Affiliate Disclosure.

What Affiliate Links Are

The Trip Route publishes destination guides and trip ideas for Australians travelling within Australia. Many pages include links, and a search bar, that open an accommodation search on Booking.com. These are affiliate links: if you follow one and make a qualifying booking, we may earn a commission from Booking.com, paid either directly or through an affiliate network that manages the programme on its behalf.

You pay the same price whether you book through our link or go to Booking.com directly. The commission comes out of Booking.com's side of the transaction and is not added to your rate.

We explain this up front because Australian Consumer Law prohibits misleading conduct, and we think you should know about any commercial relationship before you click.

Compensation and Editorial Standards

Affiliate income helps cover the cost of researching and maintaining our guides, which are free to read. It does not influence which destinations, neighbourhoods or travel ideas we include, and we don't accept payment for favourable coverage. We don't publish hotel reviews, star ratings or rankings, and we avoid made-up prices, fake urgency and invented statistics.

Booking.com Handles Reservations

The Trip Route is not a travel agent or booking platform. When you follow a search link, availability, prices, payment, confirmation, changes and cancellations are handled by Booking.com and the property you choose, under their terms and policies. We can't see or manage your reservation.

The Trip Route is not owned by, operated by or officially endorsed by Booking.com. Booking.com is a separate company that provides accommodation search and reservation services.

How We Label Links

• Accommodation search links point to Booking.com, open in a new tab and are marked with rel="sponsored" attributes.
• Pages and sections that contain affiliate links include a short disclosure near the links.
• Buttons and links describe what they do—for example, "Search stays" or "Check availability"—so it's clear you're leaving our site to search on Booking.com.

How Referrals Are Tracked

Each Booking.com link carries a tracking code: our affiliate ID and a label showing which page the link was on. If the link goes through an affiliate network, it passes briefly through the network's tracking address before Booking.com opens. Booking.com, and the network where one is used, may set cookies on their own websites to record the referral.

The tracking code doesn't identify you. We receive commission reports with booking details such as dates and booking value, but never your name, contact details or payment information. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy have the details.

Prices and Availability

We do not display live rates or availability. Anything shown on Booking.com—including prices, taxes, fees and cancellation terms—can change at any time. Please review the full price and the property's policies before you book.

Changes to Commercial Relationships

If we add or change affiliate partners, we'll update this page and the disclosures on the pages concerned. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last reviewed.

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Questions

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