GetAll Guide vs Airbnb's guidebook
The one every host should ask about, because it costs nothing and is already there. The answer is that it does one job well and does not attempt the others.
Airbnb's guidebook: free, included with your listing · as published at the time of writing, August 2026
| Airbnb's guidebook | GetAll Guide | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free | Free for one property |
| Local recommendations | Yes, pulled from Google Maps | Yours, with walking times and your own reason (Pro) |
| House rules | Not included | A section guests open, each rule marked allowed or not |
| WiFi details | Not included | Network, password and a QR code that joins for them |
| Appliance instructions | Not included | Step by step, with photos |
| Check-in steps | Not included | Up to 20 steps, a photo on any of them |
| Door codes | Not included | Withheld by the server until the time you set |
| Check-out steps | Not included | A tickable list that rises to the top on the day |
| Guest registration | Not included | On Pro, with a form that adapts to the document |
| Works for direct bookings | Airbnb guests only | Any booking, any channel |
| Your look | Title and cover image | Logo, cover, colour and your own sections (Pro) |
What Airbnb’s guidebook actually is
It is a list of local recommendations, drawn from map data, that guests can see in the Airbnb app.
That is the whole feature, and it is worth being precise because the name suggests something broader. You can set a title and a cover image. You add places. Guests see the places.
It is free, it is already attached to your listing, and for recommending somewhere to eat it does the job.
What it does not hold
This is where the comparison lives, and none of it is a criticism — it was simply never built to do these things:
- House rules. Not there.
- The WiFi password. Not there.
- How the boiler, the hob or the washing machine work. Not there.
- Check-in steps. Not there.
- The door code. Not there.
- What to do before leaving. Not there.
Every one of those is a question a guest asks during the stay, and every one of them currently reaches you as a message.
The question that decides it
Ask what your guests actually message you about.
If the answer is “where should we eat”, Airbnb’s guidebook already covers it and you should keep using it.
If the answer is the WiFi password, how to find the entrance, what the door code is, whether they can use the washing machine, and what to do with the keys — none of those live in Airbnb’s guidebook, and no amount of filling it in will put them there.
The direct-booking problem
There is a second limit that catches hosts as they grow.
Airbnb’s guidebook only exists for Airbnb guests. A booking from Booking.com, a returning guest who came to you directly, a friend of a friend — none of them can see it.
The link we issue goes out in your own message, so it works identically whatever the channel. That matters more every year, as more hosts try to take direct bookings and stop paying commission on all of them.
You can use both
This is not really an either-or, and we would rather say so.
Plenty of hosts keep Airbnb’s recommendations exactly where they are and send a link for everything else. The recommendations are the part Airbnb does free and adequately; the arrival, the codes and the instructions are the part that has to live somewhere a guest can reach at midnight.
If you would rather have your recommendations in one place with everything else — with walking times and a line on why each one is worth it — that is a Pro section here. But keeping theirs costs you nothing and loses you nothing.
The honest summary
Airbnb’s guidebook is a good free feature with a narrow scope. It answers “what is nearby”. It does not answer “how do I get in”, which is the question that wakes hosts at two in the morning.
Choose GetAll Guide if
Your guests need to get in, get online and know how things work — which is everything Airbnb's guidebook does not hold. You take bookings from more than one place, or directly. You want the door code to arrive at the right moment rather than living in a chat thread. And you want one guide you correct once, that everyone sees corrected.
Create your guideChoose Airbnb's guidebook if
Your guests only ever come from Airbnb, and what you want them to have is a list of good places nearby. For that specific job it is free, it is already built, and it sits in the app they are already holding. Keep it. There is no reason to stop using it even if you also use us — plenty of hosts run both, because they answer different questions.
- It is free, and it is already there. Nothing to set up, nothing to send, nothing extra to maintain.
- Guests find it inside the Airbnb app where they are already looking, without you sending a link.
- For local recommendations specifically, it works, and it is pulled from map data so the addresses are right.
- It survives you. It needs no account with anyone else and nothing that can lapse.