Maldives Hospitality · Websites · Guest Communication · Operations

Full rooms can still leak money — to commissions, to slow replies, to searches you never appear in. We build the digital side of Maldives hospitality so the busy season actually pays.

Every Maldives property loses money in four places: the commission on bookings that could have been direct, the enquiries that die waiting for a reply, the guests who never found you because an AI answered someone else's name, and the margin that leaks out through rates priced for demand that never arrives. This page shows you all four — and what fixing each one costs. The last two are the ones you can't see on any report. We'll get to them.

01The Four Leaks

Where does a full property lose money?

In four places: OTA commission on bookings that could have been direct, enquiries lost to slow replies across too many channels, invisibility in the AI-assisted searches guests now use, and margin bleeding out through a rate structure priced for demand that never arrives. The first two show up in your accounts. The last two rarely do.

Leak 1 — The commission.

A typical OTA takes 15–25% of every booking, and visibility programs push it higher. On a 12-room property at normal season occupancy, that's a five-figure sum every year — paid for guests who often searched your name first.

Leak 2 — The hours.

Enquiries arrive on WhatsApp, Instagram, email and three extranets. Replies wait. Quotes get retyped. Staff change and the answers change with them. Every slow reply is a guest quietly booking the island next door.

Leak 3 — The one you can't see.

Guests now ask ChatGPT, Google's AI answers and Perplexity where to stay. Those systems only recommend properties whose information they can read, verify and quote. If your site wasn't built for that, you're not losing bookings — you were never in the running.

There's a 15-minute way to find out if this is happening to you — it's at the bottom of this page.

Leak 4 — The margin.

Rooms sold below market, long-lead bookings priced as if they'll all arrive, and promotions that produce volume instead of revenue. Nala Veli was ranked #2 of 35 on its island and still underpricing by 20%. This leak doesn't show up as a missing booking. It shows up as a full season that didn't pay.

See it, measured, on the Proof page

Taxes went up. Commissions creep up. Doing nothing is the only option with a guaranteed cost.

02Built by an Operator

Beautiful on the surface. Engineered underneath.

We didn't learn hospitality from clients.
We learned it at the front desk.

Twenty-plus years inside Maldives tourism: resort operations, the OTA distribution business — yes, we've sat on their side of the extranet — travel agencies, and island guesthouses. Then one property, joined at six rooms. Today it runs thirty-two rooms, a spa, a restaurant and an excursion centre — with the website, booking funnel, Cloudbeds setup, pricing system and AI-assisted guest communication all built in-house, by us.

That property taught us one rule we now refuse to break — it's the reason our AI never invents a price, and it's two scrolls down.

EzWebBuilds exists to build that same machinery for other Maldives properties — priced in the open, owned by you.

6 → 32 rooms — the property we help run
20+ years in Maldives tourism
8 live sites across the islands
03What We Build (And Which Leak It Stops)
01

Get found & booked directly

Stops leaks 1 & 3 $250 audit · $900 site

A property website that matches your OTA listing's quality, answers in your guests' languages, and is structured so Google and AI assistants can read, verify and quote it.

  • LAUNCHWebsite Launch — $900, live in 3 weeks
  • DIRECTDirect-Booking Website — from $1,800
  • LANGAdditional language — $300 each
  • AUDITWebsite & Visibility Audit — $250, credited
Websites & audits
02

Look worth the rate

Stops leaks 1 & 3 $350 shoot

In-house property photography and video — a team born and raised on Ukulhas, so no travel cost on our own atoll. Shot to Booking.com's 4000×3000 spec, sequenced in listing order.

  • REFRESHListing Refresh — $350, ~20 photos
  • FULLFull Property Shoot — $650, ~40 photos + drone
  • FILMSignature photo + video — $1,200
  • BANKContent Bank — from $95/mo
Photography & video
03

Reply fast, in any language

Stops leak 2 from $800

An AI assistant trained on your property that drafts accurate, on-brand replies for your staff — and refuses to guess. Bookings and complaints always escalate to a human.

  • DRAFTDrafts replies; a human always sends
  • RULENever invents prices or availability
  • PLANMonthly plans $59 / $149 keep it current
Guest communication
04

Price for what actually arrives

Stops leak 4 $450 diagnosis

We read twelve months of your Booking.com data and recommend a rate structure — season bands, cancellation policy mix, lead-time rules. We recommend; you approve. Your prices stay yours.

