Affiliate Disclosure
Some links here lead to booking pages that pay us a commission if you reserve a sail. Your price stays the same either way.
Our Commission
This site runs on affiliate links. When a reader clicks from one of our pages to a booking page and reserves a sunset sail, a snorkel trip or a private charter, the reservation platform pays us a small commission. The amount you pay is identical whether you arrive through our link or find the listing on your own. That is the whole arrangement, and it covers the cost of building these comparison pages.
No operator pays for placement, and no catamaran trip in Aruba can buy a higher spot in our comparisons. Rank comes from things travelers can verify on their own: published ratings, review counts, from-prices and what each itinerary includes. Commission rates differ between platforms and operators, and those differences never decide which tour we cover or where it appears on the page.
Where The Money Goes
Book through any link here and the transaction belongs to a third-party reservation platform, not to us. That platform charges your card, sends the confirmation and sets the terms of sale. We never see your payment details, cannot bill you anything, and hold no seats on any catamaran leaving Palm Beach, Noord or Oranjestad.
Money never passes through this site. Reserve a seat on the Dolphin sunset sail or the Palm Pleasure snorkel trip and the transaction runs between you, the booking platform and the local operator. Cancellations, refunds and rescheduling after rough weather are settled on that side, with contact details on the live listing. Our part is editorial: what each cruise includes, who runs it, and how the cancellation terms actually read.
What Stays Fixed
Commission pressure could easily tilt a comparison site toward the expensive boats. We built against that. Every number on these pages, from the $50 Banana Adventure tropical sunset sail up to the $2,500 private charter with rope swing and water slide, shows the listing's from price, a floor that moves with your date, never a firm quote. Affordable cruises keep their ranking whenever their ratings and review volume earn it.
Which Boats We List
- Coverage is not for sale. A cruise appears here only when a booking platform carries it with a published price, usually alongside a rating travelers can check, and stated cancellation terms.
- Open bar, appetizers, snorkel stops, run times: most vessel details come from the listing itself, with a few filled in from the operator's official site where the listing is silent.
- When a platform drops a trip, it comes off this site too.
Questions about commissions, inclusion rules or how the four categories are sorted are welcome, so send them over. We can also point you toward the live booking page for any trip covered here, whether that is the Arusun snorkel sail or a lobster dinner run aboard the Shamwari.