The default order
- How much the host travels with other hosts. Members earn 100 traveler points for every completed stay at another Better Guest home. A host's homes rank by that host's points, counted in whole stays. This switches on once 50 homes are live. There are 13 now, which is too few for points to mean anything, so they don't count yet.
- Newer homes next. So a new home isn't buried under ones that have been here longer.
- A fixed tie-break. The same search always gives the same order.
What never changes the order
- Money. Nothing anyone pays Better Guest, and no discount size or fee, is part of ranking. (Price only matters in your own deck, as a match to the price range you tend to like.)
- Star ratings and review counts. Reviews help you decide; they don't decide who gets seen, and a host is never ranked down by one guest's review.
- Anything about who you are. What's recommended to you comes only from what you do in the app (Stay and Skip, saves, views) and the preferences you set.
- The homepage's featured row is picked by the Better Guest team by hand. It is never paid for.
Your Skip or Stay deck
Once you tap Stay on a home, your deck puts homes like the ones you liked first, by place, price, type and amenities. About one card in five is something outside that, so you still discover new things. You can reset this any time from your profile.
You can always sort it yourself
Search can be sorted by price or by newest instead. Search stays