Tools we are building
Four utilities, specified and not yet built. Each answers a question the editorial pages already answer in prose, in a form a reader can push through faster. We are publishing the specifications while the data behind them is assembled, and every one of these pages says plainly at the top that the tool is not working yet. Until then the resort, atoll and comparison pages carry the same ground.
Seaplane planner
Pick origin and destination atoll; the planner returns transfer time, carrier, frequency, last-flight cutoff, and what to do if you arrive after the seaplane window closes.
Split-stay calculator
Pick two atolls, get the inter-resort transfer cost, transfer time, the seasonal call, and a paired-resort recommendation drawn from the comparison library.
Dive-site finder
Pick a month and a target species (manta, whale shark, hammerhead, reef shark); the finder returns the atoll-resort short list with visibility bands.
Rate calendar
Filter by month, resort tier, and villa type; the calendar surfaces the lowest published rate per window, with the source and the verified-on date.
These tools will be worth using because the underlying data is editor-curated rather than scraped, which is also why they are taking time. How we verify · Corrections log.