Affiliate Disclosure
Freethingstodoindubrovnik.com is an affiliate site, and this page spells out what that means in plain language. Nothing is sold here, no booking fee is charged, and no tour of any kind is operated by the site. Its single source of revenue is a commission that GuruWalk may pay when a reader reserves a walk through a link somewhere on these pages. That payment never adds anything to what a walker gives.
Where The Money Goes
Each walk on these pages is free, pay what you want, and belongs to an independent local guide who publishes it on GuruWalk. Booking happens over on GuruWalk, never on this site. Nothing about a tour is controlled from here: no departure is scheduled, no group is sized, and no guide draws a wage from it. This page exists so the money trail is clear before anything is reserved.
Follow a link here and reserve a spot, and GuruWalk may send a commission back to this site. For you the walk costs nothing either way. What you hand the guide at the end is your call, and no figure is set, hinted at or gathered through these pages. Arriving from here rather than from GuruWalk directly changes nothing about the price.
The free attractions written about across this site, its churches, squares, beaches and viewpoints, carry no links and generate no income. They appear because they cost nothing or come with a condition that is stated openly. Wherever something is paid, the walls ticket, the cable car, a museum, the page says so directly. No guide can purchase a spot, and recommendations here are not for sale.
What That Commission Pays For
The model is simple. Reserve a walk through a card or link on this site and a referral fee may flow back from GuruWalk. It costs you nothing: every walk is free, pay what you want, and the amount you give the guide afterwards is yours alone to settle. GuruWalk pays that fee, and neither the walker nor the guide is billed for it.
Outside those referral fees, nothing is for sale. No booking charge, no membership, no sponsored article and no paid placement exists anywhere here. The site writes about genuinely free things to do in Dubrovnik because that is its whole subject, and the walking tours it points towards cost nothing to join. Reservations sit with the guide on GuruWalk, not in these hands.
What No Payment Can Change
- A walk cannot purchase visibility. Walks sit under the category their theme fits, and no operator payment lifts a walk up a page or pins a badge to it.
- Language outranks money on this site: the walks that run in Spanish stay on their own pages and never reach a card, because a Spanish-language walk does not serve a reader browsing in English.
- No museum, fort or tour operator can buy a placement on any page of this site, and no such arrangement has ever been on the table.
- Walk scores appear exactly as GuruWalk publishes them, always paired with the out-of-5 scale and the review total behind them, never rounded up or trimmed to flatter a guide.
- Free is used with care here. A pay-what-you-want walk carries no hidden charge, and paid sights such as the City Walls ticket are never relabelled free to make the listings look fuller.
How Ratings Are Shown
All 13 walks here run on GuruWalk, and every score printed on this site is the score GuruWalk holds. Ratings there run out of 5, so when Tour by Dubrovnik Local shows 4.92, that means 4.92 out of 5 across 5,844 GuruWalk reviews. The count sits beside the score wherever it appears, because a number means little until you know how many walkers stand behind it.
A walk without enough reviews for a settled average gets different treatment. Hidden Places Most Tours Miss carries 17 GuruWalk reviews and no star average yet, so only the review count is shown here. Every rating and review count comes from GuruWalk itself, with no rounding, borrowing from another walk, or averaging to make a small walk look stronger.
The Guides Own These Tours
No one behind this site has taken these walks, and no one behind it leads one. Each of the 13 free walking tours listed belongs to an independent local guide who published it on GuruWalk, chose its meeting point and runs it in person. This directory points readers to those guides' own pages and plays no part in any departure, route or payment.
Reservations are made on GuruWalk, never here. The walks cost nothing to join and work pay what you want, meaning each walker settles what to hand the guide at the end, and this site stays outside that exchange entirely. When a reader books through a link on these pages, GuruWalk pays the commission. That is the only money involved, and it adds nothing to what the walker or the guide pays.