About Us

All our tips on 22places are free for you. We plan our trips carefully and pay for them out of our own pockets. Our goal is to make trip planning as easy as possible — so your travels actually become unforgettable.

We fund our work through affiliate links. When you buy or book something through one of our links, we earn a small commission. It doesn’t cost you anything extra, and it’s a simple way to support what we do.

Here’s a list of our most important referral links.

Are there other revenue streams?

Yes!

22places also earns money through:

• Distributions from VG Wort — think of it as something like ASCAP or BMI, but for authors. When an article is read more than 1,500 times, a payment of between 20 and 30 euros goes to the writer or team member who created it.
• Collaborations: Occasionally we publish sponsored articles and receive payment from a company for doing so. Our opinion, however, is never for sale.

Yes — every destination on 22places is one that we or one of our writers has visited and explored in person. Our tips come from real experiences, not desk research. And because we plan and pay for our own trips, we stay independent and can give you genuinely honest recommendations.

We only work with a very small group of companies — and only when we know a product or service firsthand, have actually tested it, and can genuinely stand behind it.

Our recommendations are always independent. If something doesn’t convince us, it won’t appear on our site — regardless of whether money is involved or not.

What matters most to us: our business model works without partnerships. That means we’re not dependent on talking up products, and we can consistently turn down the vast majority of collaboration requests.

Quite a few by now. The number varies month to month — in our best months, it’s up to 1 million readers.

We update our articles regularly. Most posts get reviewed at least once a year, and we refresh things like opening hours, prices, and our picks for hotels, restaurants, and activities.

For major destinations like New York, London, or Paris, we also make additional research trips on a regular basis.

That said, things can always change. If you spot something outdated, we’d love to hear from you — just send us a quick email or drop a comment below the article.

After years of travel and a lot of time “on the road,” we realized: we don’t just want to travel — we want to bring more of what we love about traveling into our everyday lives. Sun, ocean, being outdoors, a slower pace.

A big turning point was also our oldest starting school. We knew: if we were going to make this move, we wanted to do it intentionally — and choose our new home before the school year began. Staying put long-term wasn’t something we wanted, mainly because we were looking for a better quality of life for our family.

Fuerteventura quickly started to feel like home. So that’s where we went.

Bring it on.

If you have a question about a specific destination, it’s worth checking first whether we’ve already covered it. You can use the search bar above, or just Google the destination + 22places — that’ll instantly pull up everything we’ve written about it.

Still have questions after that? Feel free to reach us at hey@22places.de.