Affiliate Disclosure
Some links on this site earn us money. Here is exactly which ones, how much of your money it costs, and what it does not buy.
- Last updated 21 August 2026
- Plain English
The short version
VoyageLedger contains affiliate links. If you book a hotel, buy a piece of kit, or take out an eSIM after following one, we may earn a commission. You never pay more because of it — the price is the same as going direct, and the commission comes out of the seller's margin.
Commission never buys a recommendation, a ranking, or a kind word. That claim is easy to make and hard to verify, so the sections below set out how the arrangement actually works.
How affiliate links work
An affiliate link is an ordinary link with a tracking code attached identifying VoyageLedger as the referrer. When you click it, the partner's site records that you arrived from here, usually with a cookie. If you go on to book or buy within their attribution window, they pay us a percentage of the sale.
Nothing is added to your price, nothing is charged to you, and you are under no obligation to use these links. If you would rather not, search for the hotel or product directly — the site works exactly the same either way, and none of the tools are gated behind an affiliate click.
Programmes we join
These are the affiliate programmes VoyageLedger participates in or is in the process of joining. The cookie window is set by the partner and is listed here because ourCookie Policy refers back to this table.
This list is kept current. If we join a programme that is not on it, the page is updated before the links go live.
Amazon Associates
VoyageLedger is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Amazon links appear in the packing list generator, where they are attached to gear categories such as adapters, daypacks, and packing cubes. Every one is labelled "Buy on Amazon" so you know what it is before you click.
Editorial independence
Three rules govern how commission interacts with what we publish.
- Rankings are not for sale. Hotels and restaurants are ordered by rating, price, and location, using the same criteria whether or not a booking through them earns us anything. No business has ever paid to be listed, ranked higher, or described more favourably.
- Negative coverage stays. If a hotel is poorly located, overpriced, or badly reviewed, we say so on the page that also carries its booking link. A guide unwilling to be negative is worthless, and we would rather lose a commission than a reader.
- Commission rates do not order the page. Luxury hotels pay considerably more per booking than budget ones. Our cheap-hotel pages lead with cheap hotels regardless.
We also have no relationship with the businesses we list. Nobody is given advance sight of a page, a right of reply before publication, or the ability to have a listing removed because they dislike it. If you spot something that reads like a paid placement, tell us — that is a bug, and we will fix it.
How links are marked
Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored nofollow" in the page code, which is what search engines and regulators expect of a paid link. Where an affiliate link sits alongside a plain one, its label makes the destination obvious — "Check prices on Booking.com", "Buy on Amazon" — rather than disguising it as editorial text.
This page is linked from the footer of every page on the site, and pages carrying affiliate links point back to it.
Display advertising
VoyageLedger carries no display advertising as of 21 August 2026, though we expect to introduce it. Advertising, when it arrives, will be visually distinct from editorial content and will never be dressed up as a recommendation. Advertisers will have no say over what is published. See the Cookie Policy for how advertising cookies will be handled.
Why the site is funded this way
Researching a city properly — checking prices, verifying visa rules against government sources, confirming halal certification — takes real time. That has to be paid for somehow, and the options are a paywall, selling reader data, or commission on bookings people were going to make anyway.
We picked the third. It keeps every page and every tool free, requires no account, and means we never have to collect anything about you to sell. The trade is that we earn when you book through us, which is why the disclosure above matters and why the independence rules are written down rather than implied.
Questions about any of this go to info@voyageledger.com. Last revised 21 August 2026.