Affiliate disclosure

Which links these are

Every tour card, every “check availability” button and every booking widget on the site. They carry my partner tag and they open on GetYourGuide, which is where the booking is made and where your money goes. The links to the Bavarian Palace Administration, for Nymphenburg and for the Munich Residenz, are not affiliate links and earn me nothing. They are there because that is where those tickets are actually sold.

What no commission here can buy you

The state combination ticket, which is what most readers of this site came for. It is sold by the Bavarian Palace Administration, it costs about twenty euros for an adult in summer and less in winter, everyone under 18 goes in free, and so do students over 18 from general, vocational and special schools with valid ID. I earn nothing on it. I earn nothing on the palace on its own, on the Marstallmuseum, or on the four park palaces, for the same reason.

And I earn nothing at all on the two hundred hectares of park, because walking in it is free at any hour the gates are open, in every season. That is probably the most valuable thing on this whole site to a visitor, and there is no commission attached to it anywhere. If that sounds like an odd thing to put on a disclosure page, it is exactly why this one is worth reading.

How it affects what I write

The commission does not write the copy. Every listing is presented on what its own page says: which tours include the state ticket and which sell it separately, which reviews belong to which tour, and which listing is the full day at the Alpine castles rather than an afternoon at this palace. All of that is on the reviews page and on every tour we list . The rule is simple: I recommend what I would recommend to a visitor standing in front of me.

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