Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Tour and activity cards on this site link to GetYourGuide. Hotel and rental links, the "see stays" buttons on where to stay in Madeira and the hotel pages, go through Stay22, which forwards you to Booking.com, Vrbo or another booking site and pays us a commission on the same terms. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a commission out of its own margin. Your price is identical either way, and clicking costs you nothing.

We are not a tour operator or a travel agency. We sell nothing, take no payments and act as nobody's agent.

Who does what

We compare listings and link out. The platform takes your payment, issues the voucher and handles customer service. The company named on the listing runs the actual tour, walk, boat trip or transfer. If a departure is cancelled or a guide fails to show, that is resolved between you, the platform and the operator under their policies. We have no standing in that conversation and cannot refund or reschedule anything.

Some things are only sold by the official body, or are best bought there. Trail permits and the Cabo Girão skywalk are booked on SIMplifica, the Porto Santo ferry on Porto Santo Line and Monte Palace tickets on the garden's own site. Where that is the case, the page links to the official source directly, with no tracking and no commission to us.

What the commission does not buy

Placement, ratings, wording. Nobody has paid to appear on this site or to be described in a particular way, and no operator sees a page before it is published.

The test is on the pages themselves: several of the most-read pages here send you to an official ticket office that pays us nothing, and recommend skipping a guided option that would. Where a tour is worth its markup we say why in the same terms, whether time saved, a room you cannot otherwise enter, or a queue you cannot otherwise skip.

Ratings and reviews

Every rating and review count shown on a tour card is the platform's own published number. We calculate no rating of our own, this site carries no aggregate rating of its own in its markup (it has no reviews), and we write no testimonials. Quoted reviews are short excerpts kept as published, with the source.

Prices

Tour prices here are the lowest adult rate on the listing at the last check, and fees and tickets are the official rate on the body's own page. Both move: platforms reprice constantly, and Madeira's regional government, its gardens and its ferry adjust prices by season and by year. The figure that counts is the one on the checkout page before you pay.

When it disagrees with ours, the checkout is right and we would like to know.