Editorial Standards & Review Policy

The guides are written and maintained by Muxin, a Shanghai local and private guide. Recommendations draw on everyday local knowledge: getting around, eating, walking neighbourhoods, and helping visitors make sense of the city.

First-person observations are presented as such. I do not invent personal experiences or attribute recommendations to people who did not make them.

Guides combine local experience with checks against official websites, venue accounts, transport operators, and public notices where those sources are available. For practical details such as opening hours, ticket rules, booking procedures, and transport, the official source takes priority over older third-party listings.

Travel information changes constantly. A guide can be carefully checked and still go out of date because a venue changes its hours or a policy changes overnight. The date at the top of each guide shows when it was last updated, not a guarantee that every detail is permanently current.

I review guides regularly and revise them when I learn that something material has changed. I do not claim a daily newsroom process. If you spot outdated information, message me on WhatsApp with the page URL and what needs checking. Corrections are free and are not tied to a booking.

When a correction changes a practical recommendation, I update the page and its “last updated” date. If a claim cannot be verified, I remove it or make the uncertainty clear.

Editorial content is separate from my paid services. No hotel, restaurant, tour operator, or booking platform can buy a place in a guide, a positive mention, or a higher ranking.

Some guides link to booking platforms such as Booking.com, Klook, or GetYourGuide for convenience. Those are plain links: I do not receive an affiliate commission from them. If that ever changes, the disclosure will appear next to the link before it is used.

I do earn money from the private tours, custom itineraries, and consultations described on the services page. Those services are labelled clearly as paid services.

I only publish feedback that was genuinely written by a traveller I helped and that the traveller has agreed can be published. Reviews are never paid for. Quotes may be shortened for length or clarity without changing their meaning. A verified quote must be traceable to the original message, and the service and date must be accurate.

This site does not currently display traveller testimonials, star ratings, or an aggregate score. Individual reviews, if added later, would describe one person's experience and would not be a guarantee of what your trip will be like. I do not use third-party ratings or invented review markup in structured data.

English is the original language of the guides. Interface labels are available in 11 languages. Guides that have not yet been fully translated show a clear English fallback notice, and those fallback pages point search engines to the English original. A translation will only be presented as translated when a complete translation exists.

• It does not provide visa, legal, medical, or insurance advice.
• It does not guarantee third-party prices, availability, or opening hours.
• It does not publish paid reviews or undisclosed sponsorships.
• It does not use a chatbot to impersonate a human reply.

For entry rules and safety advice, use the official authorities for your nationality and destination. For a booking, the written confirmation we agree together is the definitive record.

Send corrections, source suggestions, or a question about this policy by WhatsApp message. Please include the page URL so I can check the right guide.