Affiliate Disclosure

The short version

Tour and activity cards on this site link to GetYourGuide and Viator. Hotel and area links, the "see stays in this area" buttons on where to stay in Tofino, go through Stay22, which forwards you to Booking.com, Agoda, Expedia or another booking site and pays us a commission on the same terms. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a commission out of its own margin. Your price is identical either way, and clicking costs you nothing.

We are not a tour operator or a travel agency. We sell nothing, take no payments and act as nobody's agent.

Who does what

We compare listings and link out. The platform takes your payment, issues the voucher and handles customer service; the company named on the listing runs the actual tour, walk or transfer. If a departure is cancelled or a guide fails to show, that is resolved between you, the platform and the operator under their policies, we have no standing in that conversation and cannot refund or reschedule anything.

Some things are different. Where the official source is the only way to pay, such as the Pacific Rim National Park day pass through Parks Canada, admission to Ucluelet Aquarium, or admission to Tofino Botanical Gardens, the page links to it directly, with no tracking and no commission to us.

What the commission does not buy

Placement, ratings, wording. Nobody has paid to appear on this site or to be described in a particular way, and no operator sees a page before it is published.

The test is on the pages themselves: several of the most-read pages here send you to an official park or attraction page that pays us nothing. Where a tour is worth its markup we say why in the same terms, a guide's knowledge, a boat you could not otherwise reach, a trail you could not otherwise access.

Ratings and reviews

Every rating and review count shown on a tour card is the platform's own published number, read on the date printed with it. We calculate no rating of our own, this site carries no aggregate rating of its own in its markup, it has no reviews, and we write no testimonials. Quoted reviews are short excerpts kept as published, with the source, and only ever 4 or 5 star reviews.

Prices

Tour prices here are the lowest adult rate on the listing at the last check, and park fees or admission prices are the official rate on the institution's own page at the date shown. Both move: platforms reprice constantly and Parks Canada and provincial fee schedules change season to season and year to year. The figure that counts is the one on the checkout page before you pay.

When it disagrees with ours, the checkout is right and we would like to know.