Affiliate Disclosure

Oahu Travel Guide is an independent site. When you book a tour through certain links here, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That is the whole business model, and this page explains exactly how it works.

Which Links Are Affiliate Links

Some links on this site are affiliate links. They point to the live listing for each tour on the booking platform that sells it, and to travel-booking partners behind the car-rental, transfer, insurance, eSIM, luggage-storage and stay pages. If you book through one of those links, the platform pays us a commission on the sale. The price you pay is the same either way. Not every link earns: many point to official operator sites, ferry operators and public information, and those pay nothing at all.

What We Earn Nothing On

A large share of what this guide recommends earns nothing at all. A morning on Waikīkī Beach, the walk out to Makapuʻu Point, an afternoon wandering Chinatown: none of these carry a link, because none of them sell anything. They sit on the same pages as the paid tours, in the same lists, because they belong there.

What The Arrangement Does Not Change

The money does not buy placement. Every tour on this site was selected by the editor who writes the guides, working from the published listings, not by a sales desk or an operator. No operator has paid to be included, and none can pay to move up a list. Ratings and review counts shown alongside each tour are the booking platform's own published figures, reproduced exactly, and they appear only where they are real. If a tour looks weak next to its competitors, the page says so, commission or no commission.

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