Affiliate disclosure

The plain version

Some links on Spike Travel are partner links. If you click one and then book a hotel, buy a policy or order a product, the company pays us a percentage of the sale. The price you pay is the same whether you use our link or go direct.

We label these links where they appear: booking panels, product cards and verdict buttons each carry a sentence saying we earn a commission. In article text, partner links open in a new tab and are marked as sponsored for search engines.

What it does not change

Commissions do not decide what we recommend. We regularly recommend things that pay us nothing, and we criticise partners when they deserve it. Nobody at a partner company sees our pages before publication. If a dossier says a famous hotel is overpriced, that is because we think so.

Programmes we participate in

The list changes as programmes open and close. At the time of the last update it included: Booking.com (through Commission Junction), GetYourGuide, Viator, Tiqets, Klook, Agoda, Hostelworld, Discover Cars, Rentalcars.com, Omio, Trainline, Skyscanner, Kiwi.com, Travelpayouts, SafetyWing, World Nomads, Heymondo, Airalo, Holafly, Wise, Welcome Pickups and Amazon.

As an Amazon Associate, Spike Travel earns from qualifying purchases.

Some programmes impose content rules. World Nomads, for example, requires that we describe its products using its own wording and does not allow us to recommend its insurance; where that applies, the page says so.

Hosted travel and free products

Those follow our editorial standards. We disclose them on the page, a host gets no guarantee of coverage and no copy approval, and we never accept them for a review that carries a rating.

Questions

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