What it is
One page, your brand, calibrated to who's actually staying.
GuestWaypoint takes the property, the guest's travel-party type, and their spend level, and generates a curated day-plan and a targeted food/bar map — kid-fun options, live music, breweries and wine bars, or higher-end picks — scoped to what's actually walkable or driveable from where they're staying. It ships to the guest as your property's own guide, not a third-party app they have to discover and install.
Spend-calibrated, not generic
Recommendations shift with the guest's stated budget tier — a family stretching a long-weekend budget sees a different bar list than a couple on a splurge trip.
Anchored to the property
Every suggestion is scoped to real distance from the listing or hotel — the "easier than Google Maps for what's actually around here" version, not a citywide list.
Answers the questions before they're asked
The same handful of questions every guest sends — kid-friendly spot, good happy hour, date-night place — get answered up front, in the guide, before the message thread starts.
End user — who it's for
Couples & families-of-4 visiting San Diego
- Weekend up to a week-plus trip, basic itinerary already booked
- Filling in "the good parts": kid-fun activities, live music, craft breweries and wineries, higher-class options when the trip calls for it
- Want it calibrated to their spend level and to where they're actually staying — not a citywide top-10 list
Who it's for
Two people use this. One of them pays.
GuestWaypoint sells to the host — the traveler never sees a price tag, only the guide.
Buyer — who pays
San Diego STR hosts & small boutique hotels
- Tier 3/4 STRO-licensed short-term rental operators — the professionalized, higher-volume tier of the city's own licensing program
- Concentrated in family/couple-tourist-dense neighborhoods: Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, Gaslamp/Downtown, North Park, La Jolla
- Hosting 2-7 night stays, already fielding repeat guest questions by text or email
What ships in the guide
Day-plan generator
Guest-party type + spend tier + length of stay → a scaffolded day-by-day plan, editable by the host before it goes live.
Targeted food/bar map
A short, walkable/driveable list — not a Google Maps dump — tagged by price tier, vibe, and family-friendliness, anchored to the property's address.
Host-branded page
The guide carries the property's name and look, not GuestWaypoint's — guests never see the vendor behind it.
Optional booking revenue-share
In-guide activity links can route through an affiliate booking layer; commission splits with the host, disclosed per FTC rules on every link (full citation trail retained in the provenance record).
One page to maintain
Hosts don't build content — the underlying data/venue engine maintains it; the host's only job is approving the property profile.
Portfolio add-on
Property managers running several STRO-licensed listings add each one at a reduced per-listing rate instead of a second full subscription.
Pricing
One tier. Priced against what a bad review costs, not what a subscription costs.
Demo
See what a guest actually gets
Three scripted scenarios showing the guide in use — a Mission Beach family stay, a La Jolla couple's splurge weekend, and a budget-conscious Gaslamp trip. Every scenario below is a simulated walkthrough, not a live product.
The GuestWaypoint walkthrough
Host inputs a property + guest profile, GuestWaypoint generates the day-plan and the food/bar map the guest sees. Three scenarios, click through.
The ask
One pilot listing for four weeks.
No payment, no commitment beyond feedback at the end — just one property willing to try the guide with real guests and tell us honestly whether it changed the question-thread volume.
Request a pilot slotContact: [PLACEHOLDER — no live contact channel yet]