Is Fixed Rate per person, per night, or per room per night?

[Bruce37]

It's not clear to me whether the price I use (I'm not using Smart Price) should be per person per night or per room per night. Anyone know?

[Karen-and-Brian0 · Accepted solution]

@Bruce37 Your place is lovely!! You have it listed as the entire home, so your price should be for the entire home per night. If you'd like to add an additional charge per person, you can do that by going to Calendar > Pricing Settings > Additional Pricing Options > Tick additional guests and add your charge per person with the option to add that charge after a certain # of people. 

If you want to split the rooms up and rent them out separately, you will need to create 2 separate listings and call them "private rooms" rather than "entire house". Hope that helps! - Karen

[Bruce37]

Thanks Karen. I realise that I shouldn't have listed it as the Entire Home, it's just two private rooms in my house. Can you explain how to list the two rooms separately? I've changed it to Private Room, but not sure how to add in the second room.

[Karen-and-Brian0]

@Bruce37  Yes, as @Linda108 said, you'll have to create a new, separate listing for the other room. Give them separate names. Both will appear under your profile, separately. The downside to this is that your place won't show up in a search for a family wanting more than 3 beds - the kind of family that would really love to be able to rent both your rooms at the same time. It's tricky - but up to you which you prefer - to rent both rooms out to the same group (call it "entire home" but specify that you live there as well?) or to rent the 2 rooms to separate groups (as "private rooms"). Best of luck and welcome to Air BNB!

[Nina75]

Bruce just understand that if you List the Entire House guests can  and will bring as many guests as you have listed. If you list a base price then per person. Guests will be charged for every guests that they bring in over your base amount. Depending on the property I have the base number of guests set at per bedroom. So If I have a 4 bedroom house, my base number is 4. If I have a 1 bedroom house, my base number is 1.  But set this up on how comfortable you feel. 

One of my houses supports 14 guests Maximum... but my base is 4 guests. Then I charge $15 per night for all guests over 4. The more guests you bring means the more wear and tear and the more utilities that are used. So just keep this in mind. 

This is not a free for all, UNLESS YOU WANT IT TO BE.

[Linda108]

Hi @Bruce37  If I am understanding you correctly, you want to rent two rooms in your house, not the entire house.  The way to do that is to create two listings, same address but name the rooms to differentiate each listing.  Then you can choose how many people can be in each room and whether travelers can exceed the number with an extra guest charge.

[Beatriz57]

I have the same problem. I have a house with 13 bedrooms that can accomodate from 1 until 30 people, but just for the same group of friends, family or colleagues. It is always the whole house, but the price changes according to the number of people. The price is always per person. Evidently I am not going to publish each bedroom in a different page, because it would not make any sense. And also it is not a hotel os B&B. Why cannot airbnb have a class of whole house which price is calculated per person? Also I have different prices per child and per adult what messes up airbnb auto calculation everytime...It is a very good site to arrange people wanting to rent, but most of the time this problem make them very upset, and sometimes really mad.

[Erick71]

 Beatriz- you got that right - mad - very mad. I am a "guest" and on my mobile, the website apears to show 2 persons per room and a price of $179 per night. Easy right? Wrong. When I check out it defaults to 1 "guest" - seems very misleading as to what the actual price is.  So on a computer the web format is different and the price per night is a little clearer thatn on the mobile. I booked on my phone and got a confirmation, went about my business and 2 days later see I have a message requesting additional funds. 

So the host then request aditional funds for my wife.. i am getting confused as to why, and it escallated the price from $440 + an additional $247! - needless to say we had a bit of sticker shock, and now because of a stick cancelation policy, we can only get a 50% refund on top of that! 

Not being a host, what are the % fees for each additional host? Is it set by the host themselves, or is this an A-B&B standard?  Mad in Dallas 

[Rachel720]

  You are correct in that listing "entire house" for a price per night is misleading if you are charged extra per guest up to the maximum occupancy. I am new to Airbnb and will be now a cautious user. Perhaps some hosts are being crafty with their base occupancy being much lower than is should be and then charging more. 

[Laurence103]

I have the same question! is the price for the room (two people) or per person for B@B? thankyou. None of the replies quite answer the question. 😉

[Donna37]

Price is per room unless you specify it is for 1 person and extra guests are charged additionally under the pricing section of your listing.

[Wendy164]

Could someone please answer the question of the charge being per person or per room.

[Angelique33]

Me too i am confused about that.....

[Linda108]

The answer is in this discussion thread so I am not sure how to help with your confusion, @Angelique33.  The nightly rate is per night per listing which can range from a single room to an entire place.  Depends on what you include in your listing.  The rate can be for a single person in the room per night or for more guests per night.  Also, you can show a rate for one guest and add an extra charge for additional guests.  Again, the rate given to guests is for the space not the person.  Hope this helps.  If not perhaps you can be more explicit about your confusion.

[Linda108]

@Bruce37   It appears that the efforts of the hosts to answer your question have not helped to clarify.  The short answer is "yes" to both.  You can charge based on space, a private room or an entire house and you can charge per person if you want to.  Please look at similar listings in your area and you will seen many examples of how to price.  Then it is up to you!