Services and pricing
Published prices, three steps. Audit how guests see you, build a brand and site they book direct, then grow it month by month. Projects start at $4,500.
What the research says
50 ms
How long people take to judge a website. The decision comes first. The reading comes after.
Lindgaard et al., Carleton University, 2006
15.5%
What Airbnb now keeps from most hosts on every booking. A $600 night costs you about $93.
Airbnb host fee, 2025 to 2026
22%
Share of hotel bookings coming through OTAs, down from 30% a year earlier. Direct is winning.
State of Distribution 2025, NYU, HEDNA, RateGain
33%
Revenue lift companies report from presenting their brand consistently everywhere.
Lucidpress, State of Brand Consistency, 2019
Every project starts by looking at your place the way a guest does: where their eyes go, whether AI can recommend you, and how much of each booking the platforms keep.
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Free about a minute
Enter your website. See a first-look attention heatmap, whether ChatGPT can recommend you, and where bookings slip away, with a fix list for each.
$450
Night Math: less than one night at $600.
The audit, done by us in person or on a guided video call. We search for your place the way guests do, walk through it, review your brand and listing, run your real fee numbers and hand you a one-page plan. Credited in full if you build within 30 days.
Book the Walk-InA brand and website designed around your place, built on the booking software you already use, with search set up from the first sketch. Fixed price in writing before we start. How Host Direct works
Most hosts start here
$4,500 one-time, 1 or 2 homes
Night Math: pays for itself in about 8 nights at $600.
A custom direct-booking site for vacation rentals, B&Bs and small inns. Live in about 4 to 6 weeks, and the site is yours.
Add-on: Book Direct Print Kit, $1,500. Room cards, welcome book, local guide and QR signage that turn this stay into a direct booking next time.
Book a call$7,500 to $18,000
Night Math: pays for itself in about 13 to 30 nights at $600.
Three to about 40 rentals under one name. One identity, one site, and a page for each place with its own photos, local guide and booking link.
Book a call$8,500 to $20,000
Night Math: pays for itself in about 39 to 91 room-nights at $220.
For hotels, inns and retreats. A new site around your booking engine with a reason to book direct: best-rate promise, direct-only perks, local SEO and free Google hotel booking links. The upper range adds a brand refresh, location pages and guest email flows.
Book a callThe full engagement for owner-run places that need the identity too. We see your place first, then strategy and positioning, an identity system and guidelines, and the website built on it. No templates. Fixed in writing after a 20-minute call.
Night Math: from about 55 room-nights at $220.
See what's includedFrom $12,000
After launch, the work that keeps guests coming back and booking you directly: past-guest emails, seasonal offers and search, with your direct bookings reported every month. Month to month.
For inns and small portfolios
$1,600 / month
Night Math: covered by about 13 direct four-night stays a month at $250.
For inns of 5 to 15 rooms and owners with 2 to 10 homes. One team that keeps returning guests booking you, not the platforms.
$500 / month
Night Math: covered by one night a month at $600.
After any build. Google and AI search upkeep, one new local guide page a quarter, a guest email each season, and a plain-English monthly report.
Book a callFrom $2,500 / month
Night Math: from about 12 room-nights a month at $220.
For boutique hotels, retreats and groups of properties. Content, campaigns, design and search together, scoped on a call.
Book a callMonth one covers an SEO audit, your Google listings, tracking and your past-guest list, so the monthly numbers mean something from the start.
Month to month
The method
A guest feels a place in the time it takes to scroll one photo. The next ten minutes go to finding reasons to agree. We build for that first feeling, using what's known about how people actually choose, not what they say on a survey.
The brand lands before the details do.
The details only your place has, so guests can tell it's you with the logo covered.
One stay becomes the story they tell a friend.
Guests find you before they find a platform: on Google, Maps and AI answers.
“They understood our website needs better than we did, and delivered above and beyond expectations.”
“Kewl Method is the creative force behind every venture I launch.”
“We now have a digital presence that truly reflects our company's mission and vision.”
Addy Award, Gold and Silver, logo and brand identity
A free 20-minute call about how you make money, who you're for and what's in the way.
A written scope and a fixed price before any work starts. No surprises later.
We work in the open. You see it take shape and talk to the people doing the work.
Launch is the start. Training, fixes and, if you want it, monthly care.
Host Direct sites usually go live in 4 to 6 weeks. Brand and hotel projects run longer depending on scope. You get a date before we start.
Yes. It lives in your own account, and there's no platform fee for the site itself.
No. Think of your site as your Second Door. The platforms stay for reach. This is the one you own, and the goal is a bigger share of bookings coming straight to you.
Most likely. We build around Hostaway, OwnerRez, Guesty, Lodgify, Hospitable and common hotel booking engines.
Projects are split into a deposit to start and a final payment at launch. Monthly plans are month to month.
Builds start at $4,500 and monthly plans at $500. Not ready for either? Run the free audit, or book the $450 Walk-In for a one-page plan.
Twenty minutes, free, and you'll leave knowing the next step, even if it isn't us.
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