave out.

We don't rate hotels room by room, because we haven't stayed in enough of them to compare fairly. We don't cover real estate news. We don't publish grand-opening PR just because a place has opened its doors.

For topics that need professional expertise, like health, legal questions or visa procedures, our articles point you to the official source or the relevant authority instead of pretending to be experts.

Review Nha Trang also doesn't sell tours, book rooms for you or work as a ticket agent.

When an article mentions what a tour or a service costs, the point is to give you a reference number to keep in mind when you ask for prices on the ground.

Picking topics: starting from the questions people actually ask

Most articles on the site start with a very specific pre-trip question.

• “Does it rain in Nha Trang in May?”
• “Is the four-island tour worth the money?”
• “Where do we eat tonight if the night market is packed?”

We gather questions like these from search trends and the search suggestions that pop up for Nha Trang, from travel communities on social media, from reader emails, and from the messages friends send us the week before they fly.

What people want to know also changes with the seasons.

In September, the questions turn to rain and typhoons. In March, everyone is asking about island trips. By summer, it's all about theme park ticket prices.

If a question already has an article that answers it, we update that article instead of writing a new one that differs by a few words.

Some topics get plenty of searches, and we still skip them.

A list of "50 Instagram spots in Nha Trang" is a good example, when it can't tell you what time to go, which route is easiest, or whether the place is worth the trip at all.

We would rather cover fewer places and make each one more useful.

Going there ourselves and compiling information are two different things

An article usually contains two kinds of information, and we try to keep them apart.

The first kind is first-hand experience.

These are things we went to, ate or saw for ourselves: how quiet Hon Chong still is at 6 a.m., what it costs to park a motorbike at the foot of the Po Nagar towers, what actually comes in a bowl of fish noodle soup at the stall we keep going back to.

The second kind is information compiled from other sources.

For example, a price that just changed, a new rule about where you can snorkel, or a restaurant we haven't visited ourselves yet.

Passages like these are written as reported information, with a date when it matters, and without phrases like "we found" or "in our experience."

If an entire article is mostly compiled - say, a comparison of tour prices or next year's events calendar - the opening says so clearly.

When our experience gets old

A visit from a few months ago and a visit from three years ago aren't worth the same.

So when a first-hand passage is more than a year old, we try to put the timing right in the text, like this:

• “When we went out to the islands in April 2025…”

That way you can decide for yourself how much of it still applies.

Where do the sources go?

At the end of every article there is a Sources section listing where we got ticket prices, opening hours, regulations, weather data, and anything else that isn't first-hand experience.

Each source comes with the date we checked it.

In the body of the article, an agency or outlet is only named in the sentence itself when the information is directly about regulations, safety, or a major change.

When choosing sources, we follow a fairly simple order of preference.

1. Official sources: the Khanh Hoa provincial government portal, Vietnam's weather service, legal documents, or announcements from the body that manages a site.
2. Major national newspapers and local papers.
3. The official website or channels of the attraction, museum, restaurant or business mentioned in the article.

For climate data, we may also use open data sources such as Open-Meteo. Openly licensed photos are handled separately, as described on our Image credits page.

We don't link to hotel booking sites, online tour sellers or review aggregators.

When one of them needs a mention, the article gives only the platform's name and the date we looked. Prices on those sites change constantly, and we don't want a travel guide to turn into a list of booking links.

Prices, opening hours and how often we review articles

Ticket prices, tour prices and opening hours in a tourist city change more often than most people expect, especially around Tet (the Lunar New Year) and during summer.

So we try to attach a date to any number that's likely to change, for example: as of September 2026.

If that date is about a year old by the time you read it, it's a good idea to double-check before you go.

We also don't review every article on the same schedule.

• Articles about costs and island tours, such as the Nha Trang travel guide and Nha Trang island hopping, get a monthly review first, because tour prices, motorbike rentals and transport costs move fairly quickly.
• Articles about places and food, such as things to do in Nha Trang and what to eat in Nha Trang, are usually reviewed every quarter to check ticket prices, opening hours, and whether a place is still running.
• Weather articles, such as the best time to visit Nha Trang, are reviewed at least once a year, ideally before the rainy and typhoon season.

There's one principle we try hard to keep:

• If we review an article and nothing has changed, the update date stays where it is.

The date at the top of an article only moves when the content itself changes in a meaningful way. Fixing a typo or replacing a broken link doesn't count as a content update.

Safety issues don't wait for the schedule

Typhoons, tropical depressions, bans on boats heading to the islands, a beach closed for the day, or an attraction that stops taking visitors - none of that can wait until the next scheduled review.

When there's an official announcement that directly affects an article, we fix that article as soon as we can.

An island that stops receiving tourists, a boat route that stops running, or a stretch of sea where access is restricted all fall into this group. When Khanh Hoa province stopped tours to Binh Ba island in June 2026, that was exactly this kind of change.

