For villa owners
List your Thailand villa with thaivillas and we present it like an editorial feature — then send the guest straight to you. Direct bookings, a guest relationship that's yours to keep, and never a commission to us. Keep the 15–18% the OTAs quietly take.
The arithmetic
The big booking sites advertise "free to list," then take 15–18% of every reservation — host fee plus the guest service fee baked into the price. On a busy villa, that adds up to roughly one booked night in six handed to a company that never met your guest. With thaivillas, the rate the guest pays is the money you receive. We charge owners nothing.
Illustrative example — not a guarantee
Take a villa at $238 a night, booked 30 nights a month. That's about $7,140 in monthly bookings. At a 15% platform cut you'd lose roughly $1,000+ every month — gone before a single guest arrives. Booked direct through thaivillas, that's ~$1,000+ a month back in your pocket. Your numbers will differ; the principle won't.
Why book direct
A listing on a giant marketplace makes your villa a thumbnail in a sea of ten thousand. We do the opposite — fewer villas, better told, and the relationship stays yours.
We don't dump your photos into a grid next to a price filter. We write your villa up like a magazine feature — its rooms, its light, its corner of Thailand — so the guest falls for it before they ever check the calendar.
Book through a platform and the guest belongs to the platform — their email, their next stay, their loyalty. Book direct and that relationship is yours. Repeat guests, word of mouth, the friends they send next season. That's the real asset.
Your nightly rate, your minimum stay, your house rules, your cancellation terms. No algorithm nudging you to discount, no surprise policy change imposed from a head office on another continent. It's your villa — you run it.
Your villa sits beside a small set of vouched-for peers, not ten thousand random rentals. Guests arrive already trusting the collection — and that trust lifts every villa in it, including yours.
Listing is free and we take nothing from your bookings. We'd rather grow a collection owners are glad to be part of than skim a percentage off the top of every stay. The rate the guest pays is yours.
You'll deal with the people building this collection, not a ticket queue. When you write, a person who knows your villa writes back — and helps you present it at its best.
How listing works
We hand-curate, so listing is selective rather than instant — but the path is simple, and we do the heavy lifting on presentation.
Send us the basics below — where it is, how many bedrooms, what makes it special. A few photos from your phone are plenty to start. No long form, no commitment.
We photograph or edit your villa into a proper editorial piece — written, sequenced and styled to match the collection. You approve every word and image before it goes live.
Your villa goes up alongside its vouched-for peers, with your real rates, your calendar and your house rules. We promote the collection; the spotlight falls on your villa.
Enquiries and bookings come straight to you. You confirm dates, take payment your way, and welcome your guest. We never sit between you and the money — and we never take a cut.
Sandalwood, on Koh Samui, is our flagship — the first villa in a collection that's only just beginning. Yours could be among the next few we present.
List your villa
Tell us a little about your villa and we'll take it from there. We reply personally — this isn't a form into a void.
Owner questions
Nothing to list, and 0% commission on your bookings — forever. There's no listing fee, no monthly subscription and no cut taken from a single stay. The rate your guest pays is the money you keep.
Directly with you. Enquiries arrive straight to your inbox, you confirm the dates, and you take payment however you already do — bank transfer, deposit, your own checkout. We never sit between you and your guest's money.
No — we curate. We're building a small, characterful collection rather than a directory, so we look for villas with a real sense of place and owners who care about the guest experience. If it's a fit, we'll tell you quickly.
You do, directly. That's the point of booking direct — the relationship is yours. You answer questions, set expectations and welcome your guests in your own voice, building the repeat stays and referrals that a platform would otherwise keep for itself.
Yes. Listing with thaivillas is non-exclusive — keep your villa wherever you like. Many owners use us for the bookings they'd rather take direct and commission-free, and keep the OTAs for incremental reach. You just keep more of what comes through us.
Owner-direct, from the start
List your villa, present it properly, and take your bookings direct at 0% commission. We'd love to see your place.