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 | Viator Partner Program (direct). No traffic minimum stated; approval usually within a few days. 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 | Booking.com closed its direct affiliate programme in mid-2025 and moved publishers to Awin (CJ in some European markets). Join Awin as a publisher, then join the Booking.com programme inside Awin and put the programme's advertiser ID in booking_awinmid; the site then builds Awin deep links automatically. Pays on completed stay, 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, Hostelworld and Discover Cars. Email + password, verify, add bookthefalls.com as a Project; they ask you to install their Drive snippet to prove ownership. Universal mechanic: append marker={your_id} to a partner URL. |
| 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 | Tiqets' own partner portal (not a network). States no visitor or order minimums; content must be travel-focused. Commission is a share of gross margin. Useful for the European falls that sell timed entry (Rhine Falls, Plitvice, Trümmelbach). |
| Discover Cars Car hire | ~70% of their margin | 365 days | Free, self-serve. Your chosen username becomes the affiliate ID. 70% of their car-rental profit, 365-day cookie, paid monthly by PayPal or wire. Self-drive is how most people reach a waterfall, so this matters for Iceland, Norway and the US routes. |
| SafetyWing Travel insurance | 10% recurring | 365 days | Now called the Ambassador programme. Create an account and answer a few questions; no audience minimum stated. 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. |
| Bookshop.org Books | 10% typical for non-bookstore affiliates | 48 hours | Free. Anyone who wants to support independent bookstores can be an affiliate; links carry a= your affiliate ID. US-centric storefront; the site already routes Canadian and UK readers elsewhere. |
| Amazon Associates (.com / .ca / .co.uk) Books | Books ~4.5% | 24 hours | Accounts on amazon.com and amazon.ca already exist for dave@clickshift.ca (opened Sept 2026; US StoreID clickshift-20). bookthefalls.com must be listed under the account's websites before its links are used, and each store needs 3 qualifying sales in 180 days to stay open. The .co.uk store is a separate application. |
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", in line with FTC guidance on affiliate disclosure. Where something can only be booked through an official site — Havasupai permits, for example — we link to that site directly and nowhere else. If you would rather not use them, every operator and property on this site is named, and you can book with them directly.