Affiliate disclosure
How Expats HK makes money, which links earn a commission, and what that does and does not influence.
Expats HK earns money from affiliate commissions. If you click certain links and buy something, the seller pays us a percentage. You pay the same price either way: the commission comes out of the seller’s margin, not out of your pocket.
Which links earn a commission
Chiefly serviced apartments and short-let accommodation, insurance, and tours and tickets. This site carries no eSIM or connectivity links. Every outbound commercial link on this site goes through a /go/ redirect and is tagged so browsers and search engines can see it is sponsored. Pages that carry commercial links show a disclosure near those links, not only in the footer, so the notice appears where the decision is made.
What the commission does not buy
It does not buy a ranking, a recommendation, or a place in a comparison. We are not paid to include a provider, and no provider sees a page before it is published. Where we think an option is not worth it, the page says so, including when there is a commission attached to it.
How we choose what to recommend
Areas are compared on the same four measures throughout - rent for a one and a two bedroom, commute to Central in minutes, what you get in square feet, and who it does not suit - so the pages can be read against each other. Where an area is popular for reasons that do not survive scrutiny, the page says which those are.
Programmes we participate in
We work with travel affiliate programmes including eSIM providers, flight search partners and activity marketplaces. The partner is named on the button you click, so you always know where a link leads before you follow it.
Questions
If anything about how this site makes money is unclear, ask: [email protected]. If you would rather we earned nothing from your visit, search for the provider directly instead of using our link. The guides are the same either way.
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