BestKindStays.ca

For short-term rental owners in Newfoundland and Labrador

Your own booking page, beside Airbnb.

Your Airbnb listing stays as it is. Guests who find you on the province's tourism website, Google or Facebook book and pay you directly, and you pay us nothing until one of them does.

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What goes to Airbnb with every Book Now

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What changes with your own page

TodayWith your page
Where Book Now leadsOn the province's listing, Book Now goes to Airbnb.The same Book Now goes to your own page.
What you keep of a $700 stay$591.50, after Airbnb's 15.5%$641.36, after the card fee and our fee, $35 on this stay If you pay Airbnb about 3% on the older split fee, your own page comes out about even, so our fee on those stays is $0 or close to it. Our fee is worked out against what Airbnb takes from you, or against Airbnb’s 15.5% if you are not on Airbnb. It is at most $35 a stay, never more than half of what that stay saves you against Airbnb, and never more than $155 a month for one property.
Next summer, the same familyYou never had their email. Next summer, the fee comes off again.Their email is yours. Next summer you can write to them yourself.
If a guest damages the placeAirbnb's damage program, on Airbnb's terms.Your insurance and the guest's agreement. Your page takes no deposit.

The card fee, as with any card payment: 2.9% plus 30¢ on the total with tax, more on cards from outside Canada. The guest pays no more on your page, as long as your nightly price is the same as on Airbnb.

Your Airbnb listing stays as it is. Your page checks your Airbnb calendar again before it confirms a booking.

An example booking page for Salt Kettle Cabin, a made-up cabin: its picture, name and a Check dates buttonAn example pageSalt Kettle Cabin, a made-up cabin near BonavistaPick dates and see the price as a guest would. No payment is taken on the example.See it → Further down the example page: a map of the drive from Gander International Airport to Cape Bonavista, with tabs for Deer Lake, St. John's and more, from From the AirportFurther down the same pageGetting here, from every airport and ferryThe measured drive to the town, from From the Airport, our free route guides. Your page gets the same for your town.See it →

Put your page link in three places

Province listingits Book Now button
Googleyour website link
Facebooka post or your page button

Before you decide

What owners ask us first

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Who are you?

Best Kind Stays is a small business with roots in Lewisporte. Call or text 709-500-4401 and you reach a person. We are new, and we say so. You can try an example page, and see your own before you decide anything. The same people run From the Airport, the free route guides for getting around the province, and Print the Place, which is opening to sell prints and cards by Newfoundland and Labrador artists.

Will this change my Airbnb listing?

No. Your listing, your reviews and your prices stay as they are. Your own page sits beside it and takes the guests who find you somewhere else: the province's tourism website, Google, Facebook, past guests.

Could the same night be booked twice?

Your page checks your Airbnb calendar, and Vrbo or Booking.com if you list there too, every five minutes and again before it confirms a booking. It refuses any night already taken. Going the other way, you paste one link of ours into Airbnb's calendar settings, once, so a night booked on your page closes there too. Airbnb reads that link on its own schedule, so for a short while the night can still show open there. If it does, we email you which nights to close, until they are closed.

Where does the guest's money go?

To your own account with Stripe, the company that takes the guest's card and pays it into your bank. The account is in your name, and you open it on Stripe's own pages, with our help. The money never passes through us. We bill our fee each time your fees reach $100, and once more every October 31 for anything left over.

Do you need my Airbnb password?

No, and we never ask for one, and we never sign in to your Airbnb. You copy one calendar link out of Airbnb and paste one of ours back in. We show you each step, or do it with you on the phone.

Will guests really book outside Airbnb?

Only the ones who find you somewhere else: the province's tourism website, Google, Facebook, and guests who stayed before. Airbnb guests carry on booking on Airbnb.

What if no one books?

You pay nothing. Our fee is only on stays booked and paid on your page. No setup fee, and nothing that locks you in.

What if a guest cancels, or damages the place?

You choose your cancellation rules, and the guest agrees to them and to your house rules before paying. A refund goes back from your own Stripe account, since that is where the money is. Your page takes no deposit, so damage is handled as it is for a booking you take by phone: your insurance and the guest's agreement. It is worth asking your insurer whether it covers stays booked direct.

What if I want to stop?

Stop whenever you like: an email to us is enough, and there is no penalty. Once your page is live, its web address is registered in your name, and if you stop, we hand it over to you to keep.

The bigger picture

Where it goes from here

Your booking

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Direct booking, beside Airbnb: about $50 more on a $700 stay at Airbnb's 15.5%.

Your guest list

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When you want it: winter rates worked out with you, and a note to last summer's guests before they plan another trip.

Your region

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From the Airport shows visitors from away the drive to your area, from the airports and ferries they arrive at.

What you get

Your money and your guests stay with you

Have a property manager? They carry on with the cleaning and turnovers, and pay us nothing. Managers, write to [email protected].

Months with no fees

The next owner to go live pays us no fees for 12 months

12 months for the next owner, then 11, then 10, down to 1.

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