About Discover Santa Catalina

Discover Santa Catalina is an independent travel guide founded and edited by Guillem Gallego for travelers researching Santa Catalina, Coiba Island and Panama's wild Pacific coast.

The goal is to be useful before anything else: practical trip planning, careful local verification, clear disclaimers and honest guidance without fake reviews or invented schedules.

Guillem Gallego, founder and editor

Guillem sets the editorial direction, maintains the website and coordinates corrections and local verification. Articles carry his name so readers can identify who is responsible for the published guidance.

What we publish

We focus on Coiba planning, Santa Catalina hotels, surf, diving, snorkeling, restaurants, transport, itineraries and cautious investment research. The site is intentionally narrow: Santa Catalina first, broader Panama later.

How accuracy works

We separate stable planning advice from details that change quickly. We avoid presenting exact prices, bus times, restaurant hours and business rankings as current unless they have been checked recently and can be maintained.

Selection method

Accommodation, restaurant and tour research starts with official business sources and current booking or map platforms. A business is not described as verified until its identity, location, contact route and relevant traveler details have been checked. Paid relationships must be labeled and do not buy a positive editorial opinion.

Editorial position

This guide may earn revenue through affiliates, transparent advertising, relevant travel leads and future eco-stay announcements. That commercial layer must not override usefulness, verification or clear labeling.

If you spot an update, correction or missing detail, please contact us.