Diocletian's Doorstep

How This Site Makes Money

Affiliate commission on some outbound links, paid by the operator, never by you — and it buys nobody a place here.

  1. Golden Gate
  2. Peristyle
  3. Vestibule
  4. Cellars
  5. Riva

Ask about a private or group walk

Three short steps. This is an enquiry and not a booking — nothing is held, priced or paid for here, and nothing on this form is a shore excursion, a seat or a ticket. Tell us how many hours you have and what you would like to see, and we read it and answer by email.

Which walk are you asking about *

Pick the closest fit. Choosing one here reserves nothing and commits you to nothing — the route and the price are settled with the operator who runs it.

Anything an operator should know in advance

Optional. Tick anything that applies — access, language, the heat and a fixed finish time are the four that change a route most here.

How to reach you *

A name and an email address are what the form requires, because the reply is written and sent by email. A phone number is optional — leave one if you would rather the operator rang you.

Where this goes: to this site's own inbox, and no further. Nothing is forwarded to a walk operator, nobody is contacted on your behalf, and this form holds no place, quotes no price and takes no order.

Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. Where one appears, the page carrying it says so above the first card, every time, and it cannot be switched off — the notice is generated by looking at the page, not by an editor remembering to tick a box.

What happens when you click one: the link goes to an address on this domain beginning /go/, which checks the destination against a list of sites this guide is allowed to send you to and then forwards you to the operator’s own page. It is a plain redirect. It sends the operator nothing about you — not your name, not your address, not what you typed, not where you came from, not who you are — because it never reads any of that in the first place. If the operator then takes a booking, they pay this site a commission out of their own margin. Your price is the operator’s price either way.

What commission does not buy: a place on this site, a higher place on any page, a mention, or a kinder description. No operator pays to be listed, there is no advertising slot, there is no sponsored tier, and the order the cards appear in is stated in full on the ranking page and has no commercial input in it anywhere. A walk that earns nothing sits above a walk that earns something whenever the stated rules put it there.

What this site never does: it does not take a booking, hold a place, take a payment, take a deposit, confirm a departure or put one price on two different services. Booking and payment happen on the operator’s own site, under the operator’s own terms, and the operator named on each card is the trader you would be contracting with — not this guide.

If a link here is broken, out of date, or goes somewhere other than the walk it describes, the contact form is the way to say so. That is worth more to this site than the commission on it.

Still working out how the Palace fits into the hours you actually have?

Send a question and it goes to the people who actually run the walk — this site refers, it does not operate, and nothing here reserves or confirms anything. If a detail on this page is out of date, that is worth knowing too: say so and it gets checked against the operator rather than quietly left alone.