Affiliate Disclosure
The short version
Some links on this site go to ticket partners. If you book Basilica Cistern tickets through one of them, we receive a commission from that partner. It does not change what you pay on their site, and it does not decide what we write about them.
You pay the same either way. The commission comes out of the partner's margin, not out of your pocket.
Who we work with
Tiqets - Tiqets International B.V., registered in Amsterdam. A ticket booking platform selling Basilica Cistern entry, skip-the-line tickets, guided tours, and combinations with other Istanbul attractions.
If we add partners, they get listed here. Links to partners carry rel="nofollow sponsored" markup.
What commission does not buy
It does not buy a recommendation. Partners have no say in what we write, how we rank options, or whether we suggest their product at all.
It does not stop us telling you not to buy. Several pages on this site advise against a purchase - skip-the-line in low season, the Night Shift if atmosphere is not your thing. We earn zero on that advice and give it anyway.
It does not make us repeat a partner's marketing. Where a listing description oversells - a "guided tour" that is really a ticket handover plus a short introduction - we describe what the product actually is, not what sells it.
Where the links appear
Near the booking guidance on the money pages, in the comparison tables, and in the product widgets on content pages. Blog posts are informational and do not push products.
You will not find affiliate links disguised as editorial text.
Why we do it this way
Affiliate revenue is what pays for the research. The alternative models are worse: advertising pushes you towards whatever pays most per impression, and a paywall on practical travel information is a bad idea.
The trade-off is real and we are not going to pretend it does not exist. A site that earns commission on bookings has a structural interest in you booking. Our answer is to be explicit about where that interest lies, to publish the advice that costs us money when the advice is right, and to check facts against sources you can verify.
Questions about our links
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