What photos do I need for my Rent to Serviced Accommodation (R2SA)?
To attract guests to book your rent to serviced accommodation, you must first draw their attention with an appealing property page.
The photographs are essential to this process. This article will show how to shoot photographs that will make your rent to serviced accommodation property enticing to prospective guests.
Why shoot pictures for R2SA?
Good real estate photography can capture stunning, well-lit, and realistic images of your serviced apartments.
Your photographs should depict all room kinds and amenities, as well as precise features, to fascinate and inspire guests. We recommend that you display at least 24 photographs of your property.
For your photographs to be properly presented on various digital platforms, they must be of uniformly high quality and resolution.
Your photography needs to:
- Provide guests with a visual tour of the rent to serviced accommodation (R2SA).
- Reflect the spirit and ambiance of the place.
- Accentuate the culture and history of your location.
- Depict the type of experience that visitors can anticipate during their stay.
What should be photographed?
Ensure that you photograph every room type — Single, Double/Twin, and Triple rooms.
Take a minimum of four photographs of each room type and at least one photograph of each bathroom and toilet.
Taking room photos
To showcase the best qualities of each room type, shoot photographs from a range of angles:
- From one corner, the entire room is visible.
- Observation from a different angle
- Unique room features/facilities
Distinctive room features may include:
- Views
- Balcony, terrace, and patio
- Living room, kitchen, and dining
- Tea and coffee facilities
- Interesting and distinctive ornamental details
You should photograph anything that distinguishes
your R2SA from others.
Room Presentation For Rent to Serviced Accommodation
Your photographs should accurately depict your R2SA and showcase its finest attributes.
All photographs must be uniformly clear, bright, and flattering, so clean and organise your rooms prior to taking photographs.
Your rooms must include:
- Open curtains
- Ambient illumination and lights on
- Freshly made beds
- Clean surfaces
- Unblemished carpeting and flooring
- No laundry visible
- No visible wires and cables
Take pictures of the following room amenities:
- Coffee and tea facilities
- Fridge
- Air cooling system
- Glasses/mugs
- Snack bar
- In-room safe
- Work station
Bathroom images are extremely significant to travelers, as they frequently indicate the overall cleanliness of the rent-to-serviced accommodation (R2SA) property investment.
Your restrooms must have:
- Ambient lighting activated
- Polished mirrors
- Unblemished shower/bathtub
- Open shower curtains
- Closed toilet lid
- No toilet paper, tissues, or trash cans in shot
Take pictures of the following room amenities:
- Dressing gown
- Hairdryer
- Toothbrush
- Complimentary toiletries
Pictures of facilities
Take photographs of all guest-accessible common areas in your rent to serviced accommodation (R2SA), such as:
- Entrance photo (both interior and exterior)
- Creating picture (street with building, surroundings)
- Lobby
- Restaurants and eating locations
- Buffet breakfast (food)
- Lounge/bar
- Swimming area
- Gaming area
- Fitness facility/gym
- Living spaces
- Kitchen facilities
- Beach
Images of additional facilities
You should also photograph various amenities and services offered to guests, including:
- Parking space
- Newspapers
- Luggage space
- Laundry and dry-cleaning service
- Tour/ticket counter with brochures (if separate from reception)
Your location
Travelers want to see a clear and accurate picture of your rent-to-serviced accommodation (R2SA) and its location when making a reservation.
Guests need to know precisely what the house looks like upon arrival, therefore you should capture exterior photographs that depict:
- The entryway
- The building’s façade in relation to the street
- The building’s exterior in relation to the street
Shooting Guidelines
- Use a digital camera.
- Shoot predominantly landscape (horizontal) photographs, as these seem best on Booking.com.
- Photographs must have a high resolution, with a minimum of 2048 x 1080 pixels and a preferred resolution of 4000 x 3000 pixels (the maximum uploadable file size for a single photo is 19MB).
- Take at least 24 photographs in total.
- Take photographs at a height of 100 to 160 cm (3-5ft). This preserves uniformity among images and is neutral from the perspective of the viewer.
- Maintain a focal length between 24 and 35 mm.
- Use room corners to add depth and dimension to your photographs.
- Try to photograph as much of each location as possible. Avoid cropping out furnishings or other things that are significant to the guest.
- Utilise a tripod to eliminate camera shake.
Technical requirements
The maximum file size that can be uploaded for a single picture is 19MB.
To ensure that your R2SA property photographs are displayed properly to prospective guests, you should avoid uploading:
- Grainy or distorted images
- Unfocused or tilted photographs
- Overly-edited photographs
- Filters, exaggerated contrast, oversaturation, or HDR
- Photo collages for serviced accommodation
- Images with watermarks or drawings
- Photos that are distorted, twisted, stretched, or otherwise deformed
Elements to avoid in R2SA Photographs
- Photographs of visitors, models, and land owners
- Photographs depicting nudity
- Images of brands, logos, or contact information
- People’s reflections in mirrors and windows
- Images with active televisions
- Images of technology that may become obsolete (telephones, alarm clocks, etc.)
- Photographs taken with an extreme, broad, or panoramic lens
- Images taken from excessively high or low angles
- Photos that are too dark (underexposed) or too vivid (overexposed).
- Photographs in monochrome.
