Affiliate Disclosure

Here is the short version. Some links on these pages are affiliate links, which means a small commission is paid to this site when someone books a tour after clicking one. The cost to you does not change. No tour operator can buy a place in the catalog, and none has paid to appear here. And none of this changes what Palermo itself offers: the markets and the fry counters of the old centre sell to anyone walking up, tour ticket or not.

How This Site Earns

Each tour card and each in-text link to a tour carries a tracking tag that points to a live booking page. Every one of the 22 tours listed here is sold through such a page, never by email or private message. If you book after clicking a tagged link, the booking platform shares part of the commission it already charges the operator. Your price stays the same either way. Whether you arrive through a link on this site or type the listing address in yourself, the number at checkout is identical.

The whole arrangement is simple. The 22 tours on this site are sold through two booking platforms, GetYourGuide and Viator. There is one other commercial relationship: the three hotels in the Where To Stay section on the homepage link to Expedia through Travelpayouts, on the same terms, a commission from the platform and no change to what you pay. Those three are the only hotel links on the site, and no restaurant is linked commercially anywhere. One more link earns the same way: the free walking tour on the free things to do in Palermo guide points to GuruWalk with a referral code. That walk is run by an independent local guide, not by us, and it is pay-what-you-want, so joining costs nothing and whatever you give goes to the guide rather than to this site. There are no display ads, no sponsored posts and no paid placements. If a new partner is ever added, this page and the footer will name it in the same change that ships its first link.

Eating In Palermo Without Paying Us

Sometimes the free route is the better answer. Walking Ballaro or Il Capo on your own, buying panelle at a counter, standing at a bar for a spleen sandwich: none of that sends a cent here, and none of it needs to. The guides cover how to do it.

Inside the catalog, the aim is to report what a listing shows rather than steer anyone upmarket. The 22 tours publish from-prices that run from a modest street-food walk to a half-day cooking class at the top of the range, and that spread is shown as it is. A cheap tour is not hidden to push a dearer one, and a dearer one is not dressed up as the only serious option.

What Never Gets Paid

• Inclusion. A tour earns its place by being real, bookable and honestly described. The 22 listings split across five categories: six street-food walks, four market tours, five cooking classes, four wine and cheese tastings, and three vineyard visits and day trips.
• Ranking. Nobody has bought a higher position, and nobody has been offered the chance. Card order comes from each listing's own published numbers, the rating and review count the operator has earned, not from anything arranged between us and them.
• What we say about them. A thin review sample is never dressed up as a consensus. A tasting with a handful of reviews sits on the same page as a street-food walk with thousands, and each is described with the count it actually has, exactly as published.
• What money cannot buy. A tour earns a spot only if its live listing shows a real from-price and a named operator running it. Offers with no published cost, experiences with an unnamed guide, and anything booked through a chat thread instead of a public page are left out, even when they would have paid this site well.
• Things we earn nothing from. Eating your own way around the markets, walking the old town unguided, taking the bus to Monreale: these pay nothing, and they still get their say. Where a free route beats a paid ticket, the pages here say so.

Prices, Ratings, Review Counts

Every star rating and review count on this site is the figure the live listing publishes at the moment you see it. Numbers are never blended across platforms or averaged between listings. If a tour has a small sample of reviews, it stays a small sample, shown as it is rather than padded or rounded into something steadier.

A from-price is the lowest published starting point for a tour, not a fixed fare. It moves with the date you pick, the option or group size, and any extras added at checkout. That is why every card points to the live listing: the booking page is always the authority on what a tour costs on the day you want it.

Going Direct To The Operator

You can skip every link on this site and book direct with the operator named on each card. Streaty, Do Eat Better, Siciliandays, Tasca D'Almerita and the rest all sell their own tours, and nothing here depends on which route you take. The comparison notes, the price details, the FAQ and the guides read the same whether a link gets clicked or not.

Something on this page unclear? Send a message. The reasoning behind which tours made the cut sits on the about page.