The guest app for owner-run hotels in the Philippines
A QR code in every room opens an app that is entirely yours — your rooms, your tours, your front desk on WhatsApp. Guests book with you instead of the shop down the street, and their name stays on your list, not the booking site’s.
Nothing for guests to download. From ₱1,000 a month.
One subscription, three jobs
Most owner-run hotels here pay for a website nobody updates, print a folder that is wrong by the next price change, and keep no guest list at all. This replaces all three — and you change any of it from your phone, in a minute.
01 · Your website
Your rooms, your photographs, your prices — on a link you can send to anyone, and behind the QR in every room. Edit it on your phone and it is live.
Replaces a builder subscription · a Facebook page you don’t own
02 · Your guest app
The Wi-Fi, check-out, the generator, where to eat, the beach worth the walk — on their phone at two in the morning, in your words, without waking anyone.
Replaces the printed folder · the same five questions at the desk
03 · Your front desk
Every name, email and WhatsApp number in your own Google account — with the console to run it: approve a guest, give a perk, publish a change, ask for a review.
Replaces nothing — you never had one
Why it matters
Right now that is your phone ringing — or a guest walking to the tour shop on the main street to book the trip you could have sold them. With Lakbay the answer is already in their hand, and the booking comes to you.
15–20%
of every room a booking site sends you, gone in commission before the guest arrives.
₱1,300
roughly what every guest spends on an island-hopping day. At your desk, or at someone else’s.
Three nights
you hosted them for — and you cannot email one of them afterwards. The list belongs to the booking site.
What happens after they scan
01
A guest opens your island-hopping day and taps Book with us. It lands on your WhatsApp with the trip already named — not at an agency down the road.
02
The honeymooners, the family who had a bad night. Give one guest a perk by name; it appears in their app and nobody else’s, and the bar redeems it from their phone.
03
Live music, the full-moon dinner, the dive shop you trust. Put it up and it is on the home screen of every guest in the house — nothing to print, nothing to reprint.
04
The beach worth the half-hour walk, where to change money, which boats leave from the front. Written once, by you, with directions — not repeated at the desk all season.
05
Breakfast times, tonight’s menu, the long table on the roof — with your photographs and your words, one tap from the room they are sitting in.
06
One tap asks a departed guest for a Google review, and you keep a record of who you asked. Their email is still yours next low season.
Try it — this is the real app
Type your hotel’s name. Pick a colour, or paste the one from your logo. The phone is the live app your guests would open — tap around in it.
Your colour
Every colour is checked for readability on a phone in daylight — the same check your real app gets.
The side only you see
The same app has a console behind a passcode. No laptop, no training course — if you can post on Facebook, you can run this.
How you get it
One WhatsApp message. I reply with your price and the date I could build it — nothing to pay to ask.
One session: your rooms, photos, tours and colours. In El Nido the island-hopping tours, Nacpan and how the power and water work are already written — you change the parts that are yours.
QR codes printed, your desk walked through it, your guest list in your own Google account. From then on you change anything from your phone.
Pricing
What is one more tour booked at your desk worth to you?
Everyone gets everything; the band sets the price. Your guests will each spend ₱1,200–1,400 on an island-hopping day and ₱700–850 on a van to Puerto Princesa. The only question is whether they book it at your desk or at a shop on the main street — and whatever size you are, this costs under three of those seats a month.
10–19 rooms
₱1,000per month
Less than one island-hopping seat a month, at the ₱1,200–1,400 the tours sell for in town.
Get this20–30 rooms
₱1,500per month
About one island-hopping seat a month. Your guests book several every week.
Get this31–50 rooms
₱2,500per month
About two seats a month — and you have a restaurant and an outlet to sell through as well.
Get this51 rooms and up
₱3,500per month
Under three seats a month, out of the hundreds of boat days your guests will book somewhere.
Get thisEvery feature in every band. No add-ons, no per-guest charge, no commission on what a guest books.
The first two hotels pay a founding rate and keep it for good. I’d rather have two owners who vouch for this than three who paid list. Ask whether it is still open.
Setting it up: ₱18,000, once. Your app in your own colours, a Google account in your name, your content loaded with you, the room QR codes, and a walkthrough with your desk. The same at any size.
Pay yearly and you pay for ten months. ₱10,000, ₱15,000, ₱25,000 or ₱35,000, and nothing to remember each month.
Nothing after that. No hosting bill, no charge per guest, no commission on what a guest books.
Stop whenever you like. One month’s notice, no tie-in — your guest list and content are in your own Google account, and you can export the lot.
You don’t have to take my word for the arithmetic. The console shows, per listing, how many guests opened your island-hopping day and how many went on to message your desk. Check it against your own first month.
One hotel, one app. If you run more than one place, each gets its own — its own colours, its own guest list. Tell me how many and we will work out what that costs.
Before you decide
Better said now than found in week three.
Questions
Who builds it
For owner-run places from about ten rooms up — a beach house, an inn, a small resort — where the person deciding is the person who works the desk. It also runs across an eight-hotel group in Palawan, which is how I know it holds up. I don’t name clients; I’ll introduce you to one when we both want that.
The guest list and the photographs sit in your Google account. I build it; I do not hold it.
One file on your hosting, one script in your own Google account. Nothing of yours lives on my side.
I would rather deliver yours well than sign three and be late for all of them.
What happens next
I’ll reply with your price and when I could build it. No tie-in, one month’s notice, and nothing to pay to ask.