How to List Your Hotel on Holidu

What Do You Need Before You Start?

• Your name, contact information, and property location
• An accurate, detailed description of the property, its rooms, and its layout
• A full amenities list (Wi-Fi, heating, parking, breakfast, and similar)
• Nightly pricing, check-in rules, and cancellation policies
• Current baseline availability to import or enter manually

Photos are not required upfront. Holidu sends its own photographer once your listing goes live, at no cost, in regions where that service runs.

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How Do You List Your Hotel on Holidu? (Step-by-Step Process)

1. Register Your Account

Go directly to the Holidu Host page and click the signup or registration button to create a host profile. Fill out the initial application with your name, contact information, and property location. There is no separate corporate portal to hunt for, this is the single entry point.

2. Configure Your Listing Details

Once your account exists, build your property's listing profile. Enter a detailed description of your rooms, style, and layout, check off every amenity that applies, set nightly pricing and cancellation policies, and import or manually input your current availability calendar.

3. Request Publication

Review your profile data inside the host dashboard, then click "Request Publication" to submit the listing to Holidu's review team. If every field is correct, the team typically verifies the setup and takes the listing live within a few hours, not days.

4. Schedule Free Professional Photography

After the listing is live, take advantage of Holidu's free professional photography service where it is offered. A local photographer visits the property at no charge, which matters on a platform where visual comparison against other listings drives clicks.

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Is There a Faster Path If You Already Use a Channel Manager?

If you already run your inventory through an external PMS or channel manager, you can usually skip the manual dashboard work entirely.

• Direct Channel Sync: activate the Holidu connection from within an existing platform integration, since several channel managers and PMS providers already support it
• Multi-Portal Distribution: listing through Holidu's own internal channel manager can push your property to major partner channels at the same time, while keeping one master calendar

Either route avoids re-entering the same details twice once your property is already live somewhere else.

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What Type of Property Actually Fits on Holidu?

• Best fit today: independent boutique hotels, apart-hotels, holiday homes, and bed-and-breakfasts
• Live regional coverage centers on Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Greece, and the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
• A large hotel group or a property well outside these regions may find Holidu adds limited reach compared to broader OTAs

Confirm current coverage for your specific location before investing setup time. Holidu is expanding, but it is not a global, all-property-types platform the way some larger OTAs are.

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What Does Listing on Holidu Cost?

• A one-time activation fee, typically charged when your first booking comes through rather than at signup
• A commission charged only on confirmed bookings
• No commission and no ongoing cost if a listing produces no bookings

There is no flat monthly subscription fee layered on top. Confirm both the activation fee and the exact commission percentage during onboarding, since published figures vary by market, by how many properties you list, and by your revenue on the platform.

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What Mistakes Should You Avoid?

• Submitting for publication with an incomplete amenities list or vague room descriptions, which slows review
• Skipping the free photography offer and using low-quality self-shot photos instead
• Letting availability drift out of date after connecting through a channel manager, which risks overbookings
• Assuming Holidu automatically lists a property anywhere else without actively enabling Multi-Portal Distribution

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How Do You Keep Holidu in Sync With Your Other Channels?

Once a property is live on Holidu alongside Booking.com, Airbnb, direct bookings, and whatever else is already running, matching rates and availability by hand across every dashboard is the real ongoing work, not the initial signup.

If you are managing Holidu alongside other OTAs and rates or availability are starting to drift, roommaster Channel Manager syncs rates and availability two-way across hundreds of OTAs, including Holidu by name. Update once in your PMS, and every connected channel updates with it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does Holidu verify properties?

Its review team checks the submitted profile data after you click "Request Publication," then takes the listing live, often within a few hours if all fields are complete.

What type of rentals does Holidu offer?

Primarily holiday homes and apartments, alongside independent boutique hotels, apart-hotels, and bed-and-breakfasts in its active European regions.

Is Holidu owned by Booking.com or Expedia?

No. Holidu is an independent company, so listing there does not put your property on Expedia Group or Booking Holdings sites, and those listings do not put you on Holidu.

How do I contact Holidu?

Support is handled through the Holidu Host Portal once an account exists; check the portal's help section for current contact channels.

How do I advertise a holiday home on Holidu?

Complete the same host registration and listing setup described above. There is no separate process for a holiday home versus a small independent property.