About this guide

Each island guide covers how to get there, when the boats run, what the marine park charges, and every stay we have checked, ranked by hand. Each stay has its own page with a verdict, its terms and its catches.

The guide is written in English and in Malay. Facts such as fares, times and seasons are shared by both languages; the text is written for each language, not machine-translated.

One independent editor. No resort, hotel, boat operator or booking site owns, funds or reviews pulau.my before it is published. We do not accept free stays, gifts or payment for a listing.

Entries are researched, not written from personal stays. They are built from what operators, resorts and government bodies publish, from partner listings, and from patterns in recent guest reviews. When a source is weak, the page says so or leaves the fact out.

• Fares, timetables, conservation charges and seasons are checked against the operator, the resort, the Department of Fisheries or Sabah Parks.
• Every page says when its facts were last checked.
• A dash in a table means we have not checked that fact yet. We never fill a gap with a guess.
• Operator notices, such as a change of boat service, carry their dates and come off the page when they end.

The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts visits without cookies and without identifying you. Booking links pass through our own redirect, which records the page, the language, the time and a scrambled form of the referring address. It does not record who you are.