Affiliate disclosure
Surf Camp Scout earns money through affiliate commissions on some bookings. Discovery, ratings, reviews, and search are free and always will be. This page explains exactly which links pay us, which don't, and what that money can and can't buy — in plain terms (the short version of an FTC disclosure).
Which links earn a commission
Not all of them. A “Check availability” link earns us a commission only when it routes to one of our booking-platform partners — currently BookSurfCamps and Tripaneer. If you book through one of those, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
Many listings instead link directly to the camp's own website. Those are editorial links — we earn nothing from them, and we include them because they're the right destination, not because they pay.
How to tell a sponsored link apart
- On a camp's page, a commissioned “Check availability” link shows a disclosure line and uses
rel="sponsored nofollow"; a direct/editorial link doesn't. - Those booking links route through our own
/go/[camp_id]redirect so we can attribute referrals — it sends you straight on to the camp or partner. - If a destination is a partner booking platform rather than the camp's own site, that's a commissioned link — we never dress a sponsored link up as editorial.
What commission does not buy
- Ranking. Best-of guides and lists are ordered by fit, not by commission.
- Inclusion. Whether a camp is listed at all has nothing to do with whether its link pays us.
- Review suppression. We don't hide negative reviews for camps that earn us more — see our trust & reviews policy.
- Unlabelled placement. If anything is ever sponsored, it's tagged as such.
Sponsored placements (planned, labelled)
We don't run paid placements today. If we ever do, they'll appear as clearly-labelled “Sponsored” cards in side rails or page tops — never woven into an editorial ranked list.