How we rank
There is no paid preference. No commission, no rank to buy. What decides the order is set out here in full.
What decides the order
- Fit with the search. Place, dates, number of people and bedrooms. Anything not free does not appear once dates are set.
- Distance. If you share a location or select a point on the map, nearer stays appear first. Distance plays no part without a location.
- Saves by signed-in guests. Within the matching results, homes saved more often rank higher. Only signed-in saves count, so one browser cannot create unlimited votes.
- A complete host profile. Homes whose host shows a photo of themselves and the languages they speak rank ahead of homes whose host does not. Nothing else about the profile counts.
- Displayed nightly price. Cheaper stays then rank before more expensive ones. We compare the same final price including the 3.9% cost contribution that guests see on the card.
- Stable order. If homes remain equal, only their technical identifier decides. This stops results jumping randomly between pages.
What plays no part
- Whether bookings have already been paid or how much they were worth.
- Whether a place is also listed on another site.
- How long someone has been with us.
- How many places an owner lists.
- Whether BookNoFees or its operator owns the stay.
What you can do about it
Nothing on this page can be bought. Several of the points above are in your own hands, and none of them takes more than a few minutes.
- Fill in your host profile. A photo of yourself and the languages you speak both count, and a guest who has seen the host gets in touch sooner.
- Photographs a guest wants to save. Saving a home to a wishlist is the one thing on this list that guests themselves decide, and they decide it from the pictures: daylight, the whole room, the view out of the window.
- Name a nightly price. Without one your home cannot take part in the price comparison at all, so it lands behind the homes that have one.
- Keep the calendar current. A week that is already taken stops appearing as soon as a guest sets an arrival and a departure date. An old calendar costs you exactly the guests who already know which week they want.
Example listings
Listings marked as an Example cannot be booked and do not appear in the public accommodation search.
If this changes
Should highlighted placements be introduced, two things apply: they are marked as an Advertisement, and they change nothing about the order of the remaining results. We give hosts 15 days’ notice of any change to these criteria.
Disclosed under Art. 5 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1150.
