Albany Hotel
Durban. Looked at for its owner on 18 October 2026, the way a guest and an AI assistant would.
- Your prices, and the commission booking sites take
- How your competitors price, day by day
You rank 4th of the 7 hotels we read in Durban
- 1stEmakhosini Boutique Hotel75
- 2ndBlue Waters Hotel71
- 2ndCoastlands Hotel (Musgrave)71
- 4thAlbany Hotel (you)63
- 5thThe Royal Hotel by Coastlands Hotels & Resorts58
- 6thPavilion Hotel43
- 7thBayside Hotel 116 West Street35
- Booking direct25 of 25Google shows your website's own price, and none of the main booking sites asks noticeably less
- Google Maps5 of 20Rated 3.4 from 2,494 reviews, 11th for “hotels in Durban”
- Your website11 of 20Scores 56 out of 100, with no button to book on its home page
What guests are asked to pay for your room
We looked up your room for the night of 30 October 2026 the way a guest would, on Google. Your own website holds its price, which is what you want; every guest who still books through a booking site costs you about 17% of the room.
- Your websiteR1 038
- ExpediaR1 023, R15 below you
- Booking.comR1 044
- AgodaR1 044
- Trip.comR1 099
- And 12 smaller sites (Wego, za.bluepillow.com and müv and others), from R1 041 to R1 462
The main booking sites ask about what your website does, within R15.
Your price against your competitors
Each hotel's lowest price on Google Hotels for the night of 30 October 2026. Prices move every day, and the hotels near you change theirs for busy nights first. With OneHorizyn you follow these prices for the nights ahead, and know when to raise yours and when to hold it.
- Albany Hotel (you)R582
- Pavilion HotelR656
- Blue Waters HotelR1 035
- Garden Court South BeachR1 530
- Garden Court Marine ParadeR1 651
- Southern Sun Elangeni & MaharaniR1 665
How you compare with 5 competitors in Durban
Pavilion Hotel comes first on Google Maps, and you 11th; they're rated 4.2 on Google on average, and you 3.4. These are the hotels of your kind within a few kilometres of you, the ones a guest choosing where to stay in Durban weighs you against.
| Hotel | AI recommends it | Google Maps rating | On Maps for “hotels in Durban” | Lowest price on Google Hotels | From you |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albany Hotel (you) | Not asked yet | 3.4 from 2,494 | 11th | R582 | |
| Southern Sun Elangeni & Maharani | Not asked yet | 4.4 from 11,264 | 4th | R1 665 | 1.6 km |
| Blue Waters Hotel | Not asked yet | 4.2 from 9,166 | 3rd | R1 035 | 2.2 km |
| Garden Court Marine Parade | Not asked yet | 4.3 from 5,504 | 6th | R1 651 | 1.2 km |
| Garden Court South Beach | Not asked yet | 4.2 from 5,168 | 2nd | R1 530 | 1.1 km |
| Pavilion Hotel | Not asked yet | 3.9 from 4,770 | 1st | R656 | 1.3 km |
Read on 18 October 2026. With OneHorizyn you follow these hotels every week: their prices on every booking site, their reviews and what AI assistants say about them.
You come 11th on Google Maps for “hotels in Durban”
Most guests who search the map choose from the first ten hotels it shows. You're rated 3.4 from 2,494 reviews. Pavilion Hotel (first), Garden Court South Beach (second) and Blue Waters Hotel (third) come before you.
- Answer every review, the poor ones first and within a day
- Ask happy guests for a review as they check out
- Add new photos of your rooms every month
- Keep your phone number, website and hours right on your listing
With OneHorizyn you see your place on the map and your reviews against your competitors', every week.
- 1stPavilion Hotel3.9 from 4,770
- 2ndGarden Court South Beach4.2 from 5,168
- 3rdBlue Waters Hotel4.2 from 9,166
- 4thSouthern Sun Elangeni & Maharani4.4 from 11,264
- 6thGarden Court Marine Parade4.3 from 5,504
- 11thAlbany Hotel (you)3.4 from 2,494
The bars are each hotel's number of Google reviews.
Your website's health is 56 out of 100
We read 6 pages of albanyhotel.co.za on 18 October 2026, the way Google and AI assistants do, and found 20 things to fix. These cost you the most guests:
- 1Google writes its own line about your hotel
Your pages give Google no summary to show under your name, so it picks any sentence it finds.
What to do: Write two sentences about your hotel for each main page: what it is, where, and why guests love it.
- 2Nothing on your website says what makes your hotel special
AI assistants look for a page about a hotel to describe it to guests.
What to do: Add a page about your hotel: its story, what's special, and what's nearby.
- 3Your website is heavy on a phone
Most guests look on their phone, often on mobile data, and leave a page that's slow to open.
What to do: Ask whoever looks after your website to compress your photos and files.
- No button to book on your home page, so a guest who wants to book direct has to hunt for one
- A WhatsApp link for guests
- No phone number a guest can tap to call
- AI assistants can read your website
Two things to do this week
Each one comes from what we found above, and each wins back guests who book you direct.
- 1Keep your website the cheapest place to book
None of the main booking sites asks less than your website today. One rate change on any of them undoes it.
How: Check your price on each of them every week, and on your busy dates every day.
- 2Google writes its own line about your hotel
Your pages give Google no summary to show under your name, so it picks any sentence it finds.
How: Write two sentences about your hotel for each main page: what it is, where, and why guests love it.
With OneHorizyn you see every week whether each one worked, in guests and in rupees.
We've already done 3 of the 6 readings your first look is built from
Everything above came from what anyone can see: Google, Google Hotels, Google Maps, an AI assistant and your own website. Your hotel's own reading fills in the rest and turns each finding into a figure you can act on.
- Your price on booking sites16 sites for one night
- Google and Google Mapsrated 3.4 from 2,494 reviews
- Your website6 pages read, health 56 out of 100
- What AI assistants saynot read yet
- Your reviews, week by weekonly on your own hotel's reading
- Your price every night aheadonly on your own hotel's reading
Your own reading takes about half an hour, and nothing has to be connected to your systems.
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- Weddings and events
- Conferences and company travel
- Travel agents and tour operators
- Events that publish a list of hotels
- The nights your town fills up
- What your competitors charge, nightly
- Weddings and events
The planners and families booking weddings in Durban, who fill your rooms for three nights at a time and never touch a booking site.
- Conferences and company travel
The companies running meetings and incentive trips near you, and the firms whose staff already stay in Durban every week.
- Travel agents and tour operators
The agents and operators selling Durban to guests abroad, who send the same rooms again and again once you're on their list.
- Events that publish a list of hotels
Festivals, matches and conferences in and around Durban that name hotels to stay at. Being on that list costs nothing, and most hotels never ask.
- The nights your town fills up
Which dates Durban runs out of rooms months ahead, so you price them before your competitors do, rather than after.
- What your competitors charge, nightly
Their price for every night ahead, not the one night on this page, so you know which nights you are leaving money on.
Stop losing R1 269 to R2 379 a month for each room
OneHorizyn finds where your hotel loses money and tells you what to fix first, every week:
- Booking sitesWhen they sell your room for less than your own website, so more guests book you direct
- Your competitorsTheir prices in Durban for the nights ahead, so you price every night right
- Google and AIWhat they tell guests about you, and how to get recommended first