stays.letpilot.co is a growing network of commission-free holiday homes. No booking fees. Guest loyalty points. Direct bookings.
Every holiday rental host knows the maths. List on Airbnb and you pay a host fee plus the platform charges the guest a service fee. List on Booking.com and the commission is 15 to 18 percent. By the time all parties have taken their cut, the OTA has claimed a significant slice of every booking you receive.
The answer is direct bookings — guests booking with you directly, without the OTA intermediary. The challenge is distribution: Airbnb and Booking.com have the marketing reach and the search visibility that individual hosts and small management companies simply cannot match on their own.
The Stays Network is a different approach: a curated directory of independent holiday rentals where guests can search, discover, and book directly with hosts — with no commission taken on either side.
The Stays Network at stays.letpilot.co is LetPilot guest-facing booking platform — a searchable directory of holiday properties managed through LetPilot that guests can browse and book directly.
For hosts, it provides visibility: your property is listed on a searchable platform, discoverable by guests who have not found you through any other channel. Zero OTA commission: bookings made via the Stays Network are processed as direct bookings through your own Stripe account — no platform percentage, only the standard Stripe card processing fee. Unified management: bookings from the Stays Network flow directly into LetPilot alongside your other bookings, with no separate calendar to manage. And no additional setup: if you are already using LetPilot, your property data, photos, availability, and pricing are already in the system.
From a guest perspective, the Stays Network is a clean, searchable directory of independent holiday rentals. The guest visits stays.letpilot.co, searches by destination, dates, and party size, browses available properties with photos and descriptions and amenities and nightly rates, selects a property and books directly paying through the host Stripe connection, and receives booking confirmation and a check-in guide from the host via LetPilot.
There is no middleman taking a commission. The full booking value goes directly to the host. The guest pays no additional service fee on top of the accommodation cost.
The Stays Network is not positioned as a replacement for OTAs — it is an additional direct booking channel that runs alongside your existing platforms. Think of it as one more place where guests might discover your property, with the key difference being that bookings from this channel cost you nothing in commission.
A smart distribution strategy for most hosts: OTAs such as Airbnb and Booking.com serve as primary discovery channels, especially for new hosts building a track record and review base. The Stays Network is a growing direct channel with an audience that specifically prefers booking directly. Your own direct booking website powered by LetPilot is your permanent home base with full control. Google Vacation Rentals provides free search discovery. Past guest re-engagement through email and the loyalty programme brings back guests who already trust you.
Each channel serves a different discovery moment. OTAs bring guests who have never heard of you. The Stays Network brings guests who value direct booking. Your own site brings guests who were referred or found you through content or social. Past guest channels bring guests who already know and love your property.
For properties managed through LetPilot, enabling a Stays Network listing takes just a few clicks. Ensure your property profile is complete with photos, description, amenities, and location. Navigate to your property settings in LetPilot. Enable the Stays Network listing option. Review how your property will appear to guests. Confirm and publish.
Your live availability — from your LetPilot calendar, including all OTA imports and direct bookings — is automatically reflected in the Stays Network listing. No separate calendar management is needed.
Your Stays Network listing uses the same pricing as your direct booking website by default. You can optionally set a different rate multiplier for the Stays Network if you want to price it differently.
Since there is no commission to account for, many hosts price the Stays Network at the same rate as their own website — both cheaper than the OTA-commission-inclusive rate. Some hosts offer a small Stays Network discount to incentivise guests to book through this direct channel rather than returning to OTAs.
Guests who book via the Stays Network can participate in LetPilot guest loyalty programme. Points earned from a stay at your property can be redeemed at any other Stays Network property — creating a cross-property loyalty benefit that encourages guests to remain in the Stays Network ecosystem rather than returning to OTAs for future holidays.
For guests, this creates genuine value: their accommodation spend earns them discounts on future holidays across a portfolio of independent properties. For hosts, it drives repeat bookings through the direct channel and creates a reason for guests to choose Stays Network properties over OTA alternatives for subsequent trips.
The Stays Network is particularly attractive to value-conscious travellers who know OTAs charge service fees and prefer to pay less; independent travellers who prefer dealing directly with property owners rather than platforms; repeat short-break bookers who have accumulated loyalty points from previous direct bookings; and guests who are specifically looking for self-catering holiday accommodation rather than hotels or apartments.
As the Stays Network grows its property inventory and guest audience, it becomes progressively more valuable as a discovery channel. Hosts who list early benefit from being part of the platform as it builds its audience.