The Ryder Hotel

Charleston, South Carolina. Looked at for its owner on 18 October 2026, the way a guest and an AI assistant would.

Revenue you could be losing

$502 to $942 a month

For each room you have

Because of

Your prices, and the commission booking sites take
Your AI score, 0 of 5
How your competitors price, day by day

And it doesn't end there.

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Your website health

60 out of 100

15 things to fix

Your AI score

0 of 5

AI answers about Charleston that recommend you

Google reviews

4 out of 5

Below your competitors, 4.3 on average

Your price vs nearby hotels

$330 vs $425

$95 a night cheaper than them, each at its lowest on Google Hotels

Your overall score

You rank 2nd of the 8 hotels we read in Charleston

52out of 100

The hotels we read in Charleston, by overall score

Why you rank 2nd

Booking direct25 of 25
Google shows your website's own price, and none of the main booking sites asks noticeably less
AI assistants0 of 20
AI recommends you in 0 of 5 answers about Charleston
Google Maps6 of 20
Rated 4 from 825 reviews, not in the first 7 for “hotels in Charleston”
Your website12 of 20
Scores 60 out of 100, with no button to book on its home page
Your price vs competitors9 of 15
$95 a night below the hotels near you

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Pricing: your price online

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.

Every site on Google Hotels, for the night of 30 October 2026

Your website$405
Expedia$409
Travelocity$409
Orbitz$409
Booking.com$414
Priceline$414
And 21 smaller sites (Vio, GoSeek and DealBase and others), from $346 to $612

None of the main booking sites asks less than your website here.

Pricing: your price against your competitors

You charge $95 a night less than your competitors

Each hotel's lowest price on Google Hotels for the night of 30 October 2026. When guests rate you as highly as them, charging less leaves money on every room you sell. With OneHorizyn you follow these prices for the nights ahead, and know when to raise yours and when to hold it.

Francis Marion Hotel$217
The Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel$273
The Ryder Hotel (you)$330
Mills House Charleston, Curio Collection by Hilton$425
The Charleston Place$553

Competition

How you compare with 5 competitors in Charleston

AI recommends The Charleston Place in 3 of 5 answers, and you in 0; The Charleston Place comes first on Google Maps, and you outside the first 7; they're rated 4.3 on Google on average, and you 4. These are the hotels of your kind within a few kilometres of you, the ones a guest choosing where to stay in Charleston weighs you against.

Hotel	AI recommends it	Google Maps rating	On Maps for “hotels in Charleston”	Lowest price on Google Hotels	From you
The Ryder Hotel (you)	0 of 5	4 from 825	Not in the first 7	$330
Mills House Charleston, Curio Collection by Hilton	1 of 5	4.3 from 2,660	7th	$425	0.5 km
Francis Marion Hotel	1 of 5	4.3 from 2,537	4th	$217	0.6 km
The Charleston Place	3 of 5	4.7 from 2,512	1st	$553	0.1 km
The Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel	0 of 5	4.5 from 2,295	2nd	$273	0.7 km
Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Historic District	1 of 5	3.6 from 1,752	6th	Not shown	0.7 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.

Google Maps

You're not in the first 7 on Google Maps for “hotels in Charleston”

Most guests who search the map choose from the first ten hotels it shows. You're rated 4 from 825 reviews. The Charleston Place (first), The Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel (second) and Francis Marion Hotel (fourth) come before you.

What moves you up the map

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.

Where you and your competitors come for “hotels in Charleston”

1stThe Charleston Place4.7 from 2,512
2ndThe Vendue, Charleston's Art Hotel4.5 from 2,295
4thFrancis Marion Hotel4.3 from 2,537
6thEmbassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Historic District3.6 from 1,752
7thMills House Charleston, Curio Collection by Hilton4.3 from 2,660
100+The Ryder Hotel (you)4 from 825

The bars are each hotel's number of Google reviews.

