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Waliur, Bristol landlord
Tried self-managing, then a lettings agent, then us. Piloted one flat and roughly doubled its income in twelve months.
Scott, Bristol landlord, with AltoLuxo since 2024
Practically full the whole time, done as promised. Never renting long term again.
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£40,310 in bookings in the last twelve months, 88% occupied, managed by AltoLuxo.
Airbnb Property Management in Chepstow
Airbnb management in Chepstow is judged against one number: 182. That's how many days a year your holiday let has to be let in Wales to be rated for business rates. A let that falls short can end up on council tax, where Monmouthshire charges second homes a 100% premium. We run three apartments in the town centre, so yours would join a calendar we already price every night.
What we know about the town comes from three apartments in one building in the centre. A one-bedroom apartment in Chepstow and a one-bedroom apartment in the town centre each sleep 2, and a two-bedroom apartment in Chepstow sleeps 4. All three are listed with free parking.
For arrivals between 1 September 2025 and 2 September 2026, stays in them averaged 8 nights, against 13.4 across everything we manage. A booking records the length of a stay, not the reason for it. Eight nights means a Chepstow calendar turns over more often than our average, and each changeover is a clean to get right and a gap to price shut.
We furnish and photograph the property first, then list it on Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo. We price every night, answer every guest, clean between stays, and send you a statement each month showing what it earned.
Pricing every night is the part Chepstow punishes an owner for skipping. Welsh Grand National Monday isn't worth what a Tuesday in February is worth, and an unsold February week leaves you further from 182. Checking prices daily loses to a day job, because the pricing is relentless, not because you're slow. The jobs that queue behind pricing are in self-managing a short let or handing it over.
Our fee only comes out of what the property earns; set-up costs are quoted and agreed upfront. Whether you'd call it holiday let management in Chepstow or Airbnb management, it's the same work against the same 182.
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For your peace of mind
Our Airbnb Management Services in Chepstow include
Online
Marketing
We promote your property across major booking platforms using optimised listings and targeted marketing strategies to increase visibility and bookings.
Professional Cleaning
At AltoLuxo Model, we coordinate with reliable cleaning partners who follow strict checklists after every stay, ensuring spotless rooms, fresh linens, and consistently high standards that lead to 5-star reviews.
More earnings in less effort
With 3 years of experience in vacation rentals, we help property owners to grow in today’s competitive rental market. We combine strategy, technology, and proven hospitality standards to unlock your property’s full potential.
Dynamic
Pricing
We use smart pricing tools to adjust your nightly rates in real time. This helps you stay competitive, increase occupancy and earn more without constant manual updates.
Taking guest deposits and IDs
To protect your property, we collect security deposits and verify guest IDs before arrival. This reduces risks of damage or fraudulent bookings while ensuring only verified guests stay at your property.
Collecting booking payments
We take care of all booking payments through trusted and secure platforms. This guarantees you receive accurate and timely payouts for every stay, while eliminating risks of delays or errors.
Handles guest communications
From the first enquiry to check-out, we handle all guest communication with professionalism and speed. Guests receive prompt answers and support, which builds trust and enhances their overall experience.
Handling
disputes
In the rare event of disputes or claims, our team manages the process quickly and fairly. We communicate with both the guest and booking platform, protecting your property and reputation while minimising stress for you
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Tools we use to maximise your property’s performance
We use industry-leading tools and technology to keep your property competitive, optimise bookings, and streamline operations.
Property Management Platform
Manage your bookings, guest messages, and listings in one place, which helps you to keep everything organised and easy to access.
Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management Tool
Adjust your nightly rates based on demand, season, and competition, get more bookings, and earn more.
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Guest Experience and Operations System
Oversee guest communications, check-ins, and guest guides, ensuring every guest's stay runs smoothly and efficiently while minimising the owner's effort.
Our onboarding process
Our structured onboarding process ensures your property is quickly bookable and meets our high standards.
STEP 1
Initial Consultation
At AltoLuxo Model, we will evaluate your property and discuss your requirements before creating a custom plan.
STEP 2
Property Setup
We'll prepare your property for guests, including furnishing and styling your property, with the option of a Full Furniture Package.
STEP 3
Marketing and Integration
Your property is integrated across multiple OTAs platforms with optimised listings and pricing, which helps you to get more visibility.
