Disclosure
How this site makes money
Some links on this page are partner links. If you book through one, Book the Falls may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes what we recommend or the price you pay.
Book the Falls does not hold inventory, take payments or run tours. Every booking link sends you to a marketplace or an operator that does. Some of those partners pay a commission on a completed booking. That commission comes out of their margin — the price you pay is identical whether you arrive through us or type the URL yourself.
What a commission does not buy
No partner pays for placement in an activity list, a ranking or a recommendation. Activities are listed because they operate; properties are listed because they are the ones people actually book. Where the best answer is a local concessionaire with no affiliate programme at all — Tongabezi's Devil's Pool concession, for example — we name them anyway.
Where the links point
| Partner | Commission | Cookie | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viator Tours & adventures | 8% | 30 days | Direct programme, explicitly no traffic or follower minimums. Deep-link grammar is documented and stable: append ?pid=&mcid=&medium=link&campaign= to any live Viator URL. |
| GetYourGuide Tours & adventures | 8% typical | 31 days | Link-based affiliate programme has no stated traffic minimum. The Partner API is hard-gated at 100k monthly visits (1M+ for the reading tier), so build on links and widgets first. |
| Booking.com Accommodation | Up to 4% (sliding) | Session-based | The aid= parameter appends to any property or search URL. Pays on completed stay, not on booking, so revenue lags 1-3 months. |
| Agoda Accommodation | Up to 7% | 30 days | Cleanest documented deep-link format of the accommodation programmes: cid= plus optional hid=, dates and occupancy. Strong inventory in Asia, which matters for the SE Asia falls. |
| Travelpayouts Network — flights, transfers, rail, hostels | Varies by advertiser | 30 days typical | One signup unlocks Aviasales/Skyscanner, Kiwi, 12Go, Omio, GetTransfer, Welcome Pickups and Hostelworld. Universal mechanic: append marker={your_id} to a partner URL, or use the {brand}.tp.st short-link form. |
| Awin Network | Varies by merchant | Varies | Refundable GBP 5 identity deposit is the only barrier. Universal deep link: awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=&awinaffid=&clickref=&p={encoded url}. Carries Rentalcars among others. |
| Tiqets Attraction tickets | ~6% | 30 days | States no visitor or order minimums. Useful for the European falls that sell timed entry (Rhine Falls, Plitvice, Trümmelbach). |
| Discover Cars Car hire | ~70% of their margin | 365 days | Long cookie and self-drive is how most people actually reach a waterfall. Worth prioritising over the transfer programmes for the Iceland, Norway and US routes. |
| SafetyWing Travel insurance | 10% recurring | 365 days | Easiest insurance programme to get into with no audience, and adventure activities are a natural insurance trigger. |
| CJ Affiliate Network | Varies | Varies | Strictest network for a brand-new site. Revisit once there is a few months of organic traffic. |
| Rome2Rio Transport research | None | n/a | Not an affiliate programme — their 'advertise' offer is B2B placement that publishers pay for. Use it as a free, genuinely useful outbound 'how do I get there' link and monetise the trip elsewhere. |
Commission rates and cookie windows are the published figures at the time of writing and change without notice.
Disclosure
Partner links are marked at the point of use and carry rel="sponsored" once tracking IDs are live, in line with FTC guidance on affiliate disclosure. If you would rather not use them, every operator and property on this site is named, and you can book with them directly.