About us
About Attractions Biloxi
A working Gulf city on a peninsula between the Sound and the Back Bay, where an 1848 lighthouse stands in the middle of the highway, eight casinos line a man-made beach, the shrimp fleet still ties up at Point Cadet, and the clear water is twelve miles offshore on a national-seashore island.
Attractions Biloxi is an independent guide to Biloxi. We are a small editorial team, not a tourism board, not a booking agency and not the operator of anything you will read about here. We publish 26 places, 21 category guides and 10 long-form guides about one destination, and nothing else — which is the whole point.
Biloxi occupies a low peninsula with the Mississippi Sound on one side and the Back Bay on the other, and the thing to grasp before anything else is that it is a working city rather than a resort. Shrimp boats still tie up at the Small Craft Harbor. Keesler Air Force Base takes up a large piece of the west end, and the Air Force Reserve crews who fly into hurricanes for a living are based there. A cast-iron lighthouse first lit in 1848 stands in the median of US 90 with four lanes of traffic passing either side of it, which is either absurd or entirely logical depending on how long you have been on this coast. Very little here matches the picture people arrive with.
- 26Places covered
- 21Category guides
- 10Long-form guides
- 8news posts
Why this exists
What an aggregator cannot tell you
Search almost any destination and you get the same four kinds of page: a booking platform's auto-generated list, a content farm rewriting that list, a hotel chain selling you a room, and a forum thread from 2016. All four can tell you that Biloxi has beaches. None of them can tell you which car park fills first on a Saturday, which crossing is unpleasant on a bike, which much-recommended attraction is not worth the drive, or which month the water is actually warm enough to swim in.
That is the gap this site is built to fill. Everything here is written to be useful to someone with a specific decision to make — which beach, which morning, which boat, with which people — and we would rather publish a page that tells you not to bother than one that is enthusiastic about everything.
One destination, in depth
We do not cover the world. Every page on this domain is about Biloxi, which is why we can afford to check things that a hundred-destination site never could.
No page per listing
We deliberately do not generate a page for every bookable tour. It would be duplicate content, it would cannibalise our own guides, and it would put a pointless click between you and the booking. Tours appear on the pages that explain them.
Downsides in writing
Crowds, parking fees, seasonal closures, biting insects, the hour the traffic turns. A guide that only says nice things is an advert, and you can already tell the difference.
Free things get the same effort
Public beaches, town parks and free trails earn us nothing and are researched exactly as hard as the things that do. It is the simplest test of whether any of the rest of this is true.
How it is made
How this guide is researched
How we work
How this guide is researched
Every page on Attractions Biloxi starts from a primary source — the agency that runs the land, the operator that runs the boat, the ordinance that governs the parking — and not from another guide's summary of it. Where a fact is volatile, we date it and tell you to check. Where we could not confirm something, we say that instead of guessing, because a confident wrong answer about a closing time costs you an afternoon.
Disclosure
Our news is machine-written. We label it.
The news feed on Attractions Biloxi is generated by software from sources we have already verified, not typed by a reporter. Every factual claim in a generated article is traced back to a named source before it publishes, an editor can override or delete any of it, and each article says on its face how it was written. Our guides, category pages and attraction write-ups are a different thing entirely: those are written and edited by the people on our masthead.
The money
How Attractions Biloxi is paid
Affiliate disclosure. Attractions Biloxi makes money when you book a tour or activity through one of our links to Viator. The price you pay is identical either way, and a commission never buys a recommendation, a badge or a higher position on a page.
The masthead
Who writes it
Every guide and every article on Attractions Biloxi is signed. These are the bylines you will see.
Corinne Ladner
Senior Editor
Fourteen years reporting the Mississippi coast put Corinne in charge of this desk. Her beat is the handful of facts that ruin a trip when they are wrong: which city a thing actually sits in, whether the ferry is sailing this month, what a posted beach advisory restricts. Prices…
Rhett Vuong
Water & Fishing Editor
Rhett grew up around the Back Bay boatyards and covers everything here that floats: charters, the schooner sails, the shrimping runs and the crossing to Ship Island. He reads the Sound by wind and river stage rather than by the calendar, and he is blunt about water advisories…
Adeline Boudreaux
Culture & History Editor
Adeline writes the history pages, which on this coast means handling hard subjects carefully: the gaming industry that remade the city after 1990, the storm that took its waterfront in 2005, the Vietnamese-American fleet that rebuilt the seafood trade, and sites like Beauvoir…
Straight answers
What we are not
Not the operator, and not the merchant
We do not run tours, take bookings, hold your money or issue refunds. When you book, your contract is with the operator through our booking partner, and their terms are the ones that apply. If something goes wrong on a trip, they are who you need — though we would still like to hear about it.
Not a review site
We publish no user reviews and we have never written a fake one. Star ratings you see on a tour come from our booking partner's verified bookings and are labelled as theirs. Our own verdicts are signed by an editor and argued for in writing.
Not official, and not affiliated
We are not connected to any tourism authority, chamber of commerce, park service or local government in Biloxi. We read what they publish and we link to it; nobody approves a page before it goes out.
Not infallible
Prices move, operators sell up, a free lot starts charging. Every page carries a visible last-updated date so you can weigh it, and a correction takes about a minute to send.
Who we are and how we work
- Editorial standards
How we research, verify, label and correct what we publish.
- How we make money
The affiliate relationship, stated plainly.
- Our writers
The bylines on this site, and what each of them covers.
- Contact
Corrections, questions and press enquiries.
Prefer to start reading rather than reading about us? The Biloxi homepage is where most people begin, and the attractions directory has everything we cover in one filterable list.