Affiliate Disclosure
Here is the money question answered directly. Free Things To Do In Brussels lists 15 free walking tours, and not one of them is operated by this site. Each walk belongs to an independent local guide or tour company and is reserved on GuruWalk or on freetour.com, never through these pages. The site itself sells nothing and runs nothing. Below is the single way it earns, and the limits on that earning.
How This Site Earns
Affiliate commission is the whole of it. If a reader claims a free spot on a walk after following a link from this site, whether that lands on the guide's GuruWalk page or on a freetour.com listing, the platform pays this site a commission for the referral. The reader's own cost does not change. Every walk in the directory is free, pay what you want, and any tip is chosen freely at the end.
That commission is the only income this site receives. A walk appears in these pages because it exists on GuruWalk or freetour.com and can be reserved there, not because a guide or operator paid for its position. Nothing here is sold, and no other booking platform is linked.
No fee, surcharge or subscription is added on the visitor's side of any link. Booking a place means claiming a free spot on GuruWalk, on the guide's own page, or on the freetour.com listing, and the walk itself is free, pay what you want. Any commission earned is paid by the platform to this site. Nothing is ever added to what a walker chooses to give.
What Runs Here, And What Does Not
No tour listed here is operated by this site, no guide is on its payroll, and no payment ever passes through it. The walks belong to independent local guides and tour companies, each published on GuruWalk or freetour.com, each free to reserve, with the tip decided by the walker at the end. A reservation made via a link on these pages can earn the site a commission from the platform that hosts the walk. Since free, pay what you want is the price, the walker's cost is the same either way.
What Commission Cannot Buy Here
- A guide or operator cannot pay for a higher spot. No guide or operator pays this site to be listed; referral commission is its only income.
- Referral commission is this site's only income. Every rating shown is taken from GuruWalk or freetour.com and printed on its own scale, unaltered.
- No guide or operator pays for a listing here; commission is this site's only income.
- A score shown here is copied from the walk's own page on GuruWalk or freetour.com, down to the last decimal, and nothing is nudged upward.
Where Each Number Comes From
The numbers on this site belong to the walks, not to this site. A rating is the score a walk holds on GuruWalk or freetour.com, shown exactly as the guide's page shows it. The scales differ: GuruWalk rates out of 5 and freetour.com rates out of 10, so a 4.7 and a 9.3 measure different things and are never converted to match. Review totals sit beside each walk exactly as GuruWalk or freetour.com counts them, with no rounding either way.