How this works
How we check prices
Every price on this site comes from the operator’s own public website and shows the date we last checked it.
- 21
- operators tracked (20 sell a Molokini trip)
- 55
- trips tracked
- 44
- trips that go to Molokini (some only on calm days)
- 34
- prices checked and showing
- 9
- checked by a person
- 0
- pages that refused the program on the last run
Latest check: . The program skips sites that bar robots; a person checks those, among the 9 above.
What gets checked
For each trip we list, we record the lowest adult price printed on the operator’s own public website. Our own boat, Redline, goes through the same check and shows the same kind of price.
How it works
A small program called PriceWatch reads those public pages, the way your browser does, no more than once a day. It waits at least 5 seconds between pages on a site and says who it is: SnorkelMolokiniPriceCheck/1.0.
- It only reads. It never fills in a form, logs in or books anything, and it doesn’t click through booking calendars.
- If a site’s rules say no to robots, or a page turns it away, it stops there. It doesn’t try to get around that. A person checks that trip instead.
- Some prices only appear inside a booking calendar, so a program can’t read them. A person checks those too, or the row says to look on the operator’s site.
What happens when a price changes
A new number on a page we can read clearly updates here at the next rebuild, with the new date. Anything else that changes on an operator’s page, like what’s included or who can come, goes to a person first. Text from another site never appears here on its own.
When a price is too old
If a price has no check inside 14 days, it comes down and the row says “See prices on” that operator’s site. Prices a person checks by hand get 60 days. The check date always shows, so you can judge it yourself.
What a price here means
Operators run sales and change prices by date, so the price you’re quoted may differ. Each price says whether it’s before tax, and the date we checked it. The operator’s own booking page always has the final word.
Many operators sell some dates below their listed price, and that goes for our own boat too.
Spot a wrong price?
Tell us, and we’ll check it and fix what we can confirm. If you run one of these boats and a number is wrong, send us the page that shows the right one.