  • READOTA & Rate Diagnosis — $450, credited
  • BUILDRate Structure Build — $750
  • REVIEWQuarterly Revenue Review — $180/mo
Revenue & distribution
05

Run it from your phone

Stops leak 2's back office $350 Discovery

Telegram mini apps, dashboards and automation for reservations, invoices and reporting — scoped through a paid Discovery so the price is fixed before the build starts.

  • APPSReservation mini apps — from $1,200
  • DASHOperations dashboards — from $1,500
  • GATEEvery custom build starts with Discovery
Systems & automation
Guesthouses Island Hotels Dive Centres Excursion Operators Vacation Homes
04Shipped, Live, In Use

Every project below is live.

6 → 32rooms — the property we help run
8live sites we've built and shipped
3case studies — website, mini app, island guide
80+pages — our own island travel platform
Featured · Telegram Mini App

Regional Engineering

An operations mini app for an AC service & maintenance company, running entirely inside Telegram. Owners see profit, sales, collections and outstanding balances at a glance, manage customers, and issue invoices from their phone.

In production with an external client — built by an operator who runs island hospitality daily.

  • TypeTelegram mini app + dashboard
  • ModulesCustomers · Invoices · Reports
  • HighlightsLive P&L · invoice status · quick actions
  • PlatformAny phone — nothing to install
Proof Nala Veli Maldives website — aerial beachfront hero with booking call to action
Beach & Spa · Ukulhas See the proof
Nala Veli Maldives

The property behind our Proof page — website, photography and rate structure rebuilt together, with the measured results published in full.

Blue Marlin Excursions website — aerial reef hero with WhatsApp booking and Google rating
Excursion Operator · Ukulhas Visit
Blue Marlin Excursions

A locally owned excursion operator's sea trips made bookable in one tap — sandbank, snorkelling, fishing and manta days, with a 4.9 Google rating carried up front.

Ukulhas Maldives travel hub — island hero with a hotel and flight search widget
Travel Hub · Island Guide Visit
Ukulhas Maldives

A travel-agency-style island hub: search and compare stays, flights, dining, diving and excursions on one island, with information checked from the ground — the model for any destination or agency site.

Koimala Maldives guesthouse website — whale shark snorkeling packages and room booking
Guesthouse · Maamigili Visit
Koimala Maldives

A whale-shark-country guesthouse with its trips and rooms presented the way guests actually search for them.

Bodu Manta Diving Center website — dive courses and manta ray expedition listings
Dive Centre · N. Ari Atoll Visit
Bodu Manta Diving Center

A dive centre's courses and manta trips made bookable by enquiry — clear pages a guest can act on from a phone.

Madi Maldives vacation home website — aerial reef hero with manta rays and snorkelers
Vacation Home · Ukulhas Visit
Madi Maldives

A vacation home given a presence that matches its personal-host character — small property, credible site.

Maafolhey Maldives vacation home website — island stay accommodation and booking
Vacation Home · Ukulhas Visit
Maafolhey Maldives

A bilingual site for a private island vacation home — live and in use by the property.

Ostrov Maldives website — boutique beach stay homepage
Boutique Beach Stay · Ukulhas Visit
Ostrov Maldives

A boutique beach-stay brand given a booking-ready presence — rooms, rates and direct enquiry, built to match the property's character.

Everything here is shipped — eight sites live and in use across the islands.

Read the case studies
05What It Costs

Priced in the open, never apologized for.

Every project gets a written scope and a fixed price before work starts. Prices are in USD with MVR equivalents at a reference rate of 15.46; final tax treatment and exchange values are confirmed in the written proposal.

Website & Visibility Audit Credited 100% against a rebuild within 90 days.

A scored, evidence-tagged review of your website and Google presence — 54 checkpoints, delivered in 7 days. $400 for multi-property.

$250 MVR 3,865
Special-Offer Landing Page Half the fee is credited to a full website within 6 months.

One focused page for one offer, live within 5 working days of receiving content, with a tracked WhatsApp CTA.

$200 + $100/yr MVR 3,092
Website Launch 60 days of care included after launch.

A fast, mobile-first property website — up to 7 sections, structured for Google and AI search, WhatsApp-first enquiry. Live in 3 weeks from content receipt.

$900 MVR 13,914
Direct-Booking Website Fixed price in writing before work starts.

A conversion-built property site: room-level pages, offers, booking-engine embed or structured enquiry flow, full structured data. Additional language +$300.

from $1,800 MVR 27,828
AI Guest-Enquiry Assistant Guardrails demonstrated before the balance is due.

