Affiliate Disclosure
This page explains where money changes hands on Lisbon Tourism Guide, and what that does and does not change about what you read. Last updated: 21 September 2026.
The short version
Links in these guides to hotels, apartments and other booking sites earn us a commission when you book through them. Your price is the same either way, and no commission decides what a guide recommends.
How this site is funded
Lisbon Tourism Guide is free to read and sells nothing of its own. Part of what keeps it running is commission on bookings, handled by Stay22, a booking-link partner. Its script turns links to hotels and booking sites into commission-tracking links as the page loads, so a link that looks entirely plain in the page can still earn us a commission.
Because the partner converts those links when the page loads, rather than us choosing them when a guide is written, we cannot list the paid links one by one. That is why the notice at the top of every guide is unconditional: assume a link to a hotel or booking site earns us a commission.
The commission is paid by the booking company out of its own margin. Booking through a link here costs exactly what booking direct would.
What it does not buy
No hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction pays to appear in a guide or to be left out of one, and none of them sees an article before it is published. We do not publish sponsored posts or guest articles placed for links. A guide is researched and written first; the commission is added afterwards, automatically, to whatever booking links are already there.
Links to Carris, CP, Metropolitano de Lisboa, Parques de Sintra, the museums and the other official sources the guides rely on earn nothing. They are there because that is where the facts come from.
Lisbon Tourism Guide is not a booking agency and is not a party to any booking you make: that contract is between you and the company taking your money.
What this means for your data
Stay22 does not set a cookie. It recognises your device from the characteristics of your browser and keeps an identifier in your browser’s local storage, under the names visitor_id_id22 and cache_id22, so that a booking made later can be credited here. We never see your name, your travel dates or your payment details — what comes back is a count of clicks and, sometimes, the fact that a booking happened.
It sits in the Advertising group in the cookie settings, and until that group is allowed it does not load at all. In the EU, the UK and the other countries listed in the privacy policy it stays off until you say yes; in the United States it stays off until you answer the bar; in Canada and the countries where a notice is enough it starts on arrival, and the same settings switch it off. If you allow it and change your mind, the scripts stop and what they stored on your device is cleared, including visitor_id_id22, cache_id22 and the thumbmark_* keys. The links still work, at the same price, whatever you choose.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think a link has not been disclosed properly, say so through the contact page. Corrections get made.