Affiliate disclosure
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and complete a booking, we may earn a commission from the booking platform. This never changes the price you pay.
How to spot them
- Affiliate links point to our own
/go/directory first (e.g./go/trip-com-hotels), which redirects to the platform with our partner parameters. - They are marked
rel="nofollow sponsored"in the HTML. - They appear in two places only: the "Book this trip" block on guide pages, and the footer partner links.
The editorial firewall
No platform pays to be mentioned, ranked, or excluded. Guides are written first; booking links are added after, only where a booking is the natural next step. We recommend 12306 (which pays us nothing) over paid alternatives where it is genuinely the better option — see the train booking guide for an example.
Current partners
Trip.com (hotels, trains, flights, attractions) and Airalo (eSIMs). List updated as partners change.