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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.

The rule

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.

No one pays for placement here, and nothing on this site is sponsored content. If a partner asked us to move something up, the answer would be no, and we would say so on this page.

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 and airport-taxi links

  • Amazon Associates

    Packing-list items

  • Viator

    Tour and activity links

  • CruiseDirect (through CJ Affiliate)

    Cruise-booking links

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.

  • Travel Guard (through CJ Affiliate)

    Cruise-insurance quote links

  • ParkSleepFly (through CJ Affiliate)

    Park-and-cruise package links

  • Way.com (through FlexOffers)

    Daily parking reservations

  • SpotHero (through FlexOffers)

    City-garage parking reservations

Products we own

Thingvalla Technology owns both CruiseDayGuide and SeaDayGames. SeaDayGames is our own product, not an advertiser — when one of its games appears in a guide, we keep the full price rather than a commission. Owned-product links are labeled as ours wherever they appear, and they carry a stronger statement than an affiliate note because a bigger interest deserves a plainer warning.

Readers can also 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 display ads, pop-ups, or paywall.
  • No paid placements, sponsored posts, or pay-for-review deals.
  • 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.