Who publishes this site
Package Trip is published by 4 Life Health Wealth LLC. Gary Thomas is responsible for the editorial. This is an independent comparison and how-to site. It is not Expedia.com, not Orbitz, not Travelocity, not the National Park Service, and not a travel agency.
Bookings you make through outbound links are contracts between you and that company. We do not hold your payment, cannot change a cancellation rule, and cannot “call the hotel” on your behalf.
Material connections (FTC)
We expect to participate in Commission Junction (CJ Affiliate) advertiser programs. If you click a booking button and later complete a qualifying purchase, we may earn a commission. That is a material connection under the FTC’s endorsement guides. A shorter version of this paragraph sits in the header of every page.
Until live CJ click URLs are pasted into lib/affiliates.ts, the /go/ hops point at merchant homepages over HTTPS with rel="sponsored noopener". That is intentional. We will not wrap http:// destinations in a tracker.
Current advertiser programs we applied to:
- Expedia.com — CJ advertiser ID 1874913. Default on Trip Bundle for US flight+hotel or hotel+car searches.
- Orbitz.com — CJ advertiser ID 4861280. Default on Package Trip for packaged US vacations.
- Travelocity.com — CJ advertiser ID 1549809. Default on Family Trip for family hotels and packages, including park gateway towns.
On this site the starting recommendation is Orbitz (CJ 4861280). Publisher-side commission is not a surcharge on your rate. We do not invent sale prices, star scores, or coupon codes to make a click look better.
What the buttons do
Primary calls-to-action use these paths, which Apache can retarget later without rewriting the articles:
- /go/expedia/ → Expedia.com (currently https://www.expedia.com/)
- /go/orbitz/ → Orbitz.com (currently https://www.orbitz.com/)
- /go/travelocity/ → Travelocity.com (currently https://www.travelocity.com/)
Priceline, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Hertz, and Enterprise appear as honest alternatives on sister sites or in comparison tables. Mention is not an affiliate relationship on this site unless a hop is added and this page is updated first.
How we choose defaults
Each site has one default so a traveler is not offered five “winners.” The default is a starting tool, not a claim that it wins every date and city. Methodology lives on How we pick. If a default ever becomes a paid ranking slot, this disclosure will change before the homepage does.
What we are not
- Not official brand sites, partner portals, or “preferred vendors.”
- Not a booking engine. Search happens on the merchant’s site.
- Not insurance, not a tour operator, not the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Sister editorial sites: Park Week (national-park weeks), Book the Stay, Park Stay, Park Car, plus Trip Bundle, Package Trip, and Family Trip on this Expedia Group advertiser cluster.