15–18% on every booking
Booking.com takes a cut of every night it brings you. Every year, forever.
FOR HOTELS AND SHORT-STAY PROPERTIES
How much do you handBooking.com every year?
Websites for hotels and short-stay properties that bring in direct bookings — and cut the commission you pay Booking.com.
COMMISSION CALCULATOR
See what the platforms take
Drag the sliders to your own numbers. The result appears straight away — no email required.
Your property in numbers
In Greece this usually sits between 15% and 18%.
You pay roughly
–in platform commission every yearThe detail
- Annual booking revenue
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- Room nights per year
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- Revenue through platforms
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- Commission for every day you are open
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If bookings came direct instead
- 5% of bookings
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- 10% of bookings
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- 20% of bookings
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Money that stays with you every year, not once.
A EUR 1,900 website pays for itself in – months, if just 10% of bookings shift to direct.
See how that comes down
An indicative calculation based on the figures you enter.
Since you opened this page, you have paid
0.00 €in commission.
Counted from the moment the page loaded, against the days you are actually open — not the whole year.THE PROBLEM
Three things that cost you every season
Your site does not close bookings
A visitor cannot book a room on the spot. Either there is no booking button, or it is lost somewhere on the page, or it does not work on a phone.
You do not own your list
A guest who arrived through Booking.com is not your customer. You do not even have their email to invite them back next season.
WHAT WE DO
Three things, done properly
A website that sells rooms
A page per room type, fast, built for the phone first.
- Rates and availability up front
- Photography that loads fast on a phone too
- Copy written for the traveller, not for you
Connected to your booking engine
WebHotelier, primalRES, MotoPress or whatever you already run.
- Date search on the home page
- A real test booking before handover
- You keep your provider — we connect to it
A direct booking strategy
Incentives, a best-rate promise, and an email list for next season. A website on its own is not enough — the guest needs a reason to book with you rather than with the platform.
- Breakfast, late check-out or a transfer for anyone booking direct
- A best-rate promise worded so it does not clash with your platform contracts
- Emails and phone numbers that stay yours
WORK
Three property types
Different needs, different structures. This is not a quality ranking.
AITHRIA Cave Suites
Boutique hotel · Santorini
Fourteen suites carved into the rock. Design with nothing holding it back.
A fictional hotel we designed to show what we can do without constraints. It is not a client.
View project
Finikounda Stays
Independent rentals · Messinia
An English-language site for independent rentals a minute from the water.
View project
Villa of the God
Guesthouse with rooms and a maisonette · Agistri
Two accommodation types under one name, each with its own page.
View projectHOW WE WORK
Fifteen working days, four steps
DAY 1
Strategy call
Sixty minutes. How many rooms, what share comes from platforms, which weeks you need to fill.
DAYS 2–5
Design
You see a finished design before a line of code is written. As many revisions as it takes.
DAYS 6–13
Build
Custom code, no page builders. Booking engine connected, copy written, technical SEO in place.
DAYS 14–15
Testing and handover
A real test booking on desktop and phone. Thirty minutes of training plus a video you keep.
Live in 15 working days
We do not ask you for copy. We write it, optimised for Google. That is why we hand over in 15 days rather than three months.
WHY US
Four reasons, no adjectives
Hotels and short-stay properties only
No online shops, no accountancy websites. We know what a slow season is, what an overbooking costs you, and why the phone matters more than the desktop.
Live in 15 working days
From the strategy call to a real test booking.
We write the copy
We ask nothing of you.
We work with the systems you already have
WebHotelier, primalRES, MotoPress, Amelia. If you already have a booking engine, we connect to it. If you do not, we coordinate with the provider on your behalf.
TESTIMONIALS
What owners say
We had no website at all — we were 100% on Booking.com and the other platforms. Eight months on we have a steady flow of direct enquiries and we have cut our dependence on Booking.com by 35–40%.
The old site was slow on a phone and gave the visitor no reason to get in touch. Enquiries through the form have tripled, pointless phone calls have dropped, and we cut our dependence on Booking.com by 30%.
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