Affiliate disclosure
This site earns a commission on bookings made through its links. If you book a hike or a boat trip through a link or a booking panel on kjeraghike.com, GetYourGuide pays this site a share of what you paid them. You pay exactly the same as you would booking direct: no surcharge, no markup, no code to enter. That is the whole arrangement, and it does not change what I write.
What is and is not an affiliate link
Every link to GetYourGuide on this site carries a partner identifier, and so does every booking panel and every clickable photograph in the gallery on the homepage. Links from one page here to another page here earn nothing. There are no other outbound links on this site at all, so there is nothing else that could be paid for.
Most of Kjerag is not something I can be paid for
This is the part worth reading twice, because it is most of the mountain. The trail is free. No ticket, no permit, no time slot, no booking, no opening hours, nobody collecting anything at the top of the road, and nothing in it for me. I say that on its own page and again on nearly every other page here.
In summer, on an open road and in reasonable weather, a guide is optional, and I say so on do you need a guide even though guided hikes are what pays for this site. If you have a car, the drive from Stavanger through Sirdal and up Fv500 needs nothing from me at all, and getting there describes it without trying to talk you out of it. The Lysefjord ferry from Lauvvik to Lysebotn is run by Kolumbus and I earn nothing from it, which does not stop me putting it on the Stavanger page as the alternative it is.
What the commission does not buy
- No operator sees a page before it is published
- No page here has been commissioned, paid for or edited by anybody selling anything
- Nothing is ordered by commission rate, which I do not look at
- The pages on the reviews hub say when a review count is too small to lean on, when a trip does not go where people think it goes, and when doing it yourself is better
- Ratings and review counts are the published figures noted at my last reading, not numbers I have chosen
- I have told you on the cruise-ship page not to attempt Kjerag on a normal day in port, which is the opposite of selling you the flagship booking
Why I use affiliate links at all
Because the alternatives are worse. Advertising would fill these pages with things I have not chosen. A paywall on a visitor guide to a free mountain walk would be absurd. Sponsorship would put somebody with an interest into the room while I write about their own product. A commission on a booking you were going to make anyway, from a company I otherwise have no dealings with, is the least compromising arrangement I have found. If it ever stops being that, I will say so on this page.
Bookings, payments and problems
I sell nothing and hold nothing. Your contract is with GetYourGuide and the operator, your confirmation comes from them, and changes, cancellations and refunds go through them. If something goes wrong with a booking, their support is the only place that can act on it. Do tell me as well, through the contact page, because it belongs in the review.