Notes from four Hotelminder advisors, once or twice a month
Every post is signed by the advisor who worked the case. No ghostwriters, no lifestyle filler, no listicles. The audience is boutique general managers running SiteMinder in Amsterdam, Milan, Barcelona, Vienna, Berlin and Lisbon — and the accountants who read the invoices they issue.
Raising RevPAR on shoulder days with a boutique-first pricing layer
Five boutique properties, four months, Rate Reasoner Studio on shoulder days only — what we learned about the discipline of not touching Fridays and Saturdays.
The honest read: SiteMinder vs Cloudbeds marketplace for boutique hotels
Where the two ecosystems actually diverge, why Hotelminder curates against SiteMinder, and what that means if you run a small boutique group already on either stack.
A boutique GM's guide to EU hotel VAT in 2026 (FR, IT, DE, ES)
The invoicing rules a general manager can hand to their comptable, commercialista, Steuerberater or asesor — tied to the SiteMinder reservations feed via Fiscal Composer.
WhatsApp for boutique hotels on SiteMinder: what we learned from 62 templates
Two months in pre-arrival threads at four boutique properties in Barcelona and Berlin. The templates that worked, the templates we deleted, and the phrasing that a concierge team will actually own.
What we do not write about
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