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Where the money comes from, stated plainly.

The short version: some links on this site are affiliate links. If you book a tour or a hotel after clicking one, we may be paid a commission by the booking platform. It costs you nothing extra, and nobody can pay to be recommended.

Our partners

GetYourGuide. Tours, boat trips, tickets and transfers featured on Kendwa.com link to GetYourGuide, where we are a registered affiliate partner. A share of GetYourGuide’s own commission is passed to us when a booking follows a click from this site.

Trip.com. Hotels on our where to stay page link to Trip.com. Where an affiliate agreement is active, completed stays may earn us a commission in the same way.

What it means for you

  • Same price. You pay what you would pay by going to the platform directly.
  • No paid placement. Operators and hotels cannot buy a listing, a ranking position or a favourable write-up.
  • Honest drawbacks. We point out long drives, noisy rooms, thin review counts and cases where the cheaper option is the better one.
  • No advertising. Commissions are the site’s only income; they pay for research, hosting and updates.

How recommendations are made

Tours are assessed on how well they work from a Kendwa base, on the quality of the experience, on value and on their record with past customers, using ratings and review counts published by GetYourGuide. Hotels are chosen on location, guest scores and price using Trip.com data. Products that decline or disappear are removed.

About the prices we show

Prices quoted on this site are indicative “from” figures recorded at the time of writing. They change with season, currency and availability. The amount shown on the booking platform when you pay is the one that counts.

Questions

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