How this site makes money

We may earn a commission from bookings made through these links, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate disclosure

The short version

Some of the links on this site point to travel booking platforms. If you follow one and make a booking, the platform may pay us a commission. You pay the same price either way — the commission comes out of the platform’s margin, not out of an increase to you.

That is the entire commercial model of this site. There is no paid placement, no sponsored content, and nothing here has been written or amended at the request of a company.

Which links

The affiliate links on this site are the ones inside the booking cards — the boxed sections headed with an invitation to compare or check prices. They point to travel platforms that sell park admissions, tours, hotels and transfers.

They are marked in three ways: visually, as a distinct card rather than as body text; in the page’s HTML, with the attributes search engines use to identify paid and sponsored links; and in writing, by a line of disclosure inside the card itself.

Ordinary links inside the text are not affiliate links. Links to other pages of this site, and to official sources, earn us nothing.

Where a page shows a booking card without working links, no commercial relationship is in place for that section yet, and the card says so rather than implying one.

What the commission does not affect

Prices and facts. Park admission, cable cars and the elevator are government-regulated tariffs in China. They are the same figure whoever sells the ticket, and they come from official price decisions rather than from any platform. There is no version of this site where shading a number earns us more.

Which platform you are shown. The booking platforms offered on a page are chosen by market — travellers in different countries are served by different platforms, and the ordering follows what actually works in each market rather than what pays best.

What we recommend. Where we think the cheaper option is better, we say so. The clearest example is on the itinerary pages: entering the forest park by the northern gate lets you skip the elevator and cable car fares entirely, and we recommend it where it fits, despite the fact that it removes a purchase.

What we leave blank. We do not publish prices we cannot source. That policy costs us conversions on exactly the pages where a confident number would earn most, and it stays.

Why we tell you

Partly because disclosure is required — by the United States Federal Trade Commission, among others — for anyone earning commission on recommendations. And partly because this site’s only real asset is being believed. A guide that hides how it is funded is asking you to trust it about smaller things than that.

More on how the guide is put together: about this guide.