Affiliate disclosure

The arrangement, in plain terms

San Antonio Missions Tickets takes part in the GetYourGuide affiliate programme. Every tour link and every booking panel on this site carries a partner id. If you book after clicking one, GetYourGuide pays me a percentage of the tour price. You pay exactly what you would pay going to GetYourGuide directly. Nothing is added to your bill, and no discount is withheld if you go around me.

There are no sponsored placements, no paid listings and no advertising on this site. No operator has paid to be included, no operator has seen a page before it published, and none of them can buy a position in a list or a sentence in a review. I do not run or crew any of the five tours here; who writes this site sets out what I actually do.

How the recommendations are made

Recommendations here follow what suits the visit. Four examples:

• Entry is free, and I say so before anything else. The single most valuable question anyone asks this site is whether they need tickets. The answer is no, it is the first thing on that page and on the homepage.
• The bike-share is the cheapest way to see all four missions. San Antonio BCycle has docks at every mission site and a day pass at $25, against US$65 for the cheapest guided tour listed here. It is the recommendation on the Mission Reach page. Check the current price with the operator; their pricing page carries no effective date.
• Two bike tours were removed from the site. This site set out to recommend two guided missions bike tours. Both now return errors, and there is no live missions bike tour left to link to. Instead the recommendation became the bike-share above.
• The dearest tour here is US$159 a head, with an average from 3 ratings, one of them with written text. Every page that prints that score prints the 3 beside it, and it does not have its own review page yet.

The aim throughout is to give you the right answer for your day, including the free options.

What the commission does not do

• It does not order the lists. On the tours page the products run cheapest first.
• It does not hide a bad review. The only critical review in the whole pool is quoted in full, uncut, on that same page, and referred to again on the reviews hub.
• It does not inflate a rating. No score appears anywhere on this site without the number of ratings behind it in the same breath, and two of the five products are noted as having few ratings so far.
• It does not let me tell you what you are buying. This site never asserts what a tour includes beyond the words on its own booking panel.

Links here that are not affiliate links

Most of them, in fact. Nothing is paid for the links to nps.gov, to VIA, to San Antonio BCycle, to the Alamo, to the four parish telephone numbers, or to any map on this site.

You can also book directly on GetYourGuide and you will pay the same.

Questions about any of this? Contact me, or read how the site decides what goes on a page.