Affiliate Disclosure
Packzup is reader-supported. Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click through and book or buy, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. This page explains exactly how that works and why we believe it’s compatible with honest journalism.
What is an Affiliate Link?
An affiliate link is a special URL that tells a partner company that you came to them from Packzup. If you make a purchase through that link, the partner pays Packzup a small percentage (typically 3-10%) of the sale. The price you pay does not change.
Affiliate Partners We Work With
Packzup has affiliate relationships with services we personally use and vet. These include:
- Booking.com / Agoda — hotel + accommodation bookings
- SafetyWing + World Nomads — travel insurance
- Airalo + Holafly — eSIM cards for international travel
- Wise (formerly TransferWise) — multi-currency accounts + transfers
- Skyscanner + Hopper — flight search + booking
- GetYourGuide + Viator — tours + experiences
- Amazon (selected gear recommendations only) — travel gear we’ve used
- Various tour operators — case-by-case, only when we’ve personally tested or vetted
How This Affects What We Write
The short answer: it doesn’t.
The longer answer: we have a strict editorial rule that affiliate relationships cannot influence what we recommend. If a free or cheaper alternative is better, we say so. If a non-affiliate operator is the best choice, we recommend them anyway. We’ve removed affiliate links from articles when the affiliate operator went downhill in quality. Read our full editorial policy.
How to Tell if a Link is an Affiliate
By US FTC rules, we disclose affiliate relationships in two ways:
- Sitewide — this page
- Per-article — articles with significant affiliate content include a disclosure box near the top
Affiliate links may also be marked with rel="sponsored" in the HTML, which is the modern best-practice signal to search engines that a link has a commercial relationship.
You Are Never Required to Use Our Links
If you want to book on Booking.com without using our affiliate link, just type the URL directly into your browser. We’d appreciate the support but we won’t track or penalize you for not using affiliate links.
Questions
If you have questions about how we handle affiliate disclosures, email editor@packzup.com.
This policy was last updated when this page was published, and is reviewed at minimum annually.