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Affiliate Disclosure
This site earns commission when you book certain things through links here. You pay the same price either way. This page explains exactly how it works, who pays, and what it does and doesn’t affect.
The short version
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and make a booking, the company pays me a commission. Your price is identical — commission comes out of the operator’s margin, not added to your bill.
This is how the site is funded. There are no ads, no sponsored posts and no paid placements.
Who I have affiliate relationships with
| Company | What for | Where it appears |
|---|---|---|
| Civitatis | Guided tours and day trips | Destination and tour pages |
| GetYourGuide | Guided tours and tickets | Tour comparison tables |
| DiscoverCars | Car hire | The by car section |
| Rail booking partners | Train tickets | Transport pages |
What it doesn’t affect
Which options get recommended. Six of the eleven destination guides on this site conclude that you should take the train and not book a tour — including Toledo, which is the highest-volume tour destination. The Alcalá page says outright that I can’t construct an argument for the guided trip. Cuenca has no affiliate link at all because no operator runs a tour there, and the page says so.
The order things appear in. The tour comparison tables default to sorting by rating, not by commission, and you can re-sort them yourself.
Which figures get published. Prices, ratings and traveller numbers are the operators’ own, with the date they were checked. Where a figure couldn’t be verified, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
How you can tell
Every page that contains an affiliate link carries a visible disclosure box before the first link, not buried at the bottom. If you’ve read a page on this site and didn’t see one, either there were no affiliate links on it or I’ve made a mistake — and I’d like to know which.
Why disclose at all
Because it’s required for readers in the United States under the Federal Trade Commission’s endorsement guidelines, and because a recommendation you can’t audit isn’t worth much. If you know how the site earns money, you can weigh the advice accordingly — which is the point.
Last updated: 10 August 2026.