Hotels Above Par · Author Affiliate Program
One working desk for participating HAP authors: your Premium link, product code, ready-to-use promotion copy, disclosure language, channel guidance, and the repeatable habits that make affiliate revenue more than a one-post experiment.
The mechanics are deliberately simple. Premium memberships use your personal link. Eligible digital products use your author code at checkout.
Your personal HAP Premium link sends readers to the normal Hotels Above Par Upgrade page and carries your author attribution in the background.
Commission: 15% on the first qualifying HAP Premium membership transaction attributed to your link. Renewals are not currently commissioned.
There is no special Premium reader discount attached to the author link at this time.
For eligible HAP digital products, give the reader your assigned author code to enter at checkout. The same code can be used across eligible products.
Reader benefit: 5% off when your code is active for that product.
Commission: 15% of qualifying net merchandise revenue after the reader discount and any refunds.
Enter the details HAP assigned you. They stay in this browser only and are used to personalize the copy bank below.
Nothing entered here is submitted to Hotels Above Par. This tool saves your values locally on your own device. You can also arrive with ?name=, ?author=, and ?code= in the URL to prefill the desk.
You can earn on an eligible HAP product even when you did not write it. Recommend the resource that genuinely fits the traveler in front of you.
Stays, restaurants, bars, shops, culture, practical city intel, and the interactive HAP Map.
Neighborhoods, stays, dining, shopping, culture, work spots, and better trip decisions.
Resident-picked recommendations, practical trip planning, and the interactive HAP Map.
When Paris becomes eligible, participating authors can promote it with the same personal HAP product code.
Fill in your Affiliate Desk above and these examples update automatically. Edit them into your own voice before publishing.
The strongest affiliate recommendation still sounds like you. Start with judgment, context, or a real travel problem. Then point to HAP when it actually helps.
Use a real question, frustration, itinerary decision, or story as the reason for the recommendation.
Add your own expertise. A naked link or code is rarely the most persuasive version of the recommendation.
Premium membership equals your personal Premium link. Eligible digital product equals product page plus your author code.
Explain why the resource saves time, sharpens a trip, or gives access to HAP’s reported travel library.
Keep the disclosure close to the recommendation so a normal reader will notice it.
Newsletter · website · Instagram captions and Stories · Facebook · LinkedIn · Threads · X · podcast or video descriptions · destination-planning emails · direct replies when someone asks for a recommendation.
Community: authority first, revenue second. Answer from lived expertise, return to conversations, and recommend a HAP resource only when it belongs there. Do not drop codes into unrelated threads or cold-message members with offers.
“I may earn a commission if you purchase from Hotels Above Par through my link or using my code.”
Your personalized link or code does not replace a clear disclosure that you may earn money from the purchase.
Small enough to repeat. Useful enough to compound.
Pick one eligible HAP resource that genuinely matches your audience this month, then choose one travel problem or angle that makes the recommendation useful.
Schedule one useful promotion, then spend a few minutes in HAP Community answering anything that fits your expertise.
The operational rules authors are most likely to need after onboarding.
Yes. For eligible products, the qualifying commission follows the author code used at checkout, not the product byline.
Yes. Your personal Premium link is designed to be shared in newsletters, websites, social posts, video descriptions, messages, and QR codes. It sends the reader to the normal HAP Upgrade page while carrying your attribution.
Not currently. It uses the normal HAP Upgrade page and normal displayed pricing.
Not under the current program structure. The commission applies to the first qualifying HAP Premium membership transaction attributed to your link.
Product commissions are based on qualifying net merchandise revenue. A full refund eliminates the commission on that sale; later refunds may be reflected as an adjustment.
The product must be live and the author discount must be active for that product. Contact your HAP program contact if an eligible product should be live but your code is not being accepted.