Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 20 August 2026

Who we work with

We participate in one affiliate programme: Booking.com, through the affiliate network CJ Affiliate. Every accommodation link on this site — the “Check availability” buttons on property pages, the banners on the blog, the promotional cards in the sidebar — leads to Booking.com.

That is the complete list. We are not paid by any hotel, guest house, B&B or self-catering owner on this island, and no property has paid to appear here or to appear higher up a page. Nobody can buy a listing from us, because we do not sell them.

What it means for you

• You pay nothing extra. The price is exactly the same as going to Booking.com directly. Our commission is paid by Booking.com out of its own margin, not added to your bill.
• Deals and loyalty benefits still apply. Any discount, promotion or Genius benefit you would get booking directly, you get booking through us.
• Your booking is with Booking.com and the property, not with us. We are not a booking agent. We take no payment, hold no reservation, and cannot change or cancel one. Their terms, cancellation policy and customer support are what govern your stay.

How this affects what we list — honestly

It would be easy to write “our recommendations are completely independent” here. That would overstate it, so we won't.

Here is the accurate version:

• Our inventory is Booking.com's inventory. The properties on this site are drawn from Booking.com's Isle of Man listings. A guest house that takes bookings only by telephone, or lists solely on another platform, will not appear here — not because we judged it, but because it isn't in the data we work from. If you are choosing between everything the island offers, this site is not a complete map of it.
• Commission does not change the running order. We earn the same rate whichever Booking.com property you choose, so we have no financial reason to push one over another. Properties are ordered by guest rating and review volume, not by what pays.
• Descriptions are ours; scores are not. We write the descriptions and choose which places to feature. The star ratings and review scores come from verified Booking.com guest reviews — we don't write, edit or filter them.
• We publish no prices. Not on any page. We hold no reliable price data, and a stale rate would mislead you into a decision. Rates and availability live on Booking.com, where they are current.

How to spot an affiliate link

You should never have to guess whether a link earns us money. These are the places on this site that do:

• Property pages: the “Check availability” button and any “View on Booking.com” link, each with a disclosure note nearby.
• Blog sidebar: the accommodation banner and the Genius promotional card that appear alongside articles on desktop, both marked “Sponsored”.
• In-article banners: accommodation banners placed inside some blog posts, marked “Sponsored”.
• Location and listing pages: the wide Booking.com Genius banner that appears on town pages, property-type pages and the property index.

Affiliate links also carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", as Google's guidelines require, so search engines can identify them too.

What we record when you click

Affiliate links pass through our own redirect at /api/affiliate/redirect before forwarding you to Booking.com. This exists so we can tell which articles and pages are actually useful. It records:

• which link or banner was clicked, and which page you clicked it from;
• a truncated IP address — the first three parts only, for example 82.131.45 rather than your full address, so it identifies a rough network and not you;
• a coarse device class from your browser's user agent (desktop, mobile, tablet or bot) — not the full user-agent string.

We do not record your full IP address, your name, your email address or any other identifier, and the redirect places no cookie on your device. Traffic identified as automated is filtered out before anything is logged. The Privacy & Cookie Policy covers this in full.

Booking.com will set its own cookies once you arrive on its site, under its own privacy policy. That part is outside our control.

Why we do it this way

Commission is what pays for this site: writing the guides, photographing and describing the places, keeping the listings current, and running the servers. The alternatives were charging readers or filling the pages with advertising, and this seemed the better bargain — you get the guide for nothing, and the cost falls on Booking.com rather than on you.

Standards we follow

This disclosure is written to meet the UK Advertising Standards Authority's CAP Code rules on identifying advertising, the US Federal Trade Commission's guidance on endorsements and affiliate relationships, and the terms of our affiliate agreement with Booking.com via CJ Affiliate.

Questions

If anything above is unclear, or you think we have got a disclosure wrong somewhere on the site, please contact us or email hello@isleofmanstays.co.uk. We would rather fix it.