Affiliate Disclosure

Some links here earn us a commission, you pay the same either way, nobody pays to appear, and most of what a New York trip costs pays us nothing.

Which Links Are Affiliate Links

Every booking button and every in-text link that opens a tour listing carries our partner tag. The three multi-day packages are sold on TourRadar. Five day products, the Niagara day trip, the Washington DC day trip, the Liberty cruise, the Statue of Liberty ticket and the helicopter flight, sit on GetYourGuide. The Greenwich Village food tour is on Viator. If you book after clicking one of these links, the platform pays us a share of the commission it already earns from the operator. Your price is identical to what you would see arriving at the listing directly, because our cut comes out of the platform's margin and is never added to your ticket.

There is one further affiliate relationship. Five "Check rates" buttons in the hotel packages guide link to Expedia, covering the five real hotels our packages actually use: Sheraton New York Times Square, The Hotel at Fifth Avenue, Hampton Inn Princeton, The Offshore in Montauk and Residence Inn Yonkers. These are the properties named in the package descriptions, not a curated "best hotels" list, and an Expedia booking pays us the same way a tour booking does. There are no flight links anywhere on the site, no display advertising, no sponsored posts and no paid reviews. The videos embedded on the homepage earn us nothing, and neither does the map beside them. If a fifth network is ever added, this page will name it before the first link goes live.

No Operator Pays To Appear Or Rank

Inclusion is not for sale. A tour ships here if it is genuinely bookable today by an individual, with published departures, a price that holds steady, and a review record that supports whatever its card claims. Nine products cleared all three. Nothing bought its way in, and nothing was offered the chance to.

Ordering works the same way. No operator can buy a position and none has been offered one. Within each group the order follows the shape of the trip: longest and most-handled first, then shorter and cheaper options. That is why a highly reviewed day trip sits below a road trip with no tour reviews at all in the escapes section. Sorting by commission would produce a very different page.

What This Does Not Change

Honesty survives the commission or the site is worthless. Two examples of what that means in practice:

• The Worldee routes show no stars. The two private itineraries carry no tour-level reviews, because their listings show reviews of the company's other trips rather than of these routes. We say so plainly on their rows instead of filling the gap with the operator-level 4.2 across 21 reviews.
• No hop-on hop-off bus is listed. We checked the major listings. Every one rated between 3.1 and 4.1, and one of the largest turned out to be dead, still carrying thousands of old reviews under a title its own seller had marked unusable. A second Niagara listing was dropped when its price would not hold still. All of them would have paid commission exactly like the nine we kept.

Corrections happen whether or not they cost us a click. A wrong price gets fixed. Readers who spot a gap can write to us through the contact page.

The Parts Of Your Trip That Pay Us Nothing

Worth saying plainly, because it is most of what you will spend. Unless a room sits inside one of the three packages, we earn nothing on where you sleep. The same goes for your flights, the subway, Broadway seats, the observation decks and museum admissions. None of it reaches us.

That shapes our incentives, so here is the consequence. The only part of your trip we can earn on is the tour, and the tours here run from $25 to $2,899. We could quietly push the expensive end. Instead the guides spend most of their length on the cheap end: what the subway fare cap actually does, when the free Staten Island Ferry beats a paid cruise, why a winter Niagara day is a different product from a summer one, and which day tours duplicate something a package already includes. Those pages cost us commission on purpose.

Ratings, Review Counts And Prices

Every rating and review count on this site is the platform's own published number, read off the live listing. Nothing is averaged across platforms, rounded up or invented. The guided package runs 4.2 across 12 reviews at tour level, with its operator Collette separately rated 4.5 across 954, and the two Worldee routes show no tour-level rating at all.

Prices work the same way and come with a bigger caveat. What you see is a current per-person from-price, the cheapest option on that listing when it was read. What you actually pay moves with the date, the party size, the option you pick and the country you book from. One listing, the Washington DC day trip, runs a live promotion at $107 struck through from $114, and we label it as a sale rather than present it as the standing rate. A price that reads differently in two places usually means the platform is showing a localized currency, not that the operator raised its fee.

If You Would Rather Not Use Our Links

Search the operator's name on the platform directly, or find the operator's own website and book there. Collette, Worldee, Royal City Tours, Interviajes NY, Circle Line Sightseeing, Statue City Cruises, HeliNY and Nice Guy Tours all sell these tours themselves. The comparisons, the cost pages, the FAQ and the guides work exactly as well as research whether or not you ever click a booking link. We would rather you got out on the water or up the Hudson than not.

How the listings are checked in the first place is on the about page, and anything else can go through the contact page.