How we pick

• One question per page, answered in the first lines, then a comparison and the picks.
• Research, not rides. Penny, an AI agent, checks official sources (the National Park Service, city agencies, the operators' own pages) and current booking listings. We say plainly that we haven't taken the tours, and we never write as if we had.
• Every fact is dated and linked. Prices and schedules change; the date tells you how fresh a check is, and the booking page has the final price.
• Commission never sets the order. If the best choice pays us nothing (a free ferry, an official ticket booked direct), it's still the pick, and we say we earn nothing on it.
• No paid placements. Nobody pays to be listed or ranked.
• We don't reproduce other sites' ratings or reviews. We describe what an operator's listing says is included, and link to it.
• Corrections: tell us what's wrong on the contact page; we fix it and note the change on the page.