Affiliate Disclosure

This affiliate disclosure explains how One Happy Island earns money, who we partner with, and why it never affects what we recommend.

The short version

First, the basics. When you book a hotel, tour, or rental car through links on this site, we may earn a small commission from the booking platform. However, you pay the same price — the commission comes from the platform’s margin, not from you.

In other words, this is how we keep the site free. As a result, it doesn’t change what we recommend.

Affiliate disclosure: programs we participate in

Currently, we earn commissions from the following partners. Furthermore, we clearly mark every page that contains affiliate links to them:

Partner	What we link to	How it works
Viator (TripAdvisor company)	Tours, activities, and experiences in Aruba	Commission on completed tour bookings
Agoda (Booking Holdings company)	Aruba hotels with live rates and availability	Commission on completed hotel stays
Expedia	Aruba hotels and packages	Commission on completed hotel stays
Discovercars	Aruba rental cars	Commission on completed rentals

Additionally, we may add or remove partners over time. Therefore, we keep this page up to date.

How to identify affiliate links

Firstly, we mark affiliate links on this site with rel="sponsored" in the HTML, following Google’s guidelines. Generally, they look like buttons such as “Check Availability,” “Book Now,” “Browse on Viator,” or “Compare Rates.”

If you’d rather avoid affiliate links entirely, here’s what to do:

1. First, navigate directly to Viator.com, Agoda.com, Expedia.com, or Discovercars.com yourself
2. Next, search for the same property or tour there
3. Finally, book without going through our links

Either way, you’ll pay the same price. We just won’t earn anything on it.

How affiliate revenue affects our recommendations

It doesn’t. Specifically:

• Commission rates do not influence rankings on “best of” lists. Instead, the order reflects our honest opinion of which option is best.
• Furthermore, we partner exclusively with no tour operator, hotel, or rental company. Therefore, we’re not “official partners” of anyone.
• Additionally, we don’t accept payment, free stays, or comped experiences in exchange for coverage. Where this has happened (rare), we always say so on the page.
• Moreover, negative reviews stay negative even when we have an affiliate relationship with the platform that lists them. For example, if a hotel on Agoda has terrible reviews, we say so.

For our full standards on this, see our Editorial Policy.

What this means for you, the reader

• First, you’re not paying extra by using our links. The price matches what you’d pay going direct.
• Second, you’re supporting an independent, locally-run site that doesn’t sell ads, doesn’t run pop-ups, and doesn’t write sponsored content.
• Finally, you can choose not to use the links without missing out on any of our content — everything on this site stays free to read regardless of whether you book anything.

Cookies and tracking

Generally, affiliate links use cookies to track that a booking originated from this site. The booking platform — Viator, Agoda, Expedia, or Discovercars — sets these cookies, not us. Additionally, they typically last between 24 hours and 30 days depending on the program.

For details on cookies set on this site directly, see our Privacy Policy.

FTC compliance for our affiliate disclosure

Furthermore, this site complies with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines on disclosure of material connections (16 CFR Part 255). In addition, this affiliate disclosure — combined with notices on pages containing affiliate links — aims to make our financial relationships clear and conspicuous.

EU compliance

Similarly, for visitors from the European Union, we disclose these affiliate relationships in line with the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29/EC). In particular, the clearly-labelled “Book on Agoda” / “Book on Expedia” / “Browse on Viator” buttons constitute commercial communication.

Questions

Finally, if anything on this page is unclear, or you want to ask about our relationship with a specific partner, email hello@onehappyisland.com.

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Last updated: May 2026

We earn a small commission from affiliate links at no extra cost to you. This never affects our recommendations.