Affiliate Disclosure

What an affiliate link is

When we link to a booking service, such as a hotel platform, a tour marketplace or 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.

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. 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 official sources, and recommend what we would book ourselves. If the honest answer is “you don’t need a tour here”, that is what the guide says, commission or not.

We don’t accept payment for a positive write-up. Paid placements, where they exist, are labelled 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) and the UK advertising rules (the CAP Code), which ask for advertising to be obviously identifiable. Both ask for the same thing: when a publisher can earn from the links it recommends, that connection must be disclosed clearly and close to the recommendation. If anything here is unclear, write to us at the address below.