Direct booking for Tulum vacation-rental hosts
Keep the ~17% that booking platforms take, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in Tulum — with your own branded website.
8,000+
active short-term listings in Tulum
$180
average nightly rate for rentals
~17%
lost to OTA fees on every platform stay
Why go direct in Tulum?
Platforms add roughly 14–17% to the guest's total in service fees — and still take a host fee on top. On an average $180 night in Tulum, 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 Tulum market
Tulum's boho beachfront and jungle-stay scene makes it one of the world's most iconic short-term-rental destinations, with premium pricing year-round. Hosts here pay significant OTA commissions on high-value bookings. A direct-booking website helps Tulum hosts capture repeat guests and keep a larger share of every stay.
Short-term-rental rules
Tulum and the Riviera Maya apply registration and tax rules for short-term rentals, enforced through local and state programs. Rules change, so always verify the current local requirements.
Direct booking in Tulum, answered
The questions Tulum hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Yes, but you must typically register your rental with state and local authorities and comply with tax obligations. Verify the current requirements before listing.
Guests usually pay around 14–17% in service fees on top of the nightly rate, plus a host fee. Direct booking returns that margin to Tulum hosts.
Build a branded property website with Stayolo, connect your calendar and Stripe, and invite past guests and enquirers to book directly through your link.
About $180 per night on average, among the highest in Mexico, with beachfront villas commanding far more. Direct booking lets you hold 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 Tulum booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the ~17% the platforms take.
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