Affiliate disclosure
The short version: some links here earn us a commission, you pay the same either way, and nobody pays to be featured.
Which links are affiliate links
Every "Check availability" button, and every in-text link that opens a tour's listing, points to GetYourGuide or Viator and carries our partner tag. If you book after clicking one, the platform pays us a share of the commission it already earns from the operator. Your price is identical to the price you would see going straight to that listing, because our cut comes out of the platform's margin and is never added to your ticket.
Those two platforms are the only affiliate relationships on this site. There are no hotel links, no display advertising, no sponsored posts and no paid reviews. Nothing here earns us money from a guide, a food stall, an artist or the city. If a third network is ever added, this page and the footer line will name it before the first link goes live, not after.
What it does not change
- Inclusion. Every tour that clears the tests, a real guided Comuna 13 experience, genuinely bookable right now by an individual, on a live product page with published departures and figures that survive a second check, gets a card. Thirteen listings were read and 12 are shown. The one held back is a full-day city combo rated 4.7 across 421 reviews whose from-price could not be read cleanly on any channel, and a card with a blank price would be an advertisement rather than a comparison.
- Ordering. No operator can buy a position and none has been offered one. Where a category leads with one tour, that tour is the most-reviewed in its category, a rule you can check yourself against the numbers on the cards. The cable-car page leads with the 10,683-review flagship for that reason and no other.
- What we say about them. The steep stepped alleys make all but one route here unsuitable for a wheelchair or a stroller, and the exception is a $79 private tour, so that sits on the card rather than in small print. Group sizes are printed as the listing states them, including the walk that runs groups of up to 40. Tours that meet you in San Javier rather than including the metro ride say so, because that gap is real money and a real 30 to 40 minutes from El Poblado.
- What we leave out. This site lists guided Comuna 13 tours, so hostels, hotels, salsa classes, day trips to Guatapé and general Medellín sightseeing that never reaches the barrio are off-scope whatever they might be worth to somebody. A listing whose figures cannot be verified on two independent channels does not get a card either, and that rule has already cost this site a whole product.
- Things we earn nothing from. The Comuna 13 escalators are free and there is no entry fee, no ticket and no tourist tax for the barrio itself. A metro ride costs about 4,400 pesos, and one integrated fare covers the Line J cable car. Free tip-based walking tours run daily and pay us zero. All of it still gets its say wherever it beats a paid ticket.
Ratings, review counts and prices
Every rating and review count on this site is the platform's own published number, read off the live listing and then checked a second time on an independent channel before it was printed. Nothing is averaged across platforms, rounded up or invented, and where the two checks disagreed the figure was left off the page rather than smoothed over. The 12 tours carry 27,775 traveller reviews between them, and that total is the sum of the real per-listing counts.
Prices are handled the same way and come with a bigger caveat. What you see is a current from-price, the cheapest option on that tour at the moment the listing was read. Across the lineup those run from $14 for a walking tour with snacks to $119 for a private half-day with a car and driver, and every one of them is priced per person rather than per group. The rate moves with the date, the option you pick, how many of you are booking and the currency your account is set to, so the live listing is always the authority on what you will actually be charged. A price that reads differently in two places usually means the platform is showing you a localized currency, not that the rate changed overnight. Prices are re-pulled on a monthly cycle, and a figure that stops verifying comes off the site rather than sitting there aging.
One more number belongs to somebody else: the tip on a free tour. Travellers report 20,000 to 30,000 pesos per person as the working rate, and that is money handed to a guide in the street, not a price we can quote or verify on a listing.
If you would rather not use our links
Search the operator's name on GetYourGuide or Viator directly, or find the company's own website and book there. Each card carries the tour's own title and, where the listing names one, the operator running it, which is enough to find the same product from a search box. We would genuinely rather you got up the hill. The category pages, the FAQ and the guides work exactly as well as research whether or not you ever click a booking link.
Questions about any of this: email us. How the listings are checked in the first place is on the about page.