Great idea!! I have been here 5 years and I already saw some cool places on your site I have never been to. 

I do agree that it is an interesting and needed initiative. Geneva guides in English are rare, let alone a guide that deviates from the standard touristic paths and tries to deliver some of the "feeling" of the city.

Although it seems that the site is still work in progress, some preliminary observations that I have:

- I loved the size and the quality of the photos. They really capture the atmosphere of the places suggested.

- I would slightly change the tone of the texts to be more neutral. In some cases, it looks like an advertisement of the place and not a recommendation from a guide.

- I think it would be helpful some more info like: is English spoken, price ranges, opening days/hours, etc.

Good luck with your project!

Hey Sean! Really good to hear :) 

Hello Panos,

Thanks for your in depth feedback.

It's still indeed a work in progress, we launched the website on the 29th september so it's really still fresh.

For the tone of the texts you're right, I'll forward this to Camille who's working on them.

I never tought of indicating the spoken language but that's a superb idea! I'll implement that.

For the price range, do you preffer something like "15-45 CHF" or a system with "$", "$$", "$$$" ?

As for the opening hours I need to see if I can pull the data from google maps because some places changes their opening hours and when we will start to have a lot of articles it will be really difficult to keep track of that.

Thanks again! Such feedback is invaluable to me!

Hi again Samuel,

On the price range, a "$", "$$", "$$$" system would make more sense I guess.

Opening hours may be too much indeed, but maybe you can put information on which day they are closed (if any).

And some additional thoughts:

Maybe you could mark the locations of the places suggested on the map for easier identification.

I was also thinking that when someone sees the name of the site/blog (visitgva) would expect to see also the landmark information (Jet d' Eaue, flower clock, etc.). So either you have to inclode those as well, or you may want to change the title to something more representative of what you try to do, for example "insidegva" or something like that.

Withouth any offence, the fact that none of you two is a native English speaker is noted in the texts of the site. There are some "cute" mistakes, that may however undermine the professional character of your endeavor. You may want to pass the texts through a native-English speaker for some editing.

Hi Panos,

I was thinking about the price range and it's difficult to find a system that is clear. For example at Birdie Food & Coffee the cheapest thing is maybe 4 CHF (coffee) and the highest 20 CHF (lunch). And in some other places there's even more difference between items.

What do you mean by marking the locations of the places suggested on the map? Having a map with only the places that have an article written?

We're working on the landmarks :)

As for the text you're right, we'll work with someone to correct the texts once we have more content.

Again, thank you for your feedback!

Glad if I helped. :)

We all know that Geneva is expensive... Maybe something like a comparison with the average prices would be more helpful:

$: prices cheaper than its category

$$: prices average for its category

$$$: prices more expensive than its category

$$$$: prices significantly more expensive than its category

For the map, it is exactly what I was thinking, having a map where the places places suggested are pinpointed (and maybe with a link to the respective article if you click on the spot in the map).

Hi Panos,

I'll think more in depth about that.

For the map we already have one on visitgva.com/map which work also on mobile and you can geolocate yourself. The ones that have articles have a link to the article, otherwise we link to the website of the place. There's also a "direction" link which open your google map (app or website) with directions to that place.