For hotels
Your rooms, your restaurant, one guest list.
Dinesurf gives hotels room booking on their own website, a front desk that knows who is arriving, and the restaurant’s tables, events and orders alongside, with every guest who stays or dines in one Guestbook.
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Trusted by restaurants, lounges and bars across Africa and beyond
- Businesses on Dinesurf
- 500+
- Covers booked
- 150K+
- Countries served
- 8+
- Monthly Google impressions to our restaurant businesses
- 700K+
The problem
Rooms in one system. The restaurant in another.
Room bookings arrive by phone, WhatsApp and the booking sites, the restaurant keeps its own book, and the guest who stayed three nights and dined twice is a stranger to both.
Who’s arriving today?
Bookings sit across WhatsApp, a spreadsheet and the phone, and housekeeping hears about check-outs last.
- Spreadsheet
Tables nobody can see.
Hotel guests and walk-ins book the restaurant in a separate book, with no deposits on the busy nights.
- Booking book
- Phone
The guest has gone home.
Nobody kept their details, so there is no way to invite them back for a weekend or a dinner.
- Guest register
- Broadcast lists
Rooms, tables and guests in different places. The next stay falls into the gaps.
One system
One guest record for the room, the table and the next stay.
Run · operations
Run the stay.
Room types and rate plans, bookings on your website, room statuses, check-in and check-out, extras and late checkout, on the web and in the app.
Own · customer marketing
Keep the guest.
Everyone who books a room or a table lands in your Guestbook. Newsletters and automations bring them back for the next stay or dinner.
Know · finance
Know what came in.
Room payments with the restaurant’s deposits and orders in Transactions, and today’s arrivals, departures and balances on the hotel overview.
The stay feeds the Guestbook. The Guestbook brings them back. That loop is how one stay becomes many.
01 · Rooms, booked online
Rooms booked and paid on your own website.
Set up your room types with photos, beds and amenities, and rate plans such as room only or bed and breakfast, each with its own nightly price, minimum stay and cancellation policy. Guests choose their dates and a room, pay online, and get their confirmation by email and WhatsApp.
- Room types, rooms and rate plans
- Guests book and pay on your website
- A cancellation policy for each rate plan
02 · The front desk
Every arrival and departure, on one screen.
The hotel overview shows today’s arrivals and departures and every room by status. Checking a guest in marks the room occupied, checking out sends it to housekeeping, and rooms under maintenance stop taking bookings. Walk-ins and phone bookings go in from the desk, paid in cash, by card or by transfer.
- Today’s arrivals, departures and balances
- Rooms by status, from occupied to housekeeping
- Walk-ins and phone bookings, on the web and in the app
03 · Extras and late checkout
Late checkout and extras, sold before they ask.
From their booking page, guests add a late checkout, an airport pickup or anything else you sell, and pay for it online. Late checkout is only offered as far as the next arrival and your cleaning time allow, and your team can add charges at the desk too.
- Extras guests buy from their booking
- Late checkout that respects the next arrival
- Charges added at the desk
04 · The hotel restaurant
Your restaurant, as full as your rooms.
Run the hotel’s restaurant, bar or lounge on Dinesurf too: table bookings with deposits, events and tickets, a menu with online ordering, and the POS, on its own account under the same login.
- Table bookings with deposits
- Events, tickets and private dining
- Online ordering and the POS
05 · The next stay
Last month’s guests, back for the weekend.
Everyone who books a room or a table lands in your Guestbook. Send a newsletter about the long weekend or the new menu, and let birthdays and win-backs go out on their own.
- Every room and table guest in your Guestbook
- Newsletters from your own domain
- Automations for birthdays, win-backs and thank-yous
Hotels with restaurants
Your restaurant, added to your hotel for free.
If your hotel has a restaurant, we add a restaurant account to your property at no extra cost, so it takes table bookings, deposits, events and orders alongside your rooms.
Talk to us about your hotelThe first restaurant is free
Its table bookings and deposits, events, menu and orders, run next to your rooms.
More restaurants
₦18,000 a month each
Every restaurant after the first, such as a rooftop bar or a second outlet.
One login for all of them
Switch between the hotel and each restaurant from the same account, each with its own menu, team and Guestbook.
The same guests, kept
A guest who stays and a guest who dines both join your Guestbooks, ready for the next newsletter.
Hotels already on Dinesurf
Hotels in Lagos run their restaurants on Dinesurf, with table bookings straight into their Guestbook.
Lala’s Lagos
The hotel’s restaurant, Lala’s Bistro in Victoria Island, takes its table bookings on Dinesurf.
Vintano Hotel
Vintano Hotel in Lagos takes its restaurant bookings on Dinesurf.
Questions
Dinesurf for hotels, answered
Can guests book rooms on our own website?
Yes. Your Dinesurf hotel website has room booking built in: guests choose their dates and a room, pick a rate plan and pay online. Bookings taken by phone or at the desk go in from the dashboard or the app.
How do guests pay for rooms?
Online through Paystack, in naira, when they book. At the desk, your team marks a booking as paid in cash, by card on your terminal or by bank transfer.
Can we take a deposit instead of the full amount?
Not for rooms yet: online room bookings are paid in full, and each rate plan’s cancellation policy sets the refund if a guest cancels. Your restaurant’s table bookings can take deposits.
Does Dinesurf connect to Booking.com or Expedia?
Not today. Dinesurf takes the bookings that come to you directly, on your website, by phone and at the desk, and keeps those guests in your Guestbook.
Can our restaurant use Dinesurf too?
Yes. We add a restaurant account to your hotel for free, for its table bookings, deposits, events, menu and orders. Each restaurant after the first is ₦18,000 a month in Nigeria, or $32 a month elsewhere.
Is there an app for the front desk?
Yes. Room types, rooms, bookings, extras and booking settings are in the Dinesurf app as well as on the web, and new room bookings arrive as notifications.
One plan
Everything on this page, in one plan.
No stack of six tools and six bills. One subscription for the whole guest journey, from the first search to the second visit.
See every tierStandard plan
Everything included₦68,000a month
Priced in naira for Nigeria. $82 a month in every other market. For full-service restaurants, lounges and hotels.
- Website and domain
- Bookings, deposits and events
- POS and kitchen
- Guestbook, newsletters and automations
- 1,000 newsletter sends a month, up to 30,000 on higher tiers
- AI staff in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more
Your guests, all the way round.
See your rooms and your restaurant on Dinesurf in a 30-minute demo.