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For guest houses and self-catering
Take bookings on your own page, not on somebody else's
A proper page for your guest house, with your rooms, your photographs and your own rates. Guests find you, look around, and tell you when they are coming.
Free for 7 days, no card. From R100 a month after that, cancel any time.
Sound familiar?
What it costs you now
- A guest finds your place through a listing site, and the site keeps a cut of a booking that was always yours.
- Somebody phones at half past nine at night to ask whether you have a room for Friday.
- Your best photographs are on your phone and on a Facebook page nobody scrolls back through.
- A family compares three places in your town and picks the one whose rooms they could actually see.
What you get
This is the page, not a picture of one
Every screen below is the real thing, photographed on a phone.
Your own page, at your own address
Your rooms, your photographs, your rates and your phone number, at a link you can paint on a board. Nobody takes a cut of it and nobody puts a competitor underneath it.
Guests pick their dates and see what is free
Load each room once with what it sleeps and what it costs. A guest chooses their nights, sees what is open, and books the one they want.
The enquiry arrives with the dates already in it
No more working out what somebody means by next weekend. Their nights, how many people, and anything you should know, in one message.
Already set up
Set up for a guest house before you start
Everything here is switched on the moment you say what you do. Take off whatever does not apply to you.
Ticked already, untick what you do not have
- Double rooms
- Family rooms
- Self-catering units
- Private cottages
- En-suite bathrooms
- Breakfast
- Dinner on request
- Braai facilities
- Swimming pool
- Free WiFi
- Secure parking
- Backup power
- Air conditioning
- Laundry service
- Airport and town transfers
- Long-stay and contractor rates
- Small conference or function space
- Pet friendly
- Wheelchair access
- Tours and activities nearby
Switched on for you
- Quote button. Somebody can ask you for a price without phoning you.
- Price list. Your prices where people can see them, so you stop being asked.
- Photo gallery. Your own photographs of your own work, big enough to see properly.
- Stays and Tours. Guests pick their own dates and see what is open.
The design we start you on: Retreat
For guest houses, B&Bs and lodges. The property itself fills the hero, facilities read at a glance, and the whole page takes its time.
Change it for any of the others whenever you like.
Before you start
6 questions, and 4 of them are optional
This is the whole list. Anything you leave blank is simply left off your page.
What we ask you
- NeededWhere are you?
- NeededWhat do guests book?
- OptionalHow many people can you sleep in total?
- OptionalIs breakfast included?
- OptionalWhat are your check-in and check-out times?
- OptionalAre pets or children welcome?
Photographs to have ready
The outside of the place, in good light
The one photo a guest decides on. Take it in the morning or late afternoon, from far enough back to show the whole building and a bit of the garden.
Each type of room or unit you let
One clear photo of each, made up and tidy, curtains open. A guest who cannot see the room they are booking phones somebody who shows theirs.
A bathroom (optional)
Guests look for this and are suspicious when it is missing. It does not need to be styled, it needs to be clean and lit.
The garden, pool, stoep or view (optional)
Whatever makes staying with you different from staying at a motel on the N1.
A real member
Somebody in your trade is already doing this
Mila's Place
Somerset West, Western Cape
Mila's Place is a family-run guest house in Somerset West. The words, the photographs and the house rules on their page are their own.
Look at their pageYour guest house, at your own address
Look at your own page before you pay anything. Nothing to cancel.
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