commission
Affiliate disclosure: how halongbaycruise.info earns money
Some links on halongbaycruise.info, the independent guide to Halong Bay, Vietnam, are partner links to GetYourGuide, Viator, Klook, TourRadar and Booking.com (through Stay22). If you follow one and book, the partner may pay the guide a commission, at no extra cost to you: you pay the partner's price and nothing more. Cruises are picked by the bay they sail, the nights on board, what is included and the listed price. No operator pays to be listed or placed higher, and no partner sees or approves a page before it goes live.
partners
The partner programs in use
Every program the guide links today, what its links cover and what the redirect adds to the partner's address. Overnight cruises are compared side by side on the best Halong Bay cruises page, and prices on Halong Bay cruise prices.
| Partner | What its links cover | What the redirect adds |
|---|---|---|
| GetYourGuide | Overnight and day cruises, tours and transfers. | The account id (partner_id) and the campaign tag (cmp). |
| Viator | Overnight and day cruises and tours. | The account ids (pid, mcid) and the campaign tag (campaign). |
| Klook | Cruises, day tours and transfers. | The account id (aid) and the campaign tag (aff_sub). |
| TourRadar | Multi-day cruises and tours from Hanoi. | The account id and the campaign tag (utm_source, utm_campaign). |
| Booking.com, through Stay22 | Hotels and places to stay; the link passes through Stay22 first. | The Stay22 account id (aid) and the campaign tag (campaign). |
links
How a partner link works
- You clickA partner link sits on the name of a cruise, a tour or a hotel. Its address begins with
halongbaycruise.info/go/. - The guide redirectsThe site answers with a redirect to that product on the partner's site and adds two things to the address: the guide's account id with that partner, and a campaign tag.
- The partner countsThe partner sees the account id and the tag, so a booking made in that visit is credited to the guide. The tag names the page the click came from, for example
halongbaycruiseinfo-kayaking.
Every page with partner links says so in a line near the top. In the page code each partner link carries rel="sponsored nofollow", the label search engines ask for on paid links.
Hotel links go through Stay22, a travel affiliate network that works with Booking.com: the guide's account is with Stay22, which passes you on to Booking.com with the same campaign tag, written without hyphens.
When you click a partner link, the site counts the click: which link it was, the page it was on and the country the request came from. Nothing is stored on your device.
What a commission does not change
- How cruises are picked. A cruise, tour or hotel is shown for the bay and route it sails, the nights, the inclusions and the price its listing states. Commission rates play no part, and pages do not rank partners by what they pay.
- Who can pay. No operator, hotel, agency or partner pays to be listed, named or placed higher. No partner sees or approves a page before it goes live.
- Prices. A price on the guide is the partner's own listed price on the date shown beside it. Prices change, and the partner sets them. Sightseeing fees are the official ones, with the council that sets them.
- Official links. Links to the bay authorities, the provinces, operators' own sites and other sources are ordinary links and earn nothing.
- Ads. The guide carries no ads and no sponsored articles today. If that changes, this page will say so from that day.
Cookies and the partner's own terms
halongbaycruise.info sets no cookies, with or without a partner link. Once you are on a partner's site, that partner's own terms, privacy policy and cookie rules apply, as they would if you had gone there yourself. What this site records, and what reaches the partner, is on the privacy page; the rules for using the guide are in the terms of use.
halongbaycruise.info is published and edited by Rainer Lang; who he is and how the guide is made is on the About page. Questions about these links go to info@halongbaycruise.info.
on your own
Booking without a partner link
You never have to use a partner link, and every page reads the same whether you click one or not. To book without one, open the partner's site or the operator's own site in a new tab and search for the cruise, tour or hotel by name; a booking made that way pays the guide nothing. Before you click, point at a link or press and hold it: a partner link shows an address that begins with halongbaycruise.info/go/.