Affiliate Disclosure

New York City Travel Guide is an independent site. When you book a tour through certain links here, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That is the whole business model, and this page explains exactly how it works.

The Links That Pay Us a Commission

Most links that earn for this site point to the live listing for a tour, the page where you can actually reserve a seat. Others lead to travel-booking partners behind airport transfer, luggage storage and similar practical pages. When a booking happens through one of those links, the seller pays us a share of the sale. Your price stays identical whether you arrive via our link or type the address yourself. Plenty of links on these pages earn nothing: the National Park Service pages for the Statue of Liberty, Statue City Cruises, MTA airport guides and other public sources send you to information, not to a checkout.

Where No Money Changes Hands

Much of what this guide points to carries no price tag and no link. Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge at sunrise costs nothing. Neither does an afternoon in Central Park, a ride on the Staten Island Ferry, or an hour in Grand Central's main concourse looking up. These appear alongside paid tours because they belong in any honest list of things to do in the city, not because anyone paid for the spot.

What the Money Does Not Change

Commission never decides rank or inclusion. The editor who builds these pages picks tours from the published listings, weighs them against each other, and writes the comparisons. No operator has paid for a place on this site, and no operator can pay to climb one. Where a rating and review count appear next to a tour, those are the seller's own published numbers, reproduced without adjustment. A tour with a middling score sits on the page with that score showing, whether it earns us anything or not.

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