A direct booking website for homestays & guesthouses
A homestay runs on a personal welcome — and on margins where every commission really hurts. PeakRooms keeps the welcome warm, puts WhatsApp one tap from every guest, and lets you take the booking direct.
A Rp 400,000 night on an OTA pays you Rp 340,000 — Rp 60,000 to commission, at a typical 15%. On your own website it pays you Rp 400,000: 0% commission, on every plan.
Free Starter plan · no card required
The short answer
For a homestay or guesthouse, a direct booking website keeps the personal welcome and protects a thin margin — a 15% OTA commission is a big share of a guesthouse's room rate. PeakRooms gives you a warm, photo-led site with WhatsApp one tap from every guest, so an enquiry becomes a confirmed stay without an OTA in between. Keep it conversational with request-to-book, or add Book & pay card payments, and start free on a real booking website from day one.
The cost of going through an OTA
On a guesthouse's room rate, a 15% OTA commission is a big share of a thin margin. And the impersonal OTA flow is the opposite of the hospitality you actually offer — guests can't just message you the way they would a friend.
What your guests get — and what you keep
Warm and personal, not corporate
A site that feels like your welcome, with your photos and your voice — the first impression you'd want a guest to have.
WhatsApp one tap away
Every guest question goes straight to a chat with you. Request-to-book turns an enquiry into a confirmed stay without an OTA in between.
Take the booking your way
Keep it conversational with request-to-book, or add Book & pay card payments when you want bookings confirmed instantly.
Keep more of a thin margin
No commission on every stay means the rate a guest pays is the rate you keep — which matters most when margins are tight.
Questions homestay and guesthouse owners ask
- I'm not technical — can I really set this up?
- Yes. You answer a short brief about your place and PeakRooms generates the site. There's nothing to code, and you can edit any section by clicking on it.
- Can guests just message me instead of paying online?
- Yes — that's request-to-book. A guest sends an enquiry over WhatsApp and you confirm the stay personally. You can also turn on card payments if you'd like.
- Is there a free plan?
- Yes. The free Starter plan gives you a real booking website with no card required, so you can take direct bookings from day one.
PeakRooms is also built for
Direct booking by country
Direct booking guides
- How to get more direct bookings
- How to reduce OTA commission
- How to beat OTAs on your own hotel name
- Rate parity, explained
- Card payment or request-to-book?
- How WhatsApp booking works for hotels
- Will guests trust booking directly?
- Channel manager or booking website: which do you need?
- How to set room rates for your property
- How to write a hotel cancellation policy
- How to get repeat guests for your hotel
- How to write room descriptions that convert
- How to get your hotel on Google
- What a hotel booking website really costs
Your homestay or guesthouse's booking website, ready in minutes
Answer a short brief and PeakRooms generates a booking website built to bring you direct, commission-free bookings.
Free Starter plan · no card required