Direct booking for Ho Chi Minh City vacation-rental hosts
Keep the ~17% that booking platforms take, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in Ho Chi Minh City — with your own branded website.
35,000+
active short-term listings in Ho Chi Minh City
₫1,800,000
average nightly rate for rentals
~17%
lost to OTA fees on every platform stay
Why go direct in Ho Chi Minh City?
Platforms add roughly 14–17% to the guest's total in service fees — and still take a host fee on top. On an average ₫1,800,000 night in Ho Chi Minh City, that is a meaningful slice of your rate handed over with every booking.
Booking via a platform
- Guest pays ~14–17% service fee on top of your rate
- You pay a host fee on each booking
- You don't own the guest relationship or data
- Your listing lives under platform policies
Booking direct
- Guests pay your full rate — no service fee on top
- Zero booking commission for you
- Every guest and stay saved in your own records
- Calendar sync stops double bookings automatically
Your guests pay the same — or less — and you keep the difference. See everything included →
The Ho Chi Minh City market
Ho Chi Minh City's District 1 skyline, food scene and growing tourism make it Vietnam's biggest short-term-rental market, with a large condo base serving international visitors. Hosts here pay OTA commissions on a high volume of bookings. A direct-booking website helps HCMC hosts stand out and keep more of every stay.
Short-term-rental rules
Vietnam regulates short-term rentals through business-registration and tax rules, with enforcement increasing. Requirements change, so always verify the current local rules before listing.
Direct booking in Ho Chi Minh City, answered
The questions Ho Chi Minh City hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Yes, but you must typically hold a business registration and comply with tax rules, and some buildings restrict short stays. Verify the current requirements for your property.
Guests typically pay around 14–17% in service fees on top of the nightly rate, plus a host fee. Direct booking keeps that margin with HCMC hosts.
Generate a branded property website from your listing with Stayolo, connect calendar sync and Stripe, then route repeat guests to your own booking link.
Around ₫1,800,000 per night on average, with District 1 and riverside properties commanding premium rates. Direct booking preserves those rates.
Hosts who took back their bookings
We stopped giving 17% away
“I had no idea how much we were handing to booking platforms until we switched. Now repeat guests book through our own site at our full rate, and the calendar sync means no double bookings.”
Sarah M.
Vacation-rental host · Lisbon, Portugal
Repeat guests now book direct
“The website looked like something a designer would charge thousands for. We send every past guest the direct link and around a third of our stays now come in commission-free.”
James T.
Vacation-rental host · Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Set up in an afternoon
“I expected a nightmare setting up payments and calendars. Stayolo did it all — Stripe, the iCal sync, guest confirmations — and I published my site before dinner.”
Elena R.
Vacation-rental host · Barcelona, Spain
Guests trust it instantly
“The secure checkout and clear policies made my guests comfortable booking directly. It took a season to build momentum, but direct bookings now pay better than any platform stay.”
Marco B.
Vacation-rental host · Tulum, Mexico
Build your Ho Chi Minh City booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the ~17% the platforms take.
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