Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 10 September 2026.

The short version

Vienna Tourism Guide earns a commission when a reader books accommodation or an activity through a link on this site. The commission is paid by the booking provider, not by you — the price is the same as booking direct. It never affects what the guides recommend.

How this site is funded

Booking links here are handled by Stay22, a booking partner. Its script rewrites accommodation and activity links as the page loads, so that a booking made afterwards can be credited to this site, and the provider pays us a commission on it.

Because that rewriting happens in your browser after the page has loaded, we cannot mark individual links when an article is published, and you cannot tell from a URL which ones are monetised. That is why every guide carries a disclosure at the top rather than a label on particular links: it is the only version that is accurate on every page.

In practice most links in these guides go to museums, transport operators and venue box offices, which earn us nothing at all. Several guides tell you to book direct precisely because it is cheaper. The commission arrangement is with booking platforms, not with individual hotels, restaurants or attractions.

What is not happening

No advertising network runs on this site. There are no sponsored posts and no paid placements: nobody has paid, in money or in kind, to be included here, recommended, or left out, and no business sees an article before it is published.

What this means for your data

Stay22 does not set a cookie. It identifies your device from characteristics of your browser and stores an identifier in your browser’s local storage, which means clearing cookies alone does not clear it. The consent banner classes it as a marketing service, so the script does not load until you allow marketing, and declining changes nothing about what you can read.

The privacy policy and cookie policy carry the rest of the detail.

You can refuse all of this. Stay22 sits in the Advertising group in the cookie settings, and until that group is allowed the script does not load at all — no rewriting, no identifier, nothing stored. In the EU, the UK and the other countries listed in the privacy policy it stays off until you say yes; in the United States it stays off until you answer the bar. If you allow it and change your mind, the scripts stop and what they stored on your device is cleared, including visitor_id_id22, cache_id22 and the thumbmark_* keys. The links still work, the price is unchanged, and we still earn nothing extra from you either way.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think a link is not disclosed properly, the contact page reaches the publisher directly.