Affiliate disclosure
Nuremberg Guide takes part in the GetYourGuide affiliate programme. If you book a tour through a link here, I may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you. Nothing on this site is a paid placement, and no operator has ever paid to be included.
What this means in practice
The booking links and availability widgets on this site go to GetYourGuide, a licensed online travel agency. If you book after clicking one, GetYourGuide pays me a percentage of the tour price. You pay exactly what you would have paid going to GetYourGuide yourself — the commission comes out of their margin, not out of your fare.
Why the free option is always first
This is the part worth understanding, because it looks like it works against me. Nuremberg has an unusual amount of free and cheap access, and I put it at the top of the page rather than underneath the booking block:
- The rally grounds are open ground. No gate, no ticket, no closing time. The page gives you the tram stop and the walking route before it mentions a tour.
- The Christkindlesmarkt is free to enter. Around a thousand people a month search for tickets that do not exist, and the tickets page exists to tell them so.
- The castle is a state museum sold at the door for single figures. It does not sell out and it does not need booking, and the page says that in its first paragraph.
- The where-to-stay guide describes neighbourhoods and names no properties, so there is nothing on it for me to be paid for at all.
Then, having told you that, I make the case for the guided version where there is one to make — and there often is. A guide on the Zeppelinfeld is the difference between a cold field and the thing it was built to do. A food tour gets you into four places you would not have found and gets you fed. That is a different product from free entry, not a more expensive version of it, and I try to keep the distinction visible rather than let it blur into an upsell. If the free route is right for you, take it. This site still did its job.
How it affects what I recommend
It does not. Tours are chosen on rating, review count, and whether they actually happen in Nuremberg — a number of high-earning products filed under Nuremberg on the affiliate side are day trips that spend most of their day somewhere else, and they are not listed here for that reason. Where a tour has a real weakness I write it down next to the tour. A guide that recommends the wrong thing gets read once.
Questions about any of this? Contact me.