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I have been online with my STR for seven months and have had 2 or 3 bookings come from Booking.com. The guests seem to expect a hotel like experience as far as communication goes, but the guests I have had have been great from Booking.com. My crappy guests (but also the majority of my revenue) have all come from AirBnB.
I'm going to hang in there for a few more weeks and see what happens. I just received my 2nd booking on booking.com yesterday for a one nighter (2 adults, 4 kids)....hopefully they'll be ok. Since Booking.com now has an option to discount rates depending on how many guests stay...I realized that's what happened with my first guest (that left my door wide open after checking out)! They only listed 2 guests to get the cheaper rate. So I've opted out of that option now and even raised my prices $10 more a night compared to my AirBnb rates. I'm hoping this will help filter out the bad ghetto guests.
I have also learned through experience not to be the bargain option among comparable homes. Now I regularly review my prices among my 3-4 direct competitors and adjust my prices to ensure that I am not the lowest priced option whenever I can prevent it. But I also make sure that my property has the most amenities as well, so it's not targeted at the budget shoppers.
I use Hospitable for a channel manager and it supports AirBnB, VRBO, and Booking.com so I have listed on all three. It also allows you to set a percentage differential for pricing between platforms.
Were you able to get the booking.com messaging working on Hospitable? I went through the setup process meticulously like 5 times, and it says everything is fine, support thinks everything is fine, but I don't get any booking.com messages in Hospitable, nor do the automated messages get sent out.
It seems like quite the hack/workaround they have set up with booking.com so I'm wondering if it really works reliably at all.
No I haven't tried Hospitable yet.... or any third party to help yet because I'm not profiting enough. I only have one STR listing so I can manage it myself. I was thinking about using Guesty For Host, if I were to use a third party. That's what Robuilt uses for his. Check it out Ryan.
Hospitable saves me $25 a month in time, so it essentially pays for itself. Same for Pricelabs. These are the only two things I pay for. I self manage, work a full-time w2, and only have one property.
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Quote from @Julie Chai:
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have been online with my STR for seven months and have had 2 or 3
bookings come from Booking.com. The guests seem to expect a hotel like
experience as far as communication goes, but the guests I have had have
been great from Booking.com. My crappy guests (but also the majority of
my revenue) have all come from AirBnB.
I'm going to
hang in there for a few more weeks and see what happens. I just received
my 2nd booking on booking.com yesterday for a one nighter (2 adults, 4
kids)....hopefully they'll be ok. Since Booking.com now has an option
to discount rates depending on how many guests stay...I realized that's
what happened with my first guest (that left my door wide open after
checking out)! They only listed 2 guests to get the cheaper rate. So
I've opted out of that option now and even raised my prices $10 more a
night compared to my AirBnb rates. I'm hoping this will help filter out
the bad ghetto guests.
I have also learned through experience not to be the bargain option
among comparable homes. Now I regularly review my prices among my 3-4
direct competitors and adjust my prices to ensure that I am not the
lowest priced option whenever I can prevent it. But I also make sure
that my property has the most amenities as well, so it's not targeted at
the budget shoppers.
I use Hospitable for a channel manager and
it supports AirBnB, VRBO, and Booking.com so I have listed on all three.
It also allows you to set a percentage differential for pricing between
platforms.
Were you able to get the booking.com messaging working on
Hospitable? I went through the setup process meticulously like 5 times,
and it says everything is fine, support thinks everything is fine, but
I don't get any booking.com messages in Hospitable, nor do the automated
messages get sent out.
It seems like quite the hack/workaround they have set up with booking.com so I'm wondering if it really works reliably at all.
I believe Booking.com messaging works in Hospitable for me, yes. The actual Booking.com site is crap and I have had issues with it, but the integration with Hospitable has not caused me any issue yet.
