How Mezin makes money.
We'd rather have this conversation up front than bury it in a footer link. Here is exactly how the business works, what our incentives are, and what they cost you.
The short version. When you book through links on this site, we may earn a commission from our travel partners — including Booking.com, GetYourGuide, Viator, and others reached via the Travelpayouts network. This never costs you extra. It never influences which options Mez surfaces — our ranking is based on fit to your request, not on commission rate.
Who pays us
Travelpayouts is a travel affiliate network. When you book a hotel through a Mezin link to Booking.com, Booking pays Travelpayouts a referral fee, and Travelpayouts passes a share of that on to us. The same arrangement holds for Hotellook, GetYourGuide, Viator, Tiqets, and the other travel suppliers in the network. The commission comes out of the partner's margin, not your fare.
We may also enter direct affiliate or revenue-share agreements with individual suppliers (for example, a boutique tour operator that isn't in the network). Where we do, we'll disclose the relationship in the relevant recommendation, and the same neutrality rule below applies.
What this means for Mez's recommendations
The ranking model is blind to commission rate. When Mez chooses between two hotels for your trip, the inputs are: your stated budget, your stated travel style, the neighborhood's fit to what you said you wanted, real availability for your dates, current price, the partner's cancellation terms, and aggregated guest ratings — in roughly that order. The commission a partner pays is not a feature in the ranking function.
We've made this an explicit rule because the alternative is the model that runs most of the booking web: surfacing the option that pays the highest margin and calling it a recommendation. We think that's a worse product, and we want Mezin to feel like the opposite.
What you can verify
Mezin shows the same price the partner would show you if you went there directly. You can open Booking.com in another tab, search the same hotel for the same dates, and confirm the price matches. If it ever doesn't, that's a bug — email us and we'll fix it.
Where this shows up
You'll see this affiliate relationship referenced in three places:
- A short notice at the top of each blog post, linking back to this page.
- A one-line disclosure in the site footer on every page.
- Inside the Mez chat itself, when a booking link is generated — the partner is named explicitly.
The FTC bit
In accordance with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR Part 255 (Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising), and equivalent guidance in the UK (CMA), EU (Omnibus Directive), and other jurisdictions, Mezin discloses that it participates in affiliate programs. We have a material connection with the partners listed above — namely, that we may earn a commission on qualifying bookings made through our links.
If we ever change this
If we ever introduce paid placement, sponsored slots, or any other arrangement that could bias what Mez surfaces, we'll say so prominently — not bury it on this page. We don't plan to. But you should hold us to it.
Questions
Email hello@mezin.ai and we'll answer.