Affiliate Disclosure

We plan to make our money from commission. Once we have joined their programmes, Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda and Hotels.com will pay us a share of what they earn when you click through from here and book with them. You pay what you would pay by going to that booking site directly — it pays the commission out of its own profit, not out of your pocket. We take no payment from you, we hold no rooms, and no booking is ever completed here. A hotel's own website is a different matter, and we come back to it in what we compare, and what we don't.

Today, nobody pays us anything. We have joined no affiliate programme — that is the agreement which lets a booking site pay us commission for a booking that started here. Our outbound links carry no tracking, no booking is credited to us, and we have received no commission. That is the model this site is built for, not money currently changing hands. When it changes, it will be written here first.

We sell no advertising space and take no payment from any accommodation provider. Thailandka is operated by to be supplied: registered company name, a company registered in Thailand; the full identity details are on our legal notice and contact page. None of the four booking sites owns or controls that company. Whether anyone with an interest in this business holds shares in Booking Holdings, Expedia Group or Agoda is a question we answer here in full before this site leaves preview, and if the answer is anything but no, it will be stated here.

No. No booking site can pay Thailandka for a higher position, for better placement, to be shown as the recommended option, or to carry the Best price badge — and we do not sell placement. Today the link that takes you to a booking site carries no tracking code, and our own systems record no clicks. There is nothing about money anywhere near the ranking, and today there is nothing that could get there even in principle.

Commission does affect one thing, and we say so plainly further down: it is why these four booking sites are the ones we compare at all. See what we compare, and what we don't.

Two things are easy to blur, so we will separate them. Earning a commission when you book is one thing; being paid for a position in a list is another. We plan to do the first. We do not do the second. Once we join the programmes we will earn more from some booking sites than from others, and that difference still will not change the order of results.

That is a promise. Here is what we would do if it ever stopped being true. Every result affected by a payment would be labelled on the result itself — visible, next to the price, in the language you are reading. And we would rewrite How we rank results before the change went live, not after. A sentence on a policy page would not be enough.

Our default order is called Recommended. Three things decide it and nothing else does. They are listed here in order of importance, with what each one contributes.

Nothing else enters the calculation — not commission, not which booking site an offer comes from, not anything about you. The Recommended order is the same for every visitor. It is not personalised, uses no information about you or your device, and is not paid for.

You can also change the order yourself. Every results page offers these sorts:

• Lowest price — cheapest first, using the lowest price we list for each property.
• Guest rating — highest rating first, and nothing else: the number of reviews and the price gap are ignored.
• Biggest savings — the properties where the booking sites disagree most about the price, largest gap first.
• Recommended — the default described above.

One thing you should know while the site is in preview: the ratings, review counts and prices this calculation runs on are sample data used while we build, not real guest reviews and not real prices. The parameters above are exactly the ones applied; the numbers fed into them are not yet real. Offers from all four booking sites are treated the same way, and none is given more prominence for a commercial reason.

We show the same fields for every property. Within a property we show every offer we have for it, cheapest first, with the name of the booking site written next to every price — always visible, never hidden behind a tooltip.

Today each booking site has one made-up nightly price per property. It is not tied to the dates you picked — the dates in the search box do not yet change any price — and not to a room type or a rate plan, so the offers we place side by side are not yet strictly the same thing against the same thing. The card shows whether the cheapest offer can be cancelled free, but we do not yet show the conditions offer by offer, so a cheaper offer here could carry stricter ones. When real prices arrive we will compare a price only against another for the same dates, a comparable room type and comparable conditions, and mark on the card where offers differ in something that matters. We will not publish real prices without that.

Where the offers we show for a property differ, we show a Save X% badge. It compares the highest and the lowest of the prices we ourselves list for that property, and nothing else: not a market price, not a past price, not a rack rate. The same figure earns the small capped bonus in the Recommended order described above. The Best price badge means one thing too, and only that thing: the cheapest of the two to four offers we list for that property.

What we never do is present a higher price as a discount. No struck-through prices, no "% off" styling on a comparison between booking sites, no countdown timers, no messages saying only two rooms are left, and no other device meant to hurry you.

We compare offers from Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda and Hotels.com. That is the complete set. We do not cover every booking site, and we do not cover hotels' own websites. A hotel's own site can be cheaper than anything we show. Since December 2024 the big booking sites no longer require hotels in Europe to match their prices everywhere, so this happens more often than it used to. We cover accommodation in Thailand only, and we do not promise that a price here is the lowest available anywhere.

