A guide to Cartagena, researched and kept up to date
Cartagena is a walled colonial city on the Caribbean. I write Cartagena Pointer as a practical guide to it, with the sources named.
A lot of Cartagena pages online are either a weekend blog that never got updated, or a booking site that wants the click and skips the context. I wanted a third thing: the fee, the taxi fare, and the neighbourhood, with the date I last checked them.
Lia is 28, half Colombian and half German. She loves travel, fitness and festivals, and she writes with German practicality and Colombian warmth. She checks Cartagena Pointer against official sources, recent traveller reviews and booking listings, and she says when a price or an hour could not be verified. The guides cover the real choices: Walled City or Getsemaní, which fees you pay at the island pier, and what the official airport taxi should cost. If I could not verify something, the page says so.
How we research
Checked sources
How I research: every guide is built from current, checked sources and updated when those sources change. Prices and hours move, so each page shows when it was last checked. Some links are affiliate links. If you book through them I may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to you.
Affiliate, not advertising
Some links earn a small commission when you book, at no extra cost to you. That never buys a better ranking.
Updated, not abandoned
Prices, openings and closures move fast. I re-check the guides and re-date them, instead of leaving a stale number up.
The editor
Lia
Lia is 28, half Colombian and half German. She loves travel, fitness and festivals, and she writes with German practicality and Colombian warmth. She checks Cartagena Pointer against official sources, recent traveller reviews and booking listings, and she says when a price or an hour could not be verified.