Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: September 21, 2026

Plyndi is a one-person, independent site, and affiliate commissions are how it stays online. This page explains exactly how that works, in plain terms and with no hedging.

What this means in practice

Some booking links on Plyndi — for stays, flights, tours and activities — are affiliate links. If you click one and book, Plyndi may earn a small commission from the booking platform. This costs you nothing extra. The price is identical whether you use the link or go to the platform directly.

Which programs Plyndi is actually in

This list reflects the current, real state of things rather than everything that might exist one day:

Trip.com — approved. Stays, flights and activities links on this site go through Trip.com’s affiliate program.
Booking.com — applied. Application submitted through Commission Junction (CJ); not yet live. When it’s approved, this page will say so and stay-booking links will be added.
Display advertising — none. Plyndi runs no ad network, including Google AdSense. If that ever changes, it will be stated here and in the privacy policy before any ad code goes live.

Plyndi is not part of the Travelpayouts network. An earlier version of this page mentioned it; that application was not approved and it is not in use.

Affiliate links on Plyndi are transitional. The plan is to replace them with direct partnerships; when that happens, affiliate links go away for good, and this page will say so.

How this affects what gets recommended

It doesn’t. A neighbourhood, restaurant or activity is in a guide because it’s worth knowing about, not because it pays better — and the commissions are on bookings, not on which temple you visit. Where a guide hasn’t personally verified a property or tour, it says so rather than implying firsthand experience it doesn’t have. Guides regularly recommend free things, cheaper alternatives, and skipping something entirely; none of that earns anything.

How to tell which links are affiliate links

Every page carrying affiliate links shows a visible disclosure banner near the top, and the booking blocks are labelled as affiliate links where they appear. In the page code, affiliate links are marked rel="sponsored nofollow" and open in a new tab — that’s the technical signal search engines use to identify paid links. Ordinary links to guides, official sites and references are never affiliate links.

Affiliate cookies

When you click an affiliate link, the booking platform may set a tracking cookie so it can attribute a resulting booking to Plyndi. That cookie is set by the partner, not by Plyndi, and is governed by that partner’s own privacy policy. See the privacy policy for what Plyndi itself collects.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want to know whether a specific link is an affiliate link, ask — you’ll get a straight answer.