Not every booking site lists every property, so a property will often show two or three prices rather than four. Everything we work out for it — the cheapest price, the savings figure, the ordering bonus — uses only the prices we actually list, and the card says how many that is.

One thing is worth being blunt about: we chose those four sites because they are the ones we expect to earn commission from. The set we compare is itself commercially chosen, even though the order within it is not.

When you tap a booking site's button you pass through an address on our own site — one that looks like /out/booking — and are immediately forwarded onward. Today that step adds no affiliate parameters to the link, and our application writes no click-tracking record of it.

It is still a page request like any other, so it appears in our hosting provider's access logs alongside your IP address and browser, exactly as every other page you open here does. What the link carries is the property you were looking at — never your name, e-mail address, telephone number, payment details or any account identifier, because there is no account here and we have none of those things. Your browser also tells the booking site that you came from thailandka.com, which is what every link on the web does. What we do with data about your visit is in our privacy policy.

When we join the programmes, that link will carry a reference identifying Thailandka as the source of the visit, and we will count clicks to see which comparisons are useful. We will update this page and what changes when we add affiliate tracking before that starts — never afterwards.

Thailandka is an independent comparison site. We are not owned by, endorsed by, authorised by or acting on behalf of Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda or Hotels.com, and we are not an official partner of any of them. We use their names only to identify which booking site an offer comes from; their trade marks belong to them — see trade marks and third-party brands.

We have not joined any affiliate programme yet. One thing short of that is worth saying plainly: we have started signing up to Agoda's, and this site serves a small file Agoda asks for so they can check we control the domain. No agreement is live, no link here carries an Agoda code, and nothing has been paid.

When we join a programme we will name it here: which programmes are live, which company we signed with, and the date each one started — a thing you can check rather than take on trust. Each programme has its own terms and we will be bound by them, and some standard terms ask for favourable ranking or display treatment. We will not agree to any term that changes the order the parameters above produce. If we ever did, the affected results would be labelled on the result itself and this page rewritten before the change shipped.

A legal page is an explanation, not a disclosure. The disclosure has to reach you where you are deciding something, so we commit to showing it:

• As ordinary text in the results header, above the first result — not below it, and not behind a tooltip.
• On every property page, in the comparison box, directly under the button that takes you to the booking site. The price bar that follows you down the page on a phone does not carry it yet; it will.
• Next to the button that changes the order of results, as a link reading "How these results are ordered". It takes you straight to How we rank results.
• In the body text of any page that publishes structured data about prices or a list of properties, so that a search result or an assistant's answer carries the disclosure with it instead of leaving it behind on our site.
• At the top of any guide or article that links to a booking site — but only once commission actually starts flowing.
• In the language you are reading. Those short notices are translated into all seven of our languages, unlike this longer page.

The timing condition on the guides is deliberate: labelling a page as a paid promotion while nobody is paying us would itself be untrue.

The notices use plain money language, not jargon. Today they say that a booking site is to pay us a commission if you book, that nothing is paid to us today, and that commission will never change your price or the order of results. From the day the first programme goes live they will say instead that we earn a commission if you book and that your price is the same, and they will carry a plain advertising marker as well — in all seven of our languages, not only for some readers. We never use "affiliate link" or "commissionable link" as the disclosure itself, and we never label a disclosure link "Disclosure", "Details", "Legal", an asterisk or an icon.

Today every price, rating and review count on this site is sample data invented while we build. No booking site has sent us a price, nothing here is bookable, and we show no availability at all — the full statement is in this site is in preview.

What follows is the standard we hold ourselves to, and how prices will work when real ones arrive. A price will then be an estimate: the price we last received from that booking site, not a live quote. The price that binds is the one on the booking site's own checkout page at the moment you book. Availability, when we show any, will be availability at that booking site rather than at the property overall. What a price includes, how currencies are converted and where ratings come from are set out in prices and what a listing means.

The English version is the one that counts. Translations are provided for convenience; if a translation and the English differ, the English governs. The short notices described above are a separate matter: they are part of the product, and appear in the language you are browsing in.

If something here is unclear, or you think a disclosure on the site is missing or wrongly worded, tell us. Please say which page you were on and what you saw. Advertising and affiliate questions says which address to write to.

9 September 2026 — version 1.0

First published version. Written before any affiliate programme was joined and before any commission was received.

Each new version is posted with its own date. We keep the version any new one replaces — ask at to be supplied: general contact address and we will send an earlier version as it stood, with the dates between which it applied. Two changes will be recorded here rather than made quietly: joining a programme, and any change to how results are ordered.