Affiliate Disclosure

waldnexo is free to read and always will be. We keep the lights on through affiliate commissions — a small cut some resorts pay us when a reader we sent goes on to book with them. This page explains that arrangement in full, because a review index is only worth reading if you know exactly where its money comes from.

Start with the part that matters to you

An affiliate commission is paid by the resort, out of its own marketing budget. It is never added to your bill. The nightly rate you see after following one of our links is the same rate you would have found going to the property directly — and on a fair number of stays it is actually lower, because some operators reserve their better public rates for partner traffic. In short: using our links costs you nothing, and now and then it saves you something. That is the whole bargain.

So how does waldnexo make money?

We do not sell rooms, hold inventory, run a booking engine or take a single cent from you. What we do is point readers towards properties we have visited and rated, using tracked links to each resort's official reservation page. When a reader follows one of those links and later completes a booking, the resort credits us with a referral fee — usually a modest percentage of the room cost. Gather enough of those small fees across a month and they cover the cost of running an independent review desk. No paywall, no subscription, no on-page advertising.

What happens when you tap “Check Availability”

Every outbound booking link on waldnexo — the buttons marked “Check Availability” on our resort reviews — sends you to the operator's own website, not to a middleman. As you arrive, a small tracking parameter and a short-lived cookie record that the visit began with us. If you book within the window that cookie is valid, the resort attributes the referral to waldnexo and pays the fee. If you wander off, sleep on it, and book a fortnight later from a different device, we most likely earn nothing — and that is completely fine. The reader always comes before the referral.

Why a commission can never move a score

This is the line we will not cross. Our editorial team and our commercial arrangements are kept deliberately apart. The writers who score a resort do not know, and do not ask, what any particular property pays — or whether it pays at all. A five-star stay with no affiliate deal is reviewed by exactly the same yardstick as one that sends us a fee on every booking.

That means we publish the unflattering findings as readily as the flattering ones. A smoky floor, a slow VIP desk, a tired suite, an overpriced dinner: if we found it, you will read it, partner or not. We have never quietly raised a score to keep a resort happy, and a disclosure page would be worthless if we had. If a property dislikes its review, it is welcome to improve the thing we criticised — that is the only lever that moves a waldnexo rating.

The links we earn absolutely nothing from

Plenty of the links on this site make us no money at all, and we think it matters to say so. We earn nothing from links to helplines or to the regulators that license casino gaming. We earn nothing from links to our own Responsible Gaming guidance, to news sources we cite, or to a resort's history and background pages. Anything that exists purely to inform you is exactly that — informational. The commercial links are only ever the booking buttons, and they are the easy ones to spot.

What your clicks actually pay for

Because there is no advertising and no subscription, affiliate income is the single thing that funds the work. It pays for the nights we book under our own names, the dinners and the floor time we settle ourselves, the travel to and from each spa town, and the hours spent writing it all up honestly. Choosing to start your booking through one of our links is, in practical terms, the way a reader says thank you — at no cost to themselves. We are genuinely grateful when you do, and the site keeps working whether or not you do.

How to tell an affiliate link from any other

• If a link is a “Check Availability” button on a resort review, treat it as an affiliate link — that is what it is.
• Those links carry tracking parameters and open the operator's official site in a new tab.
• Plain text links to regulators, helplines, our own pages or cited sources are not affiliate links and earn us nothing.
• We never disguise a booking link as editorial text, and we never bury one inside a sentence hoping you click it by accident.

Changed your mind, or spotted a problem?

You are never obliged to use our links. Booking a resort directly, with no tracking and no referral, is always an option and we will think no less of you for it. And if you ever believe a review reads as though it were bought rather than earned, we want to hear about it — that feedback goes to the editorial desk, not the sales side. Write to us through the contact page or read more about how the desk works on our about page. For the wider rules that govern using waldnexo, see our terms and privacy policy.

This disclosure forms part of our terms of use. We review it whenever our commercial arrangements change, and the date above always reflects the latest revision.