Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Tour and activity cards on this site link to GetYourGuide and Viator. Hotel and neighbourhood links, the "see stays in this area" buttons on where to stay in Cinque Terre, go through Stay22, which forwards you to Booking.com, Agoda, Expedia or another booking site and pays us a commission on the same terms. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a commission out of its own margin. Your price is identical either way, and clicking costs you nothing.

We are not a tour operator or a travel agency. We sell nothing, take no payments and act as nobody's agent.

Who does what

We compare listings and link out. The platform takes your payment, issues the voucher and handles customer service, and the company named on the listing runs the actual boat trip, hike or class. If a departure is cancelled or a guide fails to show, that is resolved between you, the platform and the operator under their policies. We have no standing in that conversation and cannot refund or reschedule anything.

Trail and transport access is different. Nobody sells the Cinque Terre Card or the ferry through this site's affiliate networks, so where the official park shop, card.parconazionale5terre.it, or the ferry operator, navigazionegolfodeipoeti.it, is the only place to buy, the page links to it directly, with no tracking and no commission to us.

What the commission does not buy

Placement, ratings, wording. Nobody has paid to appear on this site or to be described in a particular way, and no operator sees a page before it is published.

The test is on the pages themselves: several of the most-read pages here send you to an official ticket office that pays us nothing, and recommend skipping a guided option that would. Where a tour is worth its markup we say why in the same terms, time saved, a room you cannot otherwise enter, a queue you cannot otherwise skip.

Ratings and reviews

Every rating and review count shown on a tour card is the platform's own published number, read on the date printed with it. We calculate no rating of our own, this site carries no aggregate rating of its own in its markup, it has no reviews, and we write no testimonials. Quoted reviews are short excerpts kept as published, with the source.

Prices

Tour prices here are the lowest adult rate on the listing at the last check, and card or ferry prices are the official rate on the park's or the operator's own page at the date shown. Both move: platforms reprice constantly and Italian park and transport prices are adjusted by season and by year. The figure that counts is the one on the checkout page before you pay. When it disagrees with ours, the checkout is right and we would like to know.

The nightly bands on the neighbourhood pages are a separate thing again: they are the middle half of the rates a hotel search returned for one midweek night, read on the date printed beside them, and are there to compare areas with each other. They are not a quote, and they move with the date you pick.