Entry price at $25, which is the correct way to buy authority you have not yet verified.
Seasonality governs everything here. A placement published three months before the peak season for the destination accumulates internal links, refreshes and round-up mentions; the same article published in the off-season gets crawled and left alone. If the site covers travel insurance, time the pitch to their planning window rather than to yours.
Within the Travel section of the index — 18 listings, 54 median DA, 3.9k median traffic, $30 median price — this placement is 17% below the median on cost and roughly 43% of the index median on audience. Listings in that section range from $20 at the cheap end, so the question is not whether $25 is high for a link, but whether it is high for this one.
Travel publishing is affiliate-driven, so a clean editorial link is both easier to negotiate and more valuable than in most categories: readers trust a recommendation that does not earn the site a commission. Editors in this group like contributions with first-hand detail: the price of the bus, the name of the station, the reason the second hotel is better.
Our observation on this host is do-follow outbound links in editorial content. That is the attribute, not the value: the 56 DA and 2.3k monthly visits are what the attribute is attached to.