A trained assistant that drafts accurate, on-brand replies for your staff. It never invents prices or availability, and a human always sends the final message.

from $800 plan $59 or $149/mo MVR 12,368
Paid Discovery 50% credited to the resulting build within 60 days.

A structured 1–2 week engagement that maps your workflows and ends with a fixed-price proposal for any custom build. Every custom system starts here.

$350 MVR 5,411
Care Plans Prepaid by term — 3, 6 or 12 months; 3-month minimum.

Hosting, SSL, backups, monitoring and capped update hours in three monthly tiers, so the site keeps earning after launch.

$29 / $69 / $129 per month MVR 448 / MVR 1,067 / MVR 1,994

Custom systems Reservation mini apps (from $1,200) and operations dashboards (from $1,500) are scoped and fixed-priced through paid Discovery — never quoted open-ended.

06AI Running Costs, In The Open
AI

Useful, powerful — and priced in the open.

AI projects work a little differently from a website, and we’d rather explain it up front than surprise you later. Here’s exactly how the costs break down.

01 · Build cost
Scoped per workflow

Every automation is different, so there’s no flat tag. We map your exact workflow, then quote the build agreed before any work starts.

02 · Hosting & support
Depends on infrastructure

Running cost depends on what it needs — database, storage, integrations. We size it to the job and keep it lean.

03 · AI model usage
Token-based

AI models charge by the token — small chunks of the text they read and write. The more it’s used, the more it processes.

04 · Monthly estimate
Given before launch

You’ll get a clear expected monthly range based on real usage patterns — no mystery bills after go-live.

05 · Usage cap
Can be set

We can place a hard ceiling on usage so monthly spend stays inside a limit you choose.

06 · Approval threshold
You stay in control

Past an agreed point, nothing scales up without your sign-off first. Spend never runs away on its own.

In plain terms

A token is just a small piece of text — roughly a few characters, or part of a word. AI tools are billed by how many tokens they read and write, the way a phone plan bills by data. We design each workflow to use as few as possible, and show you the math before you commit.

07Questions Owners Ask

Straight answers, before you ask.

How much does a guesthouse website cost in the Maldives?

At EzWebBuilds, a complete guesthouse website starts at $900 (about MVR 13,900) and is live within three weeks of receiving your photos and details. Direct-booking websites with room-level pages and booking-engine integration start at $1,800. Every build includes 60 days of care.

Can a website really reduce my OTA commissions?

No honest studio guarantees booking shifts. What a direct-booking website changes is the machinery: your property's information matches your OTA listing, guests can enquire in one tap on WhatsApp, and every enquiry is tracked — so direct business finally has somewhere to land.

Will an AI assistant make things up to my guests?

Ours is built not to. It answers only from information your property approved, refuses to state prices or availability it hasn't been given, and escalates bookings and complaints to your staff. A human always sends the final message. We demonstrate the refusals before handover.

What do I need to provide?

Photos, room and price details, and a decision-maker for approvals. We supply a checklist on day one; your project clock starts when the content arrives — most owners gather everything in under a week.

What does “AI visibility” mean and do I need it?

Guests increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answers where to stay. Those systems recommend properties whose websites they can read and verify. We structure every build for that — and our $250 audit shows exactly where an existing site stands.

Do you do photography?

Yes, in-house. Miruppe and Accko are born and raised on Ukulhas, so on our own atoll there's no travel cost, no speedboat and no overnight line on your invoice. Packages run from a $350 Listing Refresh to a $1,200 Signature photo-and-video shoot, all to Booking.com's 4000×3000 spec.

Can you fix my rates on Booking.com?

We read your twelve months of extranet data and recommend a rate structure — season bands, cancellation policy mix, lead-time and length-of-stay rules. You approve it and it loads with your sign-off. We recommend; you decide. No studio can promise a revenue number, and we won't.

Do you work with businesses outside hospitality?

Hospitality is our home ground, but the same machinery — websites, mini apps, automation — has shipped for service businesses like an AC maintenance company. If your operation runs on enquiries and invoices, it likely fits.

08Start Where It's Easy

Start where it's easy.

That 15-minute check we promised at the top of the page? It's the audit: your site scored against 54 points — including the third leak — for $250, credited in full if we rebuild. Or just say hello on WhatsApp.

What happens next: you message → we ask five questions → you get a one-page plan with a fixed price within 48 hours.