Your hotel, in your guest’s phone.

How it works

You get the booking, not the agency.

And you keep the guest — their name, their email, their review — instead of handing all three to the site that sent them. Six things your hotel can do from the moment they scan the code in the room.

The tour is booked with you

A guest opens your island hopping trip and taps the Book with us button. It arrives on your WhatsApp with the trip already named — not at an agency down the road.

Tonight’s event, in every room by lunchtime

Friday’s live music, the full-moon dinner, the dive shop you send people to. You put it up and it is on the home screen of every guest in the house — no printing, no reprinting.

A free drink for room 9, and only room 9

The couple on honeymoon, the family who had a bad night. Give that guest a coupon by name and it appears in their app and nobody else’s — redeemed at the bar from their phone, with no voucher to print or keep track of.

Your recommendations, not a stranger’s

The beach worth the half-hour walk, where to change money, which boats leave from the front. Written by you, with directions, once — instead of at the desk, over and over.

Your guests stay yours

Every name, email and WhatsApp number, in your own Google account. One tap asks a departed guest for a review, and the list is still yours next low season.

They stop asking

The Wi-Fi password, check-out, how the generator works, where the hot water comes from. Answered on their phone at two in the morning, without waking anyone.

See it working

Open it on your phone.

Kanlungan, a twenty-eight-room hotel in El Nido — concrete, hardwood and deep eaves. Its rooms, its pool and roof deck, its kitchen, its gifts, and the El Nido a guest actually asks about. The same app you would get. Walk through it as a guest, then as the owner.

Opens the app itself, with a switch between what your guest sees and what you see. No sign-up, no passcode — you land inside both.

The hotel is invented, and nothing you type into it is kept.

What it costs

One app. One price, set by the size of your hotel.

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.

One hotel, one app. It is built around one front desk, one guest list and one person deciding what goes in it. If you run more than one place they do not share an app — each gets its own, in its own colours, with its own guest list. Tell me how many and we will work out what that costs.

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 they are still open.

• You do not have to take my word for the arithmetic. The app shows you, per listing, how many guests opened your island-hopping day and how many went on to message your desk about it. Check this against your own first month.
• 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.
• In El Nido, you do not start from a blank page. The four standard island-hopping tours, Nacpan, the inland day, where to change money, how the power and the water work — already written and already in your app on the day you get it. You change the prices and the parts that are yours. Elsewhere we write it together in the content session.
• 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. Cross a band and I’ll tell you at your renewal, not mid-year.

What it does not do.

Better said now than found in week three.

• It never writes to your booking system, and the Cloudbeds sync is unproven. The sync is built and it only ever reads — it cannot change anything on your side. But no hotel has run it yet, so if you use Cloudbeds yours would be the first and I would set it up with you rather than hand it over. Either way tomorrow’s arrivals can be typed in or pasted from a CSV, which is a minute a day at your size.
• It hands you the guest list, it does not mail it. No campaigns and no automation — the names and the review links are yours, and using them is your job.
• No payments, no chat in the app. Guests message your front desk on WhatsApp. There is no availability calendar and nothing is charged here.
• It is a dark app, on purpose. That is what reads as expensive on a phone in a dim room.
• It does not take your guests’ passports. Checking in before arrival works from the booking you already have — a link, their details filled in, a code for the desk.

Who builds it.

• One person, and one hotel at a time. 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.
• Your data stays yours. The guest list and the photos sit in your Google account. I build it; I do not hold it.
• If I disappear, your app keeps running. One file on your hosting, one script in your own Google account.
• One client at a time. I’d rather deliver yours properly than sign three and be late for all of them.

What happens next

Tell me how many rooms you have.

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.