A travel page is only as good as the place its numbers came from, and on Madeira those numbers move: trail fees change, levadas close for works, bus fares change with each year's tariff. Funchal Tours publishes figures, and these are the rules its pages are written to, set down so a reader can hold the site to them.
Where a figure comes from
A figure carries its source and the date it was checked. Wherever the party that sets a fact publishes it, the fact is taken from there: the bus company for its fares, the forest service for its trail fees and closures, the city for the tourist tax, a garden or a museum for its own hours, the meteorological institute for climate normals and the regional statistics office, DREM, for tourism data.
A reseller is not used as the source of a price, an age limit, a permit or a safety rule: those come from the operator or the authority that sets them. Tour and hotel prices are the booking partners' own catalogue prices, written as floors ("from") or as a sample with the dates searched, and with the month they were read.
A fact that moves is written as moving: a season with its months, a closure with the date it was checked, a price with its date. Where a figure cannot be sourced, the sentence states the rule without a number; no figure is invented to complete a sentence. Where two official sources give different figures, the page says so and names both.
An encyclopedia is named, never linked, and used only for measurements of record such as a height or a founding date, when no better source publishes them.
Prices in the guide are written as floors or samples with the month they were read, based on booking partners' catalogue prices.Partner links and corrections
Some pages link to partners that pay a commission, and that is disclosed near the top of each such page and on the affiliate disclosure page. A partner link never decides which fact, which warning or which closure is printed: a closed cave or trail is written as closed whether or not a tour goes there, and the free choice, a city bus or a free levada, is named when it is the better answer. Ratings and review counts are the partners' own, and a product below the quality floor, 3.5 out of 5 with at least 10 reviews for a tour, is not recommended or badged.
Pages carry the date they were last checked, and it changes when the page is edited. A mistake is corrected on the page itself. To report one, write through the contact page with the page and the figure in question, and it is checked against the source before the page is changed. The sources and references page lists the authorities the site cites.
Common questions
Where do the prices come from?
Tour and hotel prices are the booking partners' own catalogue prices, dated; fares, fees and tickets come from the operator or authority that sets them.
Why is a price on the site different from the one at checkout?
Prices move with dates and demand; the price that counts is the one the partner shows at checkout, and the site gives the date its figure was read.
Does a commission change what a page says?
No. Partner links are disclosed, and they do not decide which fact or warning is printed or which product is recommended.
How do I report a mistake?
Use the contact page with the page and the figure; it is checked against the source before anything is changed.