How the Price of a Stay Is Calculated

The Nights

A stay is priced night by night from the host's calendar, not as one rate multiplied out. A Saturday premium, a holiday week or a single overridden date all count in the total. Open the nights row in the breakdown to see each night's price.

A host can price their own booking website differently from Kabora, so the same nights can cost more or less there.

Fees and Tax

• Cleaning fee: A host may set a different one for stays of two nights or fewer, because a turnover costs the same either way.
• Linens fee: Charged where a host sets one.
• Extra guest fee: Charged for each guest above the number the host includes. It is counted the way the host chose: once for the stay, per guest, per night, or per guest per night. Infants never count toward it.
• Pet fee: Charged only on places that accept pets. It is counted the same way, and added when you say pets are coming.
• Tax: Calculated on everything above, fees included, under the name it has where the place is.

The listing's booking box asks for adults, children, infants and pets separately, on the website and in the Kabora app.

Only lines above zero are shown, so a fee your host does not charge never appears.

Discounts

Hosts can set weekly, monthly, early-booking, last-minute, early-bird and length-of-stay discounts. They do not stack: one of them applies, normally the largest your stay qualifies for. Weekly and monthly are the exception, because they never compete. If your stay is long enough for the monthly discount, the monthly one applies even when the weekly one is larger.

One discount does stack on top of the rest: the new-listing discount. It takes 20% off the first three bookings of a place in its first 90 days. It is off until a host turns it on, so do not assume a new place is cheaper.

A promo code you enter at checkout competes with these discounts rather than adding to them. If your stay already earns a better discount, you keep that one. The code is not used, and the page says so.

A discount can never exceed the cost of the accommodation. A stay touching a host's blackout period receives no discount at all, including a promo code.

What Kabora Adds

There is no Kabora fee on your bill. The setting to charge guests one exists, but it is set to zero and switched off. What you pay is therefore the host's price, their fees and the tax.

Beneath the total, Where your money goes shows how that total is divided. It lists your host's share, any tax, the card processing and Kabora's platform fee. The last two come out of your host's side, so nothing is added to your price.

Prices in Your Own Currency

You can read prices in your own currency: pick it with the currency picker at the foot of the page, or in the Kabora app under Profile → Language and Currency. A converted price carries an asterisk, and the page says what it means: Converted at today's rate, for reference. The host charges in their own currency. You are charged in the listing's currency, and your bank does the conversion.

Outside the Total

A security deposit is never in the total. Its own note states whether Kabora holds it on your card, charges and refunds it, or your host collects it.

Whatever the page showed you, the server prices the stay again when you book, and that number counts.