When bundling extras turns a holiday let into a package

The building blocks: what counts as a travel service

Read that fourth limb slowly. Your property is already one travel service. The excursion, the lesson, the guided walk, the pass: all candidates for the fourth category. You are one addition away from a combination.

How a combination becomes a package

The word doing the damage is or. You need not be running a tour operation. Charging one total price for the week plus the transfer is enough on its own.

What genuinely falls outside

• A bare recommendation. Naming a taxi firm the guest books and pays independently is not a combination. The moment you take the money, set the price or hand over the guest's details, think again.

What follows if you are the organiser

That is the sting. Information duties are paperwork you can fix in an afternoon. Insolvency protection is a financial arrangement that has to exist before you sell, and it cannot be retrofitted once a guest has paid.

Where we would draw the line

For most owners, the sensible position is to keep extras out of the sale. Let the guest contract directly with the driver, the instructor, the hire company. Do not bundle, do not quote one inclusive price, and do not pass details across in a way that produces a second contract within a day. If you genuinely want to sell a bundled experience, decide that deliberately and build the protections before the first booking.

We have managed short-stay property since 2015, and would far rather have this conversation in January than in August. If you are weighing up extras, we study every request and tell you honestly whether and how we can help.