Affiliate Disclosure

When you press Check availability on a hotel, we send you to a booking partner’s own website. The link carries a code that tells the partner you arrived from CebuFest. If you go on to book, the partner keeps a share of what you paid and passes a part of it to us.

The price you are quoted is the partner’s normal price. We cannot raise it, lower it, or see it — CebuFest never stores or displays live rates, only a rough price band.

• Agoda

  A hotel booking site. Almost every “Check availability” button on CebuFest goes to Agoda, and Agoda pays us a share of what it earns if you go on to book.

• Booking with a hotel directlynot used by any hotel yet

  Some hotels take bookings on their own website and run their own affiliate scheme. Where that happens the hotel pays us directly, with no booking site in between.

This list is generated from the partners the site is actually configured to use, so it cannot fall out of step with the links on the page.

A commissioned link is always a booking button or a hotel card. You will find them in these places:

• Hotel cards on the home page and the hotel listing.
• The availability panel on a hotel’s own page.
• The hotels suggested for each night of a generated trip plan.
• The “where to stay” suggestions on an event page.
• Hotels mentioned in a guide.
• The copy of a trip plan we email you, if you ask for one.

Wherever they appear, the page carries a short disclosure line of its own, next to the links rather than only in the footer.

Most links on CebuFest earn nothing, and the distinction is worth stating:

• “Get directions” links, which go straight to a map.
• Event ticket links and official event websites.
• Sponsor logos on the home page, which are a paid placement rather than a commission — a different arrangement, disclosed separately where they appear.
• Every link to another page on CebuFest.

This is the part that matters most, so it is written down rather than implied. Commission plays no part in what we show you.

• The hotels suggested for a night of your trip are chosen by how close they are to where you will actually be, then by whether their price band matches what you asked for. What a hotel pays is not one of the inputs.
• The order of hotels in a listing does not depend on commission.
• Which places we write about, and what we say about them, is an editorial decision. No booking partner has any say in it.
• We do not accept payment from a hotel to be recommended. Paid placements exist only as clearly labelled sponsor logos, and those are never mixed into hotel recommendations.

Once you follow a booking link you are on the partner’s website and their privacy policy applies, not ours. The link tells them which hotel you were looking at and — when you gave us dates and a party size — carries those through so you land on a priced, dated page instead of an empty search form. It carries no name, no email address and no identifier for you.

What we keep about that click is covered in our privacy notice.

If anything here is unclear, or you think a link is not labelled properly, write to [email protected].