Commercial record
How This Site Makes Money
The guides are free and always will be. Here is every way money reaches us, and what it is not allowed to change.
For the day
before the
big adventure.
A commercial relationship never changes a pick, an order, or a star.
Restaurants, hotels, and activities are chosen from public reviews and official sources before anyone checks whether the place can be booked through a partner — and plenty of them can't. Stars are a provenance claim about where a fact came from, not a rating we sell.
We offer a separately labeled parking sponsorship. A sponsor pays for that box, never for a place in an editorial recommendation or a change to the neutral parking list, its order, or its published rates.
Affiliate programs that pay us today
If you book or buy through one of these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That commission is what keeps the guides free.
Booking.com (through CJ Affiliate)
Hotel links
Booking.com Airport Taxis (through CJ Affiliate)
Airport-transfer links
Amazon Associates
Packing-list items
Viator
Tour, activity and port-transfer links
Travel Guard (through CJ Affiliate)
Cruise-insurance quote links
Squaremouth (direct affiliate program)
Cruise-insurance quote-comparison links
CruiseDirect (through CJ Affiliate)
Cruise-booking links
Expedia (through CJ Affiliate)
Car-rental links on airport-route pages; one reviewed hotel on the Port Canaveral hotel comparison page
Undercover Tourist (through CJ Affiliate)
Theme-park ticket links on the activities pages
Welcome Pickups (through CJ Affiliate)
Airport-transfer links on the airport-route pages
CarmelLimo (through CJ Affiliate)
Airport car-service links on the New York airport-route pages
Parking Access (direct affiliate program)
Daily parking reservations on the parking and terminal pages
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Partners that pay us nothing
These merchants appear on the site, but their links go to ordinary public pages with no tracking attached, so nothing below earns us a cent. We list them anyway, because the honest thing to disclose is the relationship, not the payout.
Way.com (through FlexOffers)
Daily parking reservations
SpotHero (through FlexOffers)
City-garage parking reservations
Parking sponsorship
We offer one sponsored slot per US port to off-site cruise parking operators. The same approved name, sentence and link appear in selected parking-related placements, labeled Sponsored. Availability, the operator, copy and destination are reviewed before payment; payment alone does not publish a placement.
While a placement is live, other parking affiliate booking cards for that port are hidden. Neutral parking information, rates and source links remain. Hotel, restaurant and activity recommendations are not for sale.
Parking sponsorship terms and placementsCabin comparisons and budget tools
Your cabin comparison uses your quotes, priorities and sourced facts. Commission and merchant identity are never inputs to ranking. The cruise action opens a departure-port search through CruiseDirect; it does not promise your entered price, cabin or sailing is available there. Verify the party, room, full price and terms with the seller. A disclosed booking may earn us a commission.
Read our comparison methodologyReader tips
Readers can tip us directly through Buy Me a Coffee. A tip buys nothing but our thanks — it has no effect on any guide.
What we do not do
- No pop-ups or paywall.
- No sponsored posts or pay-for-review deals. The one paid slot we sell is a featured parking sponsorship for a US port, always labeled Sponsored, sold on the terms in our advertising policy; it never changes the neutral list or any recommendation.
- No selling, renting, or sharing your email with anyone.
- No affiliate link that changes what a guide recommends. If we can't recommend a place honestly, it doesn't go in.
Questions or corrections
If something on this page looks wrong — a link that earns when we say it doesn't, or a program we forgot to list — tell us at help@cruisedayguide.com. For what happens to your data, see our privacy policy.