How we check that one place really sleeps your whole group

A group stay here means one room, apartment, villa or house that sleeps your whole group in one booking. We check two things in the booking data: the guest limit of that unit and the beds in it. Two rooms of four are not a room for eight.

Ask a booking site for five people and it offers two rooms. Not because it is difficult: a room for five is rare, and no search lets you ask for one. This site sorts every place by the biggest room, apartment or house it has, and checks each size twice.

1. We read the guest limitEvery room, apartment or house in the booking data has a maximum number of guests. That is the first half. On its own it is not enough: we have seen it say nine for a standard double room.
2. The beds have to be thereThe same unit lists its beds. A double, queen, king, bunk or sofa bed sleeps two; a twin or single sleeps one. The total has to reach the guest limit. A unit with no beds in the data is left out.
3. Then the size becomes a pageEach place is listed under the size of its biggest unit and every smaller size: a villa for twelve also answers a search for five. Across our places, a room for four exists at about two thirds of them, a room for five at one in twelve, a room for eight at one in fifty. That gap is why this site exists.
4. Meeting rooms are not bedroomsA conference room with a guest limit of ten and one sofa bed is a real entry and a real trap. Rooms named meeting, conference or function room never count.
5. Hostels are never listedA dorm sleeps a group by design, and that is a different product. Hostels, backpacker places, homestays and student housing are not listed.
6. The page names the unit and its sizeThe page of each place names the unit that qualified it, with both numbers: how many people it sleeps and how many beds it has. If a place has several, all are listed.

What we cannot promise

We do not promise a unit is free on your dates. Prices and availability come live from our booking partner, and the biggest unit is usually the first one gone.

We do not add up rooms. If a place can only take your group split across rooms, it is not listed, whatever its total capacity.

We do not judge comfort. Five beds for five people is what the data says; if two of them are a sofa bed, the page says so.

Where the guest scores come from

The number beside a property (9.1, 8.6) and the short summary of what guests mention are not ours. They come from our booking partner, who collects them from people who booked and stayed through their system. We do not gather reviews, we do not moderate them, and we do not check whether any individual review is genuine. We pass on what we are given and say so. Properties with no score simply have none yet.

How this list is ordered

Default order is what we would suggest ourselves: properties that can actually be booked for your dates come first, and within those, the ones with the stronger guest scores. Choosing a sort (price, rating) replaces that entirely.

No property pays for placement. There is no advertising on this site and no paid position in any list. We earn the same way on every booking: a margin on the room rate, the same percentage whichever property you pick. A property being in the collection at all is a judgement about the place, not a commercial arrangement with it.

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