Affiliate disclosure

Who pays, and for what

Four booking companies carry inventory that overlaps with what this guide covers, and each of them pays a share when a reader follows a marked link from here and goes on to book something: Tiqets, Klook, KKday and WeGoTrip. They are independent businesses. We are an affiliate of theirs and nothing more, which is worth spelling out: this site sells nothing, takes no booking, holds no ticket and never touches your money or your card details. Those all stay between you and whoever you book with.

No other company has any commercial relationship with this site. If you see a name here that is not one of those four, it is being mentioned because it is relevant, not because it is paying.

What it costs you

Nothing at all. The figure you are quoted is the figure you would have been quoted had you typed the partner's address in yourself, and the commission is taken out of what they keep rather than added to what you pay. There is no version of this where clicking a link from here makes your trip more expensive.

How the links are built

• A marked link goes first to Travelpayouts, the network that handles these partnerships, which registers the click and forwards you to the partner's page immediately. That redirect is how a booking made afterwards is attributed to this site.
• Every one of them is tagged for search engines as a paid link and opens in a new tab, so you can see where you are going and get back easily.
• Any page carrying one shows a short notice in plain words directly above the first of them, inside the same panel, so it is read on the way to the link rather than hunted for. It is set a little smaller than the article text around it, and it is never hidden, collapsed, or moved to the foot of the page.
• Each option carries the partner's own picture of the product, loaded from the partner's own servers as the panel comes into view. That is a request to them before you have clicked anything, and the cookie policy sets out exactly what it discloses.
• Where a page recommends something nobody can sell you, a free bay, a public bus, a walk over a headland, it says so plainly instead of leaving you to work it out.

What the commission does not buy

Stated flatly, because hedging it would defeat the purpose:

• It does not buy a mention. No operator, attraction or platform can pay to appear on this site, to appear higher, or to be written about more warmly.
• It does not decide between partners. Where more than one of them sells the same trip, the ordering is driven by what the listings themselves show, and the rate they pay is not part of it.
• It does not buy silence. Asked whether the main attraction is worth it, the front page answers "often not" for a whole category of visitor, and that is the page this site would most like to sell a ticket for. The warning stays where it is.
• It does not manufacture approval. No invented reviews, no star ratings of our own, no testimonials, no visitor counts, no borrowed logos.

Where there is nothing to sell, the page says so

Two of the beach guides on this site carry no booking panel whatsoever. No partner sells a ticket, a tour or a hire at those bays, so the space is left visibly empty with a sentence explaining why, rather than filled with a boat trip from somewhere else and presented as a suggestion. A page that earns nothing is allowed to exist here.

Prices and ratings shown next to the links

Those come from the partners' own listings, they are captioned with the date they were read, and the company they belong to is named beside them. This site hosts no reviews, collects no scores and publishes none of its own, and it deliberately emits no machine readable rating markup for numbers that are somebody else's. Treat every figure as approximate and confirm it on the partner's page before you pay, because the live number is theirs and it moves.

Cookies from all this

Nothing is placed on your device by this site when you click one of these links. The partner may place something on their own address once you arrive, which is how the booking finds its way back to us. The cookie policy sets out the whole picture, including what happens if you accept nothing at all.

Still not the attraction

Earning a commission on a ticket does not make this site part of anything. It has no connection to the operator at Anchor Bay or to any holder of rights in the film, and the about page puts that beyond doubt.

Why you are being told

Because consumer protection rules across the EU, the United Kingdom and the United States require it, because every programme worth joining insists on it in its terms, and because advice from somebody with an undeclared stake in your decision is worth precisely nothing. If you want to know whether one specific link on this site earns anything, ask at admin@whattodoinmalta.com and you will get a straight yes or no.