Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. If you book or buy through one, I earn a small commission, and you pay exactly what you would have paid anyway.
What an affiliate link actually is
It is an ordinary link with a tag on the end that tells the company you arrived from here. If you go on to book something, they pay me a share of their own margin. Your price does not change. You are not charged for using the link, and you are not charged more for having used it.
Who I work with
- GetYourGuide, Viator and Civitatis — tours, tickets and the occasional skip-the-queue entry
- Booking.com — places to stay. The site also runs a script from Stay22, which handles accommodation links and pulls together the options for a place
- Discover Cars — car hire, which comes up most often for the Sierra and the runs over to Portugal
Some of those are newer than others and will not appear in every guide yet. If the list grows, this page changes.
What it does not change
I don’t recommend somewhere because it pays. A lot of the best things on this site have no affiliate programme at all and never will: village bars, a fossil trail up behind Monsagro, a bakery in Mogarraz, the walk out to a hermitage that is shut when you get there. If a place is worth the drive I will say so, and if it isn’t I will say that too. A commission has never once made a bad town good.
Where a guide contains affiliate links, I say so in the guide itself, near the top, before you have clicked anything. This page is the longer version of that note rather than a replacement for it.
What it pays for
Hosting, the domain, the fuel out to the next village, and a fair number of the meals I end up writing about. It does not yet pay for much else.
If you would rather not use them, that is genuinely fine. Search for the place directly and nothing is lost that I would want you to feel bad about. The guide is the same either way.