About sleep&eat
Travel should feel personal again.
We built sleep&eat because we kept noticing the same thing: the best stays we'd ever had — a farm in Tuscany, a canal-side apartment in Utrecht, a guesthouse run by a couple in rural Portugal — never showed up first on the big platforms. They didn't have the ad budget or the SEO team to compete. But they had something the hotel chains don't: a real person behind the door.
What we believe
Transparency
The price you see is the price you pay. No last-minute "cleaning fees". No platform surcharges added at checkout. We think the accommodation business became worse the moment platforms discovered they could add fees after a traveller was emotionally committed.
Fairness to hosts
Small accommodation owners already work hard. When a platform takes 20% of every booking, that's not a service fee — it's a structural tax on independent hospitality. We keep our commission fair, and we never punish hosts for taking direct bookings.
Direct communication
Blocking guests and hosts from talking before a booking happens serves one interest: the platform's. We think guests and hosts talking openly — before any money changes hands — makes for better stays and fewer misunderstandings. We built sleep&eat to make that the default, not the exception.
Not trying to be the biggest
There are platforms with millions of listings. We are not trying to beat them by volume. We are trying to offer something they structurally can't: a platform that genuinely prioritises the relationship between guest and host over its own revenue.
Where we operate
sleep&eat covers all of Europe. We have a growing presence in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain. If your favourite region isn't well covered yet — as a traveller or as a host — it's because we're growing carefully rather than fast.
We list bed & breakfasts, holiday homes, farm stays, guesthouses, and the kinds of unique properties that don't fit neatly into any category: a converted lighthouse, a vine-covered stone house in the Ardennes, a one-room cabin at the edge of a forest. If it's run by a real person with something genuine to offer, it belongs here.
Want to list your property?
Read about how it works for hosts — straightforward terms, fair commission, direct guest contact.
For hosts