TheGambia.com exists because planning a trip to The Gambia is harder than it should be. The country is well served by charter operators and almost nobody else: search for practical information and you get brochure copy, a decade-old forum thread, or a page written by someone who has clearly never queued for the Barra ferry.
We set out to build the guide we wanted — one that says which tours are actually worth the money, which beach suits which kind of traveller, what the rainy season is really like, and what a taxi should cost.
What we do
- Research and write practical, opinionated guides to every part of The Gambia
- Check every tour we list against its live price, rating and recent reviews
- Publish the whole site in nine languages so it is useful beyond the English-speaking market
- Update seasonal information — prices, opening patterns, weather — at least twice a year
- Say plainly when something is not worth doing
How we research
Our tour rankings start from live GetYourGuide product data — published ratings, review counts, prices and itineraries — which we then weight for distinctiveness, value and the consistency of recent reviews. We read the recent reviews, not just the score, because a 4.8 built on six reviews from 2023 means something different from a 4.8 built on two hundred from this season.
Practical information — transport, money, health, entry rules — is drawn from official sources and cross-checked. Where something changes often, such as visa rules, we tell you to verify it with the relevant authority rather than pretending a web page is authoritative.
Where we are uncertain, we say so. Where a place has been over-hyped, we say that too.
How the site is funded
TheGambia.com is free to read and carries no display advertising. It is funded by affiliate commission: when you book a tour through one of our GetYourGuide links, or a hotel through one of our accommodation links, we receive a small commission from the operator. You pay exactly the same price — the commission comes out of the platform’s margin, not your booking.
That model only works if the recommendations are honest, so we do not accept payment for placement, we do not rank tours by commission rate, and we include tours we have reservations about with those reservations attached. Our full affiliate disclosure spells this out.
Corrections and contributions
Things change fast in a country this size — a hotel changes management, a ferry timetable shifts, a tour operator stops running. If you find something out of date or wrong, we genuinely want to hear about it.
Email [email protected] or use the contact page. Corrections from readers who have just been there are the single most valuable thing we receive.
