The short version
One analytics cookie, no advertising cookies, no account, no newsletter. In Europe nothing is set until you press Accept. Elsewhere analytics starts on arrival and you can turn it off in one click from the footer.
Analytics and consent
We use Google Consent Mode v2, and the default it sets depends on where you are. Ad storage, ad user data and ad personalisation are denied for everyone, everywhere, always — we run no advertising and have nothing to personalise.
In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland analytics storage is also denied by default, on every page, before anything else runs. Google Analytics 4 loads only after you click Accept. Rejecting is not a suppressed cookie — the script is never fetched at all.
Everywhere else analytics storage defaults to granted and Google Analytics 4 loads with the page, which is why most visitors never see a banner. You are not stuck with that: Cookie settings in the footer brings the banner back on any page, and Reject stops the script from the next page load onward.
To decide which of the two applies to you, the page asks Cloudflare for your country code and nothing else. That request sets no cookie, carries no identifier, and the answer is kept in your browser for the current tab session only.
The tour partner's availability widget is held to the same line. Outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland — and for anyone who has pressed Accept — the partner's script loads with the page, and it receives your IP address and the page you are on. Inside those countries, before you consent, you get a placeholder instead: the script is fetched only when you click Show live availability, and that click is remembered in your browser as aw-gyg. Refusing analytics never stops you booking a tour.
Cookies and storage
| Name | Type | Set when | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|
aw-consent | localStorage | You choose Accept or Reject | Remembers your choice so the banner stays away | Until you clear site data |
aw-geo | sessionStorage | First page you open | Your two-letter country code, so we ask Cloudflare once instead of on every page | Until you close the tab |
aw-gyg | localStorage | You click Show live availability | Remembers that you let the tour partner's widget load | Until you clear site data |
_ga, _ga_* | Cookie | On arrival outside Europe; after Accept inside it | Google Analytics 4 | Google's default, up to 2 years |
aw-consent, aw-geo and aw-gyg are not cookies and are never sent to a server — they stay in your browser.
Third parties
Booking links and availability widgets belong to GetYourGuide; hotel links belong to Trip.com. Their own privacy policies apply instead of ours from the moment their code runs or you follow a link — that is on page load outside the EEA, the UK and Switzerland and for anyone who accepted, and inside those countries only after you click Show live availability.
Your rights under this privacy policy
Withdraw consent any time with Cookie settings at the bottom of any page — it clears aw-consent and brings the banner straight back, wherever in the world you are. It does not clear aw-gyg: to take back the widget permission, clear this site's data in your browser, which resets all three keys at once. Because we store no account and no identifier of our own, requests for access or erasure of analytics data are handled through Google's own controls.
Questions: [email protected].
Last updated 21 September 2026.