About · Disclosure
How this guide is paid for
pulau.my earns a commission when you book a stay or a trip through some of our links. You pay the same price. The commission never decides what we rank, or in what order.
How we earn
Buttons that say “Check rates on” a partner’s name take you to that partner’s site through our own redirect. If you book, the partner pays us a share of its fee. You pay the same price as you would going to the partner directly.
The redirect records the click: the page, the language, the time and a scrambled form of the referring address. It does not record who you are. Those links are marked sponsored for search engines, and every page with booking links says so above the first button.
What never changes
- Tiers, Pick, Good and Listed, are set by an editor and written in words.
- Stays are ordered by tier, then by beach. Commission rates are never part of it.
- Partner buttons look the same and are listed A to Z.
- A stay no partner sells keeps its tier and its place. We link to its own site.
Partners
| Partner | Sells | Linked through |
|---|---|---|
| Trip.com | Stays | Travelpayouts |
| Klook | Trips and activities | Travelpayouts |
| Shopee | Travel gear | Shopee Affiliate |
Travelpayouts is an affiliate network that passes our links to each partner. If a partner later approves us directly, the link changes; these rules do not.
Packages
Many island resorts sell packages of boat, room, meals and snorkelling. We explain packages but do not sell them, and we earn nothing when you book one directly with a resort.
Analytics
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and does not identify you.
Photographs and maps
Island photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences, credited under each picture. Maps are drawn from Natural Earth (public domain), OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and Wikidata (CC0).
Every credit is listed on the photo credits page.