Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Two networks earn on this site, and no others. Tour and attraction-ticket cards link to GetYourGuide. Hotel and area links, the "see stays in this area" buttons on where to stay in Vancouver and on the neighbourhood pages, go through Stay22, which forwards you to Booking.com, Agoda or another hotel booking site and pays us a commission on the same terms. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us 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, cruise or transfer. If a departure is cancelled or a guide fails to show, that is settled between you, the platform and the operator under their policies. We have no standing in that conversation and can refund or reschedule nothing.

Attraction admission is different. Where the official ticket office is the right place to buy, which in this city is most of the time, the page links to it directly. Those links carry no tracking, are never affiliate links and pay us nothing: Capilano Suspension Bridge Park, Grouse Mountain, the Vancouver Aquarium, Science World, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Museum of Anthropology all sell their own admission, and buying from them is often the cheaper or the only option. A platform ticket earns its place only when it saves time, bundles a transfer or covers something the ticket office does not.

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 tell you to skip a guided option that would have earned. Where a tour is worth its markup we say why in the same terms, whether that is transport to a trailhead, a slot that sells out, or a drive up the Sea to Sky highway you would otherwise be doing yourself.

Ratings and reviews

Every rating and review count shown on a tour card is the platform's own published number, read on the date printed with it. We calculate no rating of our own, this site carries no aggregate rating 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 attraction prices are the official rate on the operator's own page at the date shown. Both move: platforms reprice constantly and Canadian attractions adjust admission by season and by year. Figures are shown in US dollars with the Canadian price in brackets, converted at the European Central Bank reference rate published on Vancouver costs; the amount charged at the till is the Canadian one. The figure that finally 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.

The nightly bands on the area pages are a separate thing again: they are the middle half of the rates a hotel search returned for one midweek night, read on the date printed beside them, and they exist to compare one area with another. They are not a quote, and they move with the date you pick.