Affiliate Disclosure

Almost everything described on these pages earns this site nothing whatsoever. The Angel of the North, Saltwell Park, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and the free museums, the Great North Museum: Hancock among them, appear without any tracking code attached, since none of them sells a thing through these pages. What gets written about is what a visitor can genuinely do for nothing, not what happens to pay a commission.

How This Site Earns Its Keep

John's Geordie Genius and Zoe's Newcastle Uncovered both sit on GuruWalk, and every walk link on this site carries a referral code. When a booking follows one of those links, GuruWalk shares part of its own fee with this site. That is the entire arrangement. The walks themselves cost nothing upfront, pay what you want, and whatever a guest tips John or Zoe at the end goes to the guide alone.

Accommodation links are the second and only other earner, run through the Travelpayouts network on the pages about where to stay. A booking that begins with one of those links earns this site a commission paid from the partner's margin, and the room costs the same whether the link is used or ignored. Beyond these two streams nothing brings in a penny. There are no display adverts, no attraction or guide has paid for coverage, and no reader is charged for anything here.

The only bookable things here are the two pay-what-you-want walks, both run by independent local guides and both listed on GuruWalk, and the free walking tours directory collects them in one place. Referral codes sit inside the links but change nothing on the visitor's side: the walk is still free to reserve and the tip still goes to John or Zoe in full. No display advertising runs on any page, no post has been sponsored, and no position has been bought. If a second network were ever introduced, it would be disclosed here and in the footer before the first link appeared.

The Parts Of A Newcastle Trip That Earn Nothing

Where an attraction charges, the page says so plainly. The Keep and Black Gate at Newcastle Castle cost money to enter, Segedunum Roman Fort charges most adults, and the Life Science Centre appears only for contrast. Those entries earn this site nothing either, and each is labelled paid so nobody turns up expecting a free door.

No guide, museum or hotel has paid for a place here, and none was ever invited to. The two walks sit on these pages because they are the genuine free walks in the city, not because a spot was bought.

What Money Cannot Buy Here

• Walk scores and review totals are GuruWalk's own, quoted on its five-point scale and untouched. Nothing here is inflated, trimmed or quietly dropped to make a walk look better.
• No walk has paid for inclusion. John, Zoe and any agency connected to them have neither bought nor been offered a place on these pages. Each entry stands as its GuruWalk record shows it, with rating and review count deciding prominence rather than cash.
• Events get no commercial treatment. The Hoppings, the Great North Run, the Pride march and the Mela are written up because their free parts cost nothing to attend, never because an organiser paid.
• Nothing here is sponsored, and no venue, hotel or tour operator has paid for a post. Should that ever change, it will be named on this page before anything else.
• Every number on this site traces back to a named source. Walk ratings and review counts come from GuruWalk, which rates out of 5, and entry prices for paid attractions such as Newcastle Castle come from the venues' own published rates. Where a fact could not be checked against an official source, it is left out rather than guessed.

Where Every Figure Comes From

The figures quoted around this site come from a small set of named places. GuruWalk supplies the walk ratings, review counts and durations. Venues supply their own entry prices, so the Newcastle Castle figures are the castle's published rates and the Segedunum figures are the fort's. Anything that could not be traced to an official source is simply not printed.

Nothing on this site carries a price, because both walks are free to reserve and the only money involved is the tip a guest chooses to hand over at the end. The numbers that do appear belong to GuruWalk, which scores walks out of 5. Geordie Genius: Highlights of Newcastle, led by John, stands at 4.86 across 111 reviews. Newcastle Uncovered: From Grand Buildings to the Vampire Rabbit, led by Zoe, stands at 4.83 across 53 reviews. Each runs for two hours. Those two are the complete roster: no third walk, no reserve list, and no other booking platform sits behind any link on these pages.

Booking A Walk Without Passing Through Here

Nothing sold here is ours to sell. The two walks, Geordie Genius run by John and Newcastle Uncovered run by Zoe, live on GuruWalk, and either one can be found and booked there directly without this site playing any part. Every guide to the free attractions stands on its own, and the FAQ does too, so a visitor who ignores every link loses nothing by it.

Anything unclear is better raised before a place is reserved than after. The contact page takes questions on all of it, from how pay-what-you-want tipping works to why one walk carries fewer reviews than the other, and the about page sets out where every figure here comes from. Asking costs nothing, which suits a site built on free things.