How This Site Earns From San Sebastian Bookings
The short version: some links on this site are affiliate links. Tours and tickets are booked on GetYourGuide and Viator. The free walking tours are pay-what-you-want GuruWalk departures run by independent local guides. Stays, car hire, airport transfers, luggage storage, eSIMs, flights and bus or train seats are booked through Travelpayouts partner programs. If you book through one of these links the provider may pay this site a commission, at no extra cost to you, and the price on the live listing is the price you pay.
This site earns money when a reader books a tour through a link on one of its pages. The booking happens on the live listing page of the platform that operates the tour, and that platform pays this site a commission on completed bookings. The price a reader pays is the same whether they arrive through a link here or find the listing on their own. Nothing on this page changes the cost of a pintxo tour in the Parte Vieja or a sail across La Concha bay.
The Links That Pay A Commission
Every tour card on this site carries a booking link, and most of those links are affiliate links. When a booking is completed through one of them, the platform behind the listing pays a commission. The roster covers 39 tours across 9 categories, from food walks to cider house trips and day tours along the coast, and the published from-prices run from $9.19 to $292.73. Those figures come from the listings themselves, not from negotiation.
What Earns Nothing At All
Not everything listed here earns money. The three free walking tours, booked through GuruWalk, pay this site nothing: they appear because they are genuinely useful, not because they carry a commission. Museum entries, Dbus fares, the Igueldo funicular and train tickets are also outside the affiliate setup, since readers buy those directly at the till in euros. The site lists them anyway, because a trip to San Sebastián is made of these things too.
No Paid Placements Here
No tour operator, restaurant or hotel has paid to appear on this site, and no ranking has been sold. Tours are listed because they fit the destination and the questions readers actually ask, from cooking classes near the Old Town to boat trips around Santa Clara island. Where a tour carries a rating and a review count, those numbers come from the live listing, not from any arrangement with the operator. Order on a page reflects editorial judgement alone.
Questions about how this site earns, about a specific listing, or about anything on the privacy policy can go through the contact page at /contact/. The privacy policy at /privacy/ explains what data the affiliate links involve and how it is handled. This site is an editorial desk, not a tour operator, so it cannot amend a booking, but it can point a reader to the right listing. Corrections are welcome and read.