Affiliate Disclosure

What Is This Disclosure?

Tours After Dark ("we", "us", or "our") operates as an editorial travel platform that recommends after-dark experiences — including ghost tours, bar crawls, night cruises, food tours, and other evening activities — available through third-party booking platforms.

In accordance with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines on endorsements and testimonials (16 CFR Part 255), and similar regulations in other jurisdictions, we are required to clearly disclose any material relationships we have with the companies whose products or services we recommend.

This page fulfills that requirement. We are committed to full transparency with our readers.

How We Earn Commissions

When you click a booking link on Tours After Dark and complete a purchase on an approved third-party booking platform, we may receive a commission or referral fee from that platform. This is known as affiliate or performance-based marketing.

Current affiliate program status:

• Affiliate partners: Pending approval. We will name each approved partner here only after the relevant program or network account is active.
• Booking platforms: Third-party platforms may appear as comparison or booking options before affiliate approval; those references should not be read as a partnership claim.
• Placeholder links: Any provisional booking links are reviewed before launch and replaced with approved partner links when available.

Commission rates vary by platform, program, and booking type. Until an affiliate relationship is approved and an approved tracking link is active, we do not earn a commission from that program.

Critically: the price you pay should never be increased by an affiliate relationship. When approved affiliate links are active, our commission comes from the platform's existing margin, not from any markup applied to your booking.

Our Editorial Independence

Current or future affiliate relationships do not influence which tours, experiences, or platforms we recommend. Specifically:

• No platform pays to have experiences listed or promoted on this site.
• We do not accept payment to write positive reviews or to feature any particular tour operator.
• Recommendations are based solely on our editorial assessment of quality, value, and suitability for after-dark travelers.
• We reserve the right — and will exercise it — to remove or criticise any booking platform if it no longer meets our standards, regardless of any financial relationship.

We apply the same editorial criteria to paid, unpaid, and pending partner options: an experience has to genuinely belong in the dark.

What This Means for You

When you book through Tours After Dark:

• You should pay the same price you would pay when booking directly on the third-party booking platform.
• You get access to that platform's customer support, cancellation policies, and booking protections.
• You support independent travel editorial — allowing us to continue researching and curating after-dark experiences.

We genuinely appreciate it when you book through our links. It keeps the site running and allows us to invest in more research, better recommendations, and deeper coverage of cities around the world.

Third-Party Links and Platforms

Our site contains links to external booking platforms and operator websites. Tours After Dark is not responsible for the content, policies, or practices of these third-party sites. When you leave our site to complete a booking, you are subject to that platform's own terms, privacy policy, and cancellation policies.

We encourage you to review the terms of service and cancellation policy for any booking before completing a purchase.

Questions?

If you have any questions about this disclosure, our affiliate relationships, or our editorial policies, we'd genuinely like to hear from you.