It started as a Facebook group with a very specific obsession.

The group formed the way most good ones do — a handful of people comparing notes after trips, then a few hundred, then thousands. Over the years the same threads kept resurfacing: which Nassau neighborhoods are worth the premium, whether Georgetown or Emerald Bay suits a first Exuma trip, how to spot a listing that photographs better than it lives.

The answers were good — sharp, honest, hard-won. They just kept getting buried. So we started collecting them into proper guides: island by island, neighborhood by neighborhood, with the trade-offs stated plainly instead of glossed over.

That's all this site is. The community's collective knowledge, organized — and pointed at the rentals we'd genuinely send a friend toward.