STEP 4
Property is live
Once everything is set, your property is officially live and ready to welcome guests.
Where we operate
We manage short lets in Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, Bath and Somerset, with the same team and the same standard in each.
What fills a holiday let in Chepstow and the Wye Valley
Race days are the easy part of a Chepstow calendar. Chepstow Racecourse, about 2 miles by road from our apartments, lists 28 race days in 2026, with the Welsh Grand National on Monday 28 December. The Wye Valley Walk and the Wales Coast Path both start in the town. Most people walk Offa's Dyke Path, which starts at Sedbury Cliffs nearby, between April and October.
Even if every race day sold, 28 leaves 154 let days still to find. The rest has to come from walkers and the working week. National Highways calls the M48 Severn Bridge mainly a commuter route, with traffic up 34% since the tolls were scrapped in 2018 and summer its quietest season. So the bridge's quiet months are the paths' busy ones. Those bookings are why a well-run property earns 30 to 50% more income than a tenancy, with no void periods.
Holiday let rules in Monmouthshire and Wales
Monmouthshire has charged second homes a 100% council tax premium since 1 April 2024, and billed 273 of them in 2025/26. To the council, a second home is a furnished property where no one lives or whose owner has a main home elsewhere. The council hasn't adopted the Welsh visitor levy. In July 2025 its leadership was reported as having no plans to bring it in during this council term.
The Welsh letting test has applied since 1 April 2023. A self-catering property is rated for business rates only if it was available for at least 252 days and let for at least 182 in the previous 12 months. Since 1 April 2026 a year that falls short still passes if the average over the previous two or three years reaches 182.
A Welsh Government consultation on the threshold closes on 23 October 2026. Monmouthshire's own destination manager told councillors in November 2024 that 182 is "too high". Until ministers decide otherwise, 182 still applies.
The Welsh register of visitor accommodation opened on 1 October 2026. Anyone already taking bookings of 31 nights or less has until 31 March 2027 to join it, free, through the Welsh Revenue Authority. A management company can register on your behalf, but the duty stays with you. Licensing became law on 27 April 2026 and hasn't started; its legal default start is March 2030.
What Chepstow owners ask
Does a Chepstow short let still book in winter?
Race days carry on through winter, because the racecourse's jump season runs from October to April. DEEP said in 2023 it was investing £100 million in a research campus for underwater living at Tidenham, about 2 miles by road from our apartments. Beachley Barracks, about 3 miles by road, stays in Army use until at least 2031 on current MOD plans. What thins out is the walking.
What happens if my Chepstow holiday let misses 182 days?
Unless its two or three year average still reaches 182, it's classed as domestic and council tax applies. Monmouthshire gives a property that moves across from business rates 12 months free of the second homes premium, though standard council tax is still due. From 1 April 2027 that one-year break is law across Wales.
Does a short let in Chepstow need planning permission?
Not by default. Since 20 October 2022 moving a home between main home, second home and short-term let has been permitted development in Wales, unless the council has removed that right with an Article 4 direction. Whether Monmouthshire has made one is a question for its planning team.
Do you offer holiday let management elsewhere in Monmouthshire and the Wye Valley?
We cover the county, though today every Monmouthshire property we run is one of the three apartments in central Chepstow, and none is a house. For a cottage near Tintern Abbey, about 6 miles by road from them, we'd check it will book well before anything is spent. Further out than we can look after properly, we'd rather say no than manage it badly from a distance.
The free income estimate gives a figure for your own property. On the Welsh side there's Airbnb management in Newport, and over the bridge there are Airbnb management in Bristol and Airbnb management in South Gloucestershire. The work sites within reach of the town are on contractor accommodation in Chepstow, and the Welsh rules are in the 182-day rule and licensing in Wales. Sedbury and Tutshill carry NP16 postcodes but sit in the Forest of Dean, so owners there come under short let rules in England in 2026.
Photos: Bristol Bs0u10e0 (CC BY-SA 2.0); Newport WelshDave (CC BY-SA 4.0); Cardiff Jeremy Segrott (CC BY 2.0); Bath Bärbel Miemietz (CC BY-SA 4.0); Somerset Lewis Clarke (CC BY-SA 2.0). Via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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