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8 Years, 6 Years Unpaid, Zero Shortcuts: Introducing Pedro Reis - The Hotel Manager Who Built Wales' Most Selective Vacation Rental Company
The Hotel Manager Who Built Guesture: 6 Years Unpaid
Pedro Reis
Jan 2415 min read
Three months, one direct guest: what a long stay is worth to an owner
At a home we manage in South Wales, one guest booked directly for a continuous 90-day stay at £90 a night. Here is why a direct long stay, with no platform commission and far fewer turnovers, can be worth more to an owner than a full calendar of short bookings.
Pedro Reis
6 hours ago3 min read
What a two-bed flat in central Bristol really earns on short lets (with the numbers)
A real two-bed in Bristol city centre, run by Guesture: £44,100 in nine months, 85% of nights sold at £189 a night, three months over £6,000. Where the money came from.
Pedro Reis
2 days ago2 min read
8 Years, 6 Years Unpaid, Zero Shortcuts: Introducing Pedro Reis - The Hotel Manager Who Built Wales' Most Selective Vacation Rental Company
The Hotel Manager Who Built Guesture: 6 Years Unpaid
Does a Holiday Let Flat in a Converted Building Need Its Own Fire Risk Assessment? (Wales)
The only fire risk assessment on file for a Cardiff conversion we manage dated from 2015, and it covered the hallway, not the holiday-let flat. Here is what Welsh law expects in 2026: who is responsible, why it must be written down in full, what assessors check and what it costs.
Holiday Let Insurance in Wales When You Live Abroad: What We Learned
One of our owners lives in mainland Europe, and his home insurance didn't cover paying guests. Finding proper holiday-let cover from abroad was harder than it should be. Here is what a policy needs, the traps in flats and leases, why AirCover isn't insurance, and how we got him quoted.
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