About Temple Holidays

What this is

Temple Holidays is a practical catalogue for short-term rental hosts who do not want to compete only on price.

The site is built around a simple idea: a stay becomes easier to book, photograph, operate, and remember when it is designed for a specific guest. A solo traveler needs a different room than a family. A food traveler reads a kitchen differently than a couple on an anniversary. A trail runner notices things a generic guest will never see.

The catalogue turns that idea into concrete starting points: Themes, detailed Examples, audience pages, budget tiers, journal essays, and free host resources.

Who it is for

Temple Holidays is for hosts, co-hosts, and small operators who already have a property and want to make it more specific.

It is especially useful if you are asking one of these questions:

• Why should someone choose this stay instead of the similar one nearby?
• Which guest is this property actually built for?
• What should I change first if I only have a weekend and a small budget?
• Which objects, photos, welcome notes, and operating details make the promise believable?
• What should the listing say so the right guest recognizes it?

It is not a generic decorating site. It is not a guarantee of higher revenue. It is a field guide for making sharper decisions.

What you can use today

Start with the Themes if you already know the kind of stay you want to build.

Start with audiences if you know the guest first.

Start with budgets if you need to know what can be done under $500, between $500 and $3,000, or with a larger rebuild.

The resources section collects practical templates and checklists. The journal explains the market thesis, welcome rituals, photography, copy, and upgrade decisions behind the catalogue.

How the research works

The recommendations are based on short-term rental market research, operator case studies, platform documentation, guest-experience sources, and editorial judgment.

Claims that affect money, safety, legal exposure, or buying decisions should be sourced or clearly framed as opinion. Dates matter because short-term rental markets, local rules, and platform features change quickly.

For the full standard, read the editorial policy.

How Temple Holidays is funded

The public catalogue is free to read.

For now, Temple Holidays is a free editorial project. If affiliate links, sponsorships, or any other commercial model are introduced later, they will be labeled plainly and the editorial policy will be updated before they appear.

Temple Holidays does not run display ads, sell reader data, or publish sponsored Theme or Example pages.

Who writes it

Temple Holidays is edited by Antonin Cohen, who has worked on short-term rental properties across two countries since 2019.

The point of the site is not to make every property look the same. It is to help hosts choose one guest, build around that guest, and make the stay easier to understand before the booking happens.

Get in touch

For corrections, questions, operator notes, or examples from a finished build, write to [email protected].