Quien lo goza: a Barranquilla guide that plans your day

A bilingual travel guide to Barranquilla with an interactive planner, built to turn visitors into guests.

Type
Website and planner
Status
Live
Year
2026
Stack
WordPress, custom theme, Hostinger
Languages
Spanish and English
Editing
From wp-admin
In short
  • A guide to what to do in Barranquilla, chosen by one person who hosts travelers there.
  • An interactive planner filters places so a visitor leaves with a plan, not a list.
  • Spanish by default, English for visitors from elsewhere. Local words are never translated, only explained.

Why I built it

I have hosted travelers in Barranquilla for five years, and the same questions came back every time. Where do I eat, what is worth my time, how do I get there. A guide answers them once.

The only revenue is bookings for my own apartment. Places do not pay to appear; I choose every one of them. That keeps the guide honest.

How it works

Quien lo goza home page: green hero reading “Vive y goza Barranquilla” with a search planner and ready-made 1, 3 and 5 day plans
The home page: one search, trending plans and ready-made itineraries for 1, 3 or 5 days.

Pages for static topics, like Carnival or the Gran Malecón, are editable blocks in WordPress. The dynamic parts, the planner and the place cards, live in a custom theme in code.

The site detects the visitor’s country. Spanish speakers get Spanish, everyone else gets English. In English I write “Costeño”, never “Coastal”, and keep dishes like arepa de huevo untranslated with a short explanation.

Go and see it

Plan a day in Barranquilla

Pick what you feel like eating, where you want to be at sunset or how many days you have, and the planner builds a day around it. It works in Spanish and English.

Open quienlogoza.com ↗

What I learned

Content I can edit without a developer matters more than a perfect theme. I picked the hybrid path: blocks for pages that rarely change, code for the parts that need logic, and I review the content every two weeks.

Miguel BA

Founding Product Designer in Barranquilla. I design and build with early-stage founders. More about me →

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Miguel BA
Founding Product Designer

I rebuilt my own site in WordPress and wrote down what I would do differently.

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