Direct booking for Mexico City vacation-rental hosts
Keep the ~17% that booking platforms take, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in Mexico City — with your own branded website.
40,000+
active short-term listings in Mexico City
$75
average nightly rate for rentals
~17%
lost to OTA fees on every platform stay
Why go direct in Mexico 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 $75 night in Mexico 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 Mexico City market
Mexico City's Roma, Condesa and Polanco districts have made it one of North America's hottest short-term-rental markets, blending design stays with business travel. Hosts here pay OTA commissions on a fast-growing base of listings. A direct-booking website helps CDMX hosts stand out and keep more of every reservation.
Short-term-rental rules
Mexico City requires short-term-rental hosts to register with the local government, and rules for platforms have been evolving. Requirements change, so always verify the current local rules.
Direct booking in Mexico City, answered
The questions Mexico City hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Yes, but you must typically register your short-term rental with the city government and meet municipal requirements. Verify the current process before listing.
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 CDMX hosts.
Use Stayolo to create a branded booking site from your listing, sync your calendar and Stripe, then route repeat guests through your own booking link.
Approximately $75 per night on average, with Roma, Condesa and Polanco 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 Mexico City booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the ~17% the platforms take.
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