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Casa Gaviota
A beachfront house in Barú, run like a small hospitality business
Casa Gaviota is a private beachfront house in Barú, Colombia, rented directly to guests rather than through a marketplace. The site, booking flow, and guest CRM are all built in-house — direct bookings, a WhatsApp lead pipeline, and a calendar synced against the usual channels, so the house runs less like a listing and more like a small hospitality operation.
The bet behind it: the room itself is close to a wash after fees and cleaning — the real margin is in what happens once someone’s already booked. Food, transport from Cartagena, and on-site experiences do more for the economics than another few dollars on the nightly rate, so the systems around the stay are built to make those easy to say yes to.