About Visit Biloxi and our editorial policy
Who we are
Visit Biloxi is an independent guide to the Mississippi Gulf Coast: casino resorts, places to eat, places to stay, and things to do in Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson counties.
Independent local guide, not affiliated with the City of Biloxi or Coastal Mississippi.
The site is written and kept up by visit-biloxi.com editors. Guides carry the byline "visit-biloxi.com editors" and link to this page. We do not name individual writers.
How picks are chosen
Every list on the site uses the same order. Paid listings come first, inside a block labeled "Sponsored", and they get no rank number. No business pays for a place on the site today, so every list is ranked by score alone.
The score blends a business's Google rating with its number of Google reviews. A business with few reviews is pulled toward the average rating of its category across the coast, so a high rating from a handful of reviews counts for less than the same rating from hundreds. Ratings shown on the site read "Rating from Google".
Guides use the same score and say which businesses they include and why.
How the data is checked
Business details, such as addresses, phone numbers, hours, ratings, and review counts, come from public Google listings collected on November 7, 2026.
Answers to plain questions, such as whether pets are allowed, were read from each business's own website on November 9, 2026. Each answer keeps the page it came from and the date it was checked. When a website does not say, the answer stays unknown.
VisitBiloxiBot is our crawler: it reads a few public pages of each listed business's own website to answer plain questions, such as whether pets are allowed, follows robots.txt, and waits at least 5 seconds between requests to a site.
How ads and affiliate links work
Paid placements sit in a block labeled "Sponsored". Payment never changes a rating or the order of the numbered list.
Affiliate links are marked as sponsored links and carry this note: "We may earn a commission if you book. It never changes our rankings."
Guides contain no paid placements. If a sponsor ever appears in a guide, it sits outside the numbered list in its own labeled block.