Affiliate disclosure
Some links on Orlando Compass are affiliate links. If you click one and make a booking or purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you — you pay the same price you would have anyway. This disclosure is provided in line with US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidance.
What an affiliate link actually is
In plain terms: an affiliate link is a normal link to a partner's site that also tells that partner the visit came from Orlando Compass. If you then book with them, they pay us a small referral commission out of their margin — it is not a surcharge added to your price, and you are not charged anything extra for using the link versus going to the same site directly. It is the standard way independent travel guides fund themselves without charging readers or being owned by the companies they write about.
How it affects (and does not affect) our content
Affiliate income funds the site and keeps it free and independent of the theme parks. It does not determine our recommendations: we describe the option we believe is best for the visitor regardless of whether a partner link exists for it, and we routinely recommend choices (and free strategies) that earn us nothing. Where a recommendation has an affiliate link, that is a convenience, not the reason for the recommendation.
Why you can trust the recommendations
Our credibility is the only thing that makes the guide worth reading, so we protect it deliberately: we recommend free strategies (rope drop, off-peak dates, skipping add-ons) that earn us nothing and sometimes reduce what we could earn; we state plainly when something is not worth it or a park does not suit a group; and we never accept payment to change a recommendation. If affiliate incentives ever conflicted with honest advice, the advice wins — a guide that steers readers wrong for commission is worthless, and we treat it that way.
What partners may be involved
Affiliate links may go to travel partners such as accommodation, ticket, tour, car-rental and travel-aggregator providers. Outbound affiliate links are marked so search engines treat them appropriately (rel="sponsored"), and a brief disclosure appears with prominent calls to action. Orlando Compass is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, LEGOLAND or their parent companies.
How links are labelled on the site
We aim to make the commercial relationship visible rather than hidden. Outbound partner links carry the rel="sponsored" attribute (the standard signal to search engines), a short plain-language disclosure accompanies prominent booking calls to action, and this dedicated page explains the arrangement in full. You are always free to ignore the links entirely and book direct with the park, hotel or provider — the guidance on the site is the same either way, and nothing on the site is gated behind using an affiliate link.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, contact us via the contact page. See also our privacy policy for how affiliate and analytics cookies are handled, and the about page for our independence policy.