Affiliate Disclosure

What an affiliate link is

When we link to a booking service - a hotel platform, a car rental broker, a tour marketplace, an insurance provider - the link may carry our partner code. If you follow it and book something, the service pays us a commission. The price you pay stays exactly the same: the commission comes out of the service’s marketing budget, not your pocket.

These commissions are how the guide pays for itself. There are no paywalls and no sponsored rankings dressed up as advice - bookings made through our links are the project’s main income.

How you can tell

Every guide that contains affiliate links shows a short disclosure line above the text, before the first such link - so you know before you click, not after. Partner buttons and boxes are visibly marked, and affiliate links carry the rel="sponsored" attribute for search engines.

Why it doesn’t change our advice

Places and services get into the guide on merit: we compare the options, check facts against current sources, and recommend what we would book ourselves. If the honest answer is “you don’t need a tour here” or “take the free shuttle”, that’s what the guide says - commission or not.

We don’t accept payment for a positive write-up. Paid placements, where they exist, are labeled separately and are never mixed into editorial recommendations.

The legal part

This disclosure follows the US Federal Trade Commission guidance on endorsements and material connections (16 CFR Part 255): when a publisher can earn from the links it recommends, that connection must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously. If anything here is unclear, write to us - the address is below.