The goal of RetreatVenues.com is to connect retreat organisers and retreat leaders to retreat venue owners worldwide. We make it easy, quick and safe for you to rent out your venue on our platform. We have a database of 4000+ retreat leaders who might be interested in a retreat venue just like yours!

Listing a venue is completely free and we don’t have any subscription fees either. This means that you don’t have any risk when using our platform! We only ask for a small 7% commission from you after each confirmed booking, due in 7 days after checkout.

We calculate the commission based on your earnings, which is the total cost of the reservation (without security deposit, cleaning fee or city fee) + extra options paid by guests.

We only earn when you do, so we want to make you successful!

Just click on the button on the top right corner of the page that says Sign Up, and select the option: I want to rent my property. You will receive a password generated for you by email. After logging in, you can verify yourself by uploading a photo of your face and a photo of your official ID card. This is important to make the site safer for everybody.

We ask all retreat organisers to verify themselves by email, photo and ID card, but it is not obligatory.

Yes, you can communicate with the organiser in our internal messaging system and also exchange contact information. However, you are obligated to report to us every confirmed booking that you received from us by sending us an email.

If you fail to do so, we will permanently ban you from using our platform in the future.

When potential clients have questions or express interest in your listing, they’ll reach out to you via our secure messaging system. You’ll receive email notifications for each new message. You must promptly answer these messages or contact the organiser in other ways in 24 hours.

We welcome retreat centers, hotels and all types of venues around the world, who are prepared to host groups and retreats. You should be able to host at least 8 people, and preferably offer the whole venue for hire, or at least a private space for groups. Your venue should be equipped with the right type of facilities for the right type of retreat.

You will always get paid directly by the client and not through us. We don’t provide any payment facilities and we are not responsible for refunds or cancellations. The organisers cannot pay directly on the platform by card or any other way.

The standard method of payment is traditional bank transfer, unless you choose something else. You are responsible for sending your payment details and payment instructions to organisers and also for sending them your invoice. 

When an organiser wants to rent your venue, he/she will select the dates and the number of guests, and click on Send Message. You will get an email notification about this, and will have to login to your account and check your internal inbox.

You can answer the client directly in the private message or exchange contact details. If you agreed on everything and ready to take the payment, you will have to send the invoice to the client in email and CC info@retreatvenues.com, as well. You also need to send your payment details and instructions in that email.

Before a booking is confirmed, you can easily reject a booking request by sending an internal message to the client with the reason of rejection.

After a booking is confirmed, you cannot cancel a booking freely. Please only cancel a booking only if absolutely necessary. The retreat organisers count on you to provide exact availability and pricing details, which you already confirmed when accepting the request. Canceling a confirmed booking is bad business for everybody. If you cancel the booking, you are responsible for refunding the client fully and you will still owe us the 7% commission of the full amount.

If the retreat organiser asks you to cancel the booking, you will have to apply the cancellation policy that you set at the time of booking. We normally recommend to set the deposit fee as non-refundable. To prove that the cancellation request was initiated by the client, the client has to contact you in our internal messaging system about the cancellation request.

If an owner cancels a booking because of non-payment by the organiser, it will be regarded as a cancellation initiated by the organiser.

Yes, you can set your own booking policy, but it must be clear and you must add it to your listing. For example, you can ask for a deposit to confirm the booking, require partial payments and decide on the timeframes.

You can also decide about your cancellation policy for each listing. For example, you can make the deposit non-refundable, or not give any refunds 15 days before check-in. You have to explain your cancellation policy clearly when creating a listing.

In order to keep our platform competitive, we offer a Best Price Guarantee to retreat leaders. This means that your listing should offer pricing that is consistent with or lower than what you provide on other platforms where you list your venue, including your own website.

Adding a listing is easy and straightforward. After logging in, click on Add New Listing from the Dashboard. The listing wizard will take you through all the steps to complete your listing. Please fill in every detail carefully, otherwise you make it harder for searchers to find your venue.

The Title can be the official name of the venue you normally use. The description should be appealing but also unique, meaning that you haven’t used this exact description anywhere else on the internet before. This is important for SEO purposes and discoverability.

In the dropdown called Space, you can select what kind of space you offer for rent. We strongly encourage you to offer your Entire Venue for hire, as that is what most organisers are looking for. Private Space is when you offer only a private part of your venue, like an individual house or room, and want to control the price individually. Shared Space is for personal retreat goers only.

The capacity is the maximum number of guests you want to host in your space. To add the minimum number of people you require in a group, click on the Details tab, and fill in the field ‘Minimum Group Size’.

You have to list your prices with taxes included and you are responsible for paying them afterwards. You can still input the Taxes in % for internal purposes, to better see how much you are actually making.

If you set a starting price, always include the word ‘From’ in the ‘Before label’ of your price details.

If you don’t want to set any price (which we don’t recommend), then don’t put any amount to the price, just write ‘Price on Request’ in the ‘Before label’ of your price details.

Under the Extra options on the price details page, you can add optional extra services your clients can pay for. This can be airport transfer, tours and activities or anything else. The price can be set as a single fee, per night, per guest or per night per guest.

After you went through all the steps in the listing wizard, the listing will be pending approval. We will check your listing, reject it, approve it, or ask for modifications. After a successful approval, your listing will go live on the platform. You can edit or delete a listing any time under My Listings.

Yes, we can also create your listing for you for free. We use publicly available data to add your venue, and then you can check it and edit it afterwards.  Please ask for your done-for-you listing  here: https://retreatvenues.com/dfy/

You have almost complete control. Manage your calendar availability, block unavailable periods, update pricing, and make other adjustments whenever you wish. You can add a separate weekend price, set number of minimum days, or give discounts for +6 days, +30 days bookings or for early bookings. With the detailed price adjustments, you can set seasonal prices or even different prices for each day if you want.

Yes, you can easily synchronise your calendar with other platforms and keep your availability up-to-date to avoid double bookings.

You can sync with Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, your Google Calendar and any other platform that uses the iCal feed technology.

You can export the iCal feed of the given listing under My Listings – Calendar – Import/export iCalendar feeds. You can import maximum 3 feeds to our platform.

We may sometimes create a venue listing on our own. In this case, the real owner of the venue may claim this listing by sending us an email. The owner will have to register on our platform as such, fill out the profile details and upload a photo and ID verification.

After we verified the owner’s profile and the ownership, we will transfer the listing to the owner’s account.

Certainly! We are here to help you to create the perfect listing for your retreat venue. You can book a personal onboarding call where we will create the listing together with you live, and answer any questions you may have. Please schedule a call here: https://retreatvenues.com/call/