Affiliate disclosure

Which links pay me and which do not

The paying ones are the tour cards, the check-availability buttons and the booking widgets. Each carries my partner tag, each opens on the platform, and that is the only place on this site where a transaction happens. The links that pay me nothing are the ones to the operator: its own booking site and its own museum pages, in the footer and through the pages about tickets, hours and booking. They point at the operator’s counter because that is the counter this chapel is sold over.

The awkward part, and it is particular to this address

On most sites of this kind the attraction sells its own admission and the platform sells only tours, so there is nothing much to declare. Here there is. One listing in my catalogue is the operator’s admission, resold with an audio guide, and if you book it through me I am paid on it. The operator sells that same admission itself, at its own published price, and I am paid nothing at all when you buy it there.

So the comparison between the two — the operator’s tariff set against what a resold listing costs, as a table, with the unit in every cell — is on the tickets page, which is where somebody shopping for a ticket actually lands. A reviewer who felt strongly about that difference is quoted there in his own words. It would be easy to leave that page out of a site that earns on the listing, and it is the first page I wrote.

What at this address earns me nothing

• The operator’s own admission, bought on its own booking site, at full, concession or school rate. None of that reaches me.
• The Eremitani Museum and Palazzo Zuckermann, which the same ticket already covers on every day except Monday, and which two reviewers quoted on this site say are worth an afternoon on their own.
• Everything on the walls. The whole art half of this site — the frescoes, Giotto, the blue, the Judgement, the technique — carries no booking link, because there is nothing there to book. It is also the half people come back for.
• Reading up before you go, which is free, takes an evening, and does a fair amount of what a paid guide is about to do for you.

What the commission has not stopped me printing

That the listing which is the resold ticket is the lowest-rated of the thirteen here, and that its audio guide is described on its own page as a guide to Padua city rather than to the frescoes. That one listing reserves the right to substitute the chapel with “a similar visit” when tickets are not available for your date. That another carries the chapel ticket on its not-included list and explains the building from outside. That four listings in my catalogue have never been written about by anybody. And that the operator’s own counter is where this chapel is really sold.

Those sentences cost me money and they are on the review pages and on the full comparison anyway. The test I use is simple: would I say this to somebody standing beside me in the waiting room, with no commission involved. If not, it does not go on the page. Questions about any of this? Write to me.