Partnerships, gifts and affiliate links

Now and then a restaurant, resort or tour company may invite us to try something, offer a free meal, or propose a paid collaboration.

If we say yes, a few fixed rules apply.

• Any article involving an invitation, a gift, sponsorship or affiliate links is labeled clearly at the very top.
• The label says specifically who invited us and what we were given, not just a vague "in partnership with."
• Partners don't get to approve the article before it goes up, can't edit our opinions, and can't ask us to remove the downsides we ran into.
• They can tell us if objective facts such as a price, an address or opening hours are wrong. If we check and they're right, we fix it.
• Affiliate links, if there are any, only go where they're genuinely useful to the reader. The article can still mention other options that earn us nothing.

If a hosted experience turns out badly, there are two possibilities:

We write about it exactly as it happened.
Or we don't write the article at all.

What we don't do is change our take just to keep a good relationship with whoever invited us. Decisions about what to write, what to praise and what to criticize belong to our editorial team.

Partnership proposals can go to [email protected]. We don't accept articles in exchange for links to tour sellers, booking sites or websites that have nothing to do with the content.

Advertising

If Review Nha Trang runs display ads, they will be kept separate from the editorial content and clearly marked as ads.

Advertisers have no say over our articles.

We don't publish advertising written to look like an independent review.

Photos in our articles

Our own photos always come first.

Not because every one of them is prettier, but because they show what you're likely to actually find when you get there.

When we don't have a suitable photo of our own yet, an article may use openly licensed images from sources such as Wikimedia Commons. The photographer, the license and the source are always credited on the photo itself, in the bottom-right corner.

AI-generated images are only used to illustrate general ideas.

Think of a spread of seafood, a suitcase by a window, or the feeling of an early morning by the sea. Images like these carry the caption "AI illustration."

We don't use AI images in place of real photos of a specific place in a way that could make readers think they were taken there. An article about Diep Son, for example, shouldn't use an AI picture and present it as the sandbar at Diep Son.

Details on how we credit photos, which licenses we use and how we handle removal requests are on the Image credits page.

When we get something wrong

It happens.

A price can change before our next review. A restaurant can move. A sentence in the English version might not quite say what we meant.

If you come across information that's wrong or out of date, email us at [email protected] or use the Contact page.

If you can, tell us which article, which paragraph and which piece of information needs a second look. A photo of a price board, an official notice or a link to the source makes it much easier to compare.

We check again before changing anything. If the content really does change, the update date at the top of the article changes with it.

For errors big enough to change an article's main conclusion - say, an article that still recommends a tour that has stopped running - we add a note so readers know which part was corrected.

Correction emails always get read before partnership emails.

Links in our articles

Internal links take you to related articles on Review Nha Trang.

External links are used more sparingly. They mostly point to official sources, government agencies, newspapers, open data, a business's own website, or Google Maps when you need to find a location. Most external links are nofollow; only a couple of the most important official sources in each article are left as regular links.

We don't sell links or trade them for search rankings. If there's ever a commercial or affiliate link, it's labeled according to the rules in the partnership section above.

The goal of a link is simple: help you check the information further or get to the thing you actually need next. Not to turn an article into a list of URLs.

Safety at sea

Quite a few of our articles are directly about the sea: swimming, boat trips, snorkeling, kayaking or heading out to the islands.

But no article can know the state of the water as well as the people standing on the beach at that moment.

The sea changes by the hour.
An article can only be updated from time to time.

That's why a few basic rules always matter more than advice on this site:

• follow the beach flags and the lifeguards' instructions;
• stay out of the water when there's a warning in place;
• swim where lifeguards are on duty whenever you can;
• wear a life jacket on boats and for any activity that requires one;
• keep an eye on port and official announcements when the weather turns bad.

From roughly September to December, Nha Trang tends to see more unsettled weather, so boat schedules and island tours can change at short notice.

If Review Nha Trang says one thing and the lifeguards or local authorities on the spot say another:

• Listen to the people in charge of safety on the spot.

Tools and AI

We do use software tools while putting articles together, including AI.

They may help catch typos, suggest wording, assist with translation, organize notes, or quickly find a document we need to check.

But a tool doesn't decide whether a restaurant is good or not.

A first-hand opinion is only written as first-hand experience when someone on our team has actually been there.

AI can make suggestions. The person who checks the article and hits publish is still one of us. And if an article is wrong, that responsibility is ours - not the software's.

Contact

If you'd like to share feedback, flag something that's out of date, ask about a specific article or discuss a partnership, write to [email protected] or visit the Contact page.

To find out who's behind the site, see the About page.

And if you're just starting to plan a trip, the Nha Trang travel guide is the easiest place to begin.