What AI tells guests

AI doesn't recommend you when guests ask about Charleston

More and more guests ask an AI assistant where to stay before they search, and book from the shortlist it gives them. We asked one, Claude, the five questions guests ask most, on 18 October 2026, letting it search the web as it answered.

“Where should I stay in Charleston? Name the best hotels.”
You're not named
1. 1. Belmond Charleston Place
2. 2. French Quarter Inn
3. 3. Hotel Bennett
4. 4. The Spectator Hotel
5. 5. Market Pavilion Hotel
“What are the best luxury hotels in Charleston?”
You're not named
1. 1. Belmond Charleston Place
2. 2. Hotel Bennett
3. 3. Planters Inn
4. 4. French Quarter Inn
5. 5. Market Pavilion Hotel
6. 6. Grand Bohemian Hotel Charleston
7. 7. The Spectator Hotel
“What are the best hotels in Charleston for a family holiday?”
You're not named
1. 1. Embassy Suites Historic Charleston
2. 2. Belmond Charleston Place
3. 3. Hotel Bennett
4. 4. The Mills House
5. 5. Hampton Inn Charleston Historic District
6. 6. The Beach Club at Charleston Harbor Resort & Marina
7. 7. John Rutledge House Inn
“What are the best hotels in Charleston for couples?”
You're not named
1. 1. Planters Inn
2. 2. French Quarter Inn
3. 3. John Rutledge House Inn
4. 4. Andrew Pinckney Inn
“What are good value hotels in Charleston?”
You're not named
1. 1. Indigo Inn
2. 2. Francis Marion Hotel
3. 3. Hampton Inn Charleston Historic District
4. 4. Meeting Street Inn
5. 5. Courtyard by Marriott Charleston Historic District

Your website

Your website's health is 60 out of 100

We read 6 pages of theryderhotel.com on 18 October 2026, the way Google and AI assistants do, and found 15 things to fix. These cost you the most guests:

1
Your home page doesn't say whose it is
Google and AI assistants read a page's title and top line to know what it is about.
What to do: Put your hotel's name and town in your home page's title and as its first heading.
2
Your website asks Google not to show a page
That page can't be found on Google at all.
What to do: Ask whoever looks after your website to remove the setting that hides it.
3
Your 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
No WhatsApp link, where most guests in India ask first
A phone number a guest can tap to call
AI assistants can read your website

What to do this week

Three things to do this week

Each one comes from what we found above, and each wins back guests who book you direct.

1
Keep 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.
2
Give AI assistants a reason to recommend you
Asked about where to stay, family holidays and couples' stays in Charleston, AI recommended Belmond Charleston Place and French Quarter Inn and others, not you.
How: Add a page to your website for each kind of guest, with your rooms, prices and what's nearby. AI assistants recommend the hotels whose pages answer the guest's question.
3
Your home page doesn't say whose it is
Google and AI assistants read a page's title and top line to know what it is about.
How: Put your hotel's name and town in your home page's title and as its first heading.

With OneHorizyn you see every week whether each one worked, in guests and in rupees.

What a full reading adds

We've already done 4 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.

The readings your first look is built from

Your price on booking sites26 sites for one night
Google and Google Mapsrated 4 from 825 reviews
Your website6 pages read, health 60 out of 100
What AI assistants say5 questions about Charleston
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.

What this page doesn't cover at all

The guests who never come through a booking site

There is no commission on any of these, and this page says nothing about them. We haven't looked at any of them for you.

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

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Weddings and events
The planners and families booking weddings in Charleston, 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 Charleston every week.
Travel agents and tour operators
The agents and operators selling Charleston 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 Charleston 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 Charleston 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 $502 to $942 a month for each room

OneHorizyn finds where your hotel loses money and tells you what to fix first, every week:

Booking sites
When they sell your room for less than your own website, so more guests book you direct
Your competitors
Their prices in Charleston for the nights ahead, so you price every night right
Google and AI
What they tell guests about you, and how to get recommended first

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