Extra guest fee

Set as a per-night amount above a guest threshold, the extra guest fee signals the occupancy your listing is priced and prepared for. A guest who books for two has agreed, in writing on the platform, to that headcount and its terms.

That agreement is the value most hosts overlook. It is not just revenue on a busy weekend. It is the documented expectation that makes an over-capacity stay a clear breach rather than a vague complaint.

More people than a space is built for is the single biggest predictor of damage and of parties. Wear concentrates, furniture is overloaded, and an unauthorised gathering produces the highest-value claims hosts ever file.

When that happens, the recovery question is whether you can show both the agreed limit and the actual state of the property before and after the stay. The fee fixes the limit. Your inspection record fixes the damage. Together they connect the breach to the cost.

AirCover can cover damage from some unbooked extra guests, but only where the host can substantiate what happened. A documented occupancy threshold strengthens the claim by showing the booking terms were exceeded, while a dated baseline shows the damage occurred during that specific stay.

Hosts who try to recover after the fact, with no limit on record and no before-photos, usually find the claim treated as a dispute over normal use. The fee and the baseline are what move it out of that grey zone.