Affiliate Disclosure

This site compares Galapagos tours across six categories, from short island-hopping trips to week-long cruises, and it earns money when you book. Follow a link from these pages and the booking platform pays a commission on the completed sale. The price you pay does not move: it is the same figure you would see on the live booking page if you had found the tour yourself. No operator has paid for a listing, and no tour appears here because its commission beats a rival's.

How We Get Paid

Each tour link on this site carries an affiliate tag. Book through one of those links and the platform behind the listing pays this site a share of the sale. The price you pay is the same either way: the tag does not add a cent to a cruise, a land-based hopping package or anything in between. If you read, compare and leave without booking, nothing is earned at all.

The arrangement covers tour booking links and nothing else. No hotel program funds this site, no operator pays for a placement, and no listing is sponsored or written to order. Should a new partner ever be added, this page will say so before the first link goes live, so the disclosure you are reading stays the whole picture. Outside those booking links, nothing here earns a cent.

What Changes When You Book Through A Link

You can skip this site entirely. Fly into Baltra or San Cristobal, book a hotel in Puerto Ayora, and arrange day trips on your own once you arrive. Plenty of travellers do exactly that, and it costs us nothing. What you give up is the side-by-side view: this page puts cruises, island-hopping packages, and diving trips in one place, with prices and trip lengths laid out together, so the trade-offs are easier to weigh before you commit. Either way works. The Galapagos do not require a middleman, only a naturalist guide, which the park makes compulsory on every visitor site.

This page reports what each listing shows rather than steering anyone toward the priciest option. All 50 tours publish a from-price, and those run from $450 per person for a short Santa Cruz bay tour up to $8066 for a week aboard a cruise calling at the northwestern islands. Every figure is priced per person, so the per-group trap that catches readers on some comparison sites does not apply here. Each number comes straight from the live booking page, meaning the figure you see is the figure you can check.

How This Site Earns

• Inclusion. Every trip earns its place by being bookable in the Galapagos, publishing a real from-price, and carrying its rating with the review count shown beside it. Tours with no published reviews are described by itinerary alone, never dressed up as popular. No operator pays to appear here, and nothing on this page is sponsored.
• Ranking. No operator pays for position. The six categories open in a fixed order: cruise packages first, then short island hopping, classic island hopping, extended island hopping, mainland plus Galapagos combinations, and diving packages.
• What we say about them. Thin review samples are never dressed up. One land-based five-day trip carries 56 reviews, several carry only one, and eight tours have no published reviews at all, so each rating appears with its count beside it and you can weigh the difference yourself.
• What stays off the page. Anything that cannot be stated honestly stays off. No fleet size, guide ratio or sea-condition figure appears, because none could be sourced from an official page, and no tour appears here on the strength of a relationship with its operator.
• What the commission does not buy. No operator pays to appear on this site, and no tour can purchase a ranking. Placement reflects itinerary, price and traveller fit, not payment.

Where The Numbers Come From

Ratings and review counts here are the booking platform's own figures, copied across without rounding or averaging. On this roster the ratings run from 3.0 to 5.0, while the counts behind them run from a single review to 56. A 5.0 on one review and a 4.7 across 56 are different kinds of evidence, which is why every star figure sits beside its count. Eight tours publish no reviews at all, and for those we describe the itinerary and leave it there.

From-prices run from $450 to $8066 per person, and the spread has reasons. Duration is one: a three-day island package cannot be priced like a twelve-day mainland-plus-Galapagos trip. Category is another, with small-ship cruises carrying cabin costs and land-based hopping relying on hotels and day boats instead. Every listing prices per person, so there is no per-group figure to misread, and the live booking page flags anything unusual.

How We Handle The Numbers

Every tour listed here can be booked without this site playing any part in the transaction. The operator or the booking platform takes the payment, runs the yacht or the hotel stay, and handles every change you request afterward. Our role stops at comparison: fifty trips across six categories, with prices, durations and review counts lined up side by side, and the booking itself happening on the live listing page. Arrive from there or from the operator directly, and the terms read exactly the same.

Prices and ratings come straight from each live listing. Something look off? Send us a note. How the catalog is built is on the about page.