SuperAnfitriões Review 2026: Fees, Coverage and What to Ask

SuperAnfitriões publishes a rate, which in this market is normal and in the American one is rare. As of August 2026 it charges Check-in EUR 20 each / Gestao de Reservas 10% / SuperAnfitriao 25%, all + IVA. This page sets out what that number buys, what it is charged on, and what it leaves for you to pay.

Everything below was read from SuperAnfitriões’s own site in August 2026 and from our directory of Portuguese Alojamento Local managers. We compete with this company, so we have kept to what it says about itself.

SuperAnfitriões at a glance

The clearest published menu in the Portuguese set, and it is genuinely a menu rather than a package: EUR 20 per check-in for the check-in service alone, “10% de cada reserva” for booking management, and “25% de cada reserva” for the full SuperAnfitriao tier that adds the welcome service, bed linen, bathroom towels and consumables.

All plus VAT, with the note “Percentagem ajustavel de acordo com as caracteristicas da propriedade”. It also states “Sem contrato de permanencia” – no lock-in.

Describes itself as an Alojamento Local management company aimed at the “gama media-alta” – the upper-middle end of the market.

How much does SuperAnfitriões charge?

The published figure is Check-in EUR 20 each / Gestao de Reservas 10% / SuperAnfitriao 25%, all + IVA. The number is only half the answer, because a percentage means nothing until you know what it is charged on.

• What is the base? Gross booking value, net of the platform’s commission, and net of cleaning are three different amounts. The same headline percentage can differ by a fifth of your income depending on which one applies.
• What is billed on top? Cleaning, linen, consumables, maintenance call-outs, photography, and the administration of the tourist tax.
• Does the rate change by season? Several Portuguese operators price differently for the summer peak.

Priced per task, not per booking

This operator prices by service rather than as a share of revenue, which is rare in Portugal and changes the arithmetic completely. A fixed monthly fee and a per-check-in charge do not scale with what the property earns – so the cost is predictable, and it does not fall when the year is poor.

That inverts the usual incentive question. A percentage-based manager earns more when you earn more, which aligns you; a per-service manager earns the same whether the calendar is full or empty, which does not. Neither is wrong, but they suit different properties.

Do the sum both ways before you decide. On a high-earning property a fixed fee is usually the cheaper structure by a wide margin; on a property that books lightly it can cost more than a percentage would, and it costs it in the months when there is least coming in.

Alojamento Local: the questions that outlast the fee

AL is the registration a Portuguese property needs before it can take short-term guests. It is national law applied locally, so what it means for you depends on where the property is – and this company works Porto and the north.

Porto ran the same containment argument as Lisbon and restricted new AL registrations in central parishes at various points, with new registrations again permitted as of January 2026. The city is smaller and the historic centre is smaller still, so the difference between a permitted street and a restricted one can be a few hundred metres.

The registration is held by a named person as well as by the property. Ask whose name goes on it. A manager who wants the licence in its own name is asking for something worth more than the commission.

The tourist tax is charged per guest per night and remitted to the council. It passes through you rather than to you, and it should appear as a separate line rather than inside the revenue figure.

Whatever the region, three contract questions outlast the percentage:

• Whose name is on the registration? If it is the manager’s rather than yours, leaving is not simply a matter of notice.
• Who deals with the council? Lisbon and Porto have both restricted new registrations in central parishes at various points.
• Who collects and remits the tourist tax? It is charged per guest per night, it belongs to the council, and it is not your income.
• What happens if the rules change mid-contract? Ask before you need the answer.

SuperAnfitriões vs One Fine BnB

We are a management company and we compete with SuperAnfitriões, so treat that table as our side of the argument and check theirs. What we will not do is publish a score out of five for a competitor we have never been a customer of – see our management FAQ for how we think about fees generally.

The market this company is actually working in

Porto is a smaller, denser market than Lisbon and a newer one. Demand is city-break led, weighted to spring and autumn, and the historic core where most lettable stock sits is compact enough that a manager can genuinely cover it on foot.

That compactness is the north’s real advantage and it is worth testing. An operator based in Baixa can attend a property in twenty minutes; one covering Porto from Lisbon cannot, whatever the coverage map says.

The Douro and the Minho behind the city are a different proposition again – rural, seasonal, and dependent on a car. A manager who does both is running two operations, and it is fair to ask which one your property sits in.

Four things to settle in writing before you sign

Most disputes are not about the percentage. These four are the ones specific to letting in Portugal:

• Whose name is on the AL registration. If it is the manager’s rather than yours, leaving is a negotiation, not a notice period.
• The base the fee is charged on. Gross, net of platform commission, or net of cleaning – all three are in use here, and the same percentage on a different base is a different bill.
• Who collects and remits the tourist tax, and how it appears on your statement. It is not your income.
• Whose account holds the listing, and therefore who keeps the reviews when you leave.

The rest – owner stays, maintenance authority, payout timing, notice period, minimum term – is the same in every market and is covered in our management FAQ.

A worked example, in euros

Meet Ana. She owns a two-bedroom flat that took ~€38,000 in gross bookings across 168 nights last year, turning over about 40 times. Here is that year at the rate this company publishes.

• Gross bookings: ~€38,000
• Platform commission at ~15%: ~€5,700, leaving ~€32,300
• SuperAnfitriões at 25% on gross: ~€9,500
• The same 25% charged on net instead: ~€8,075
• Difference from the base alone: ~€1,425 a year
• Cleaning at ~€45 a turnover: ~€1,800, whoever manages it

In plain English: the same 25%, written the same way in two contracts, is worth ~€1,425 a year depending on which number it multiplies. Ana did not negotiate the rate down – she asked what it was charged on. That is not hypothetical here: at least one operator in this directory states plainly that its percentage applies to the net amount.

Published rate: SuperAnfitriao at 25%. Against the Portuguese range that sits toward the top – which tells you where to start asking, not whether it is good value.

Figures here are illustrative and worked from published rates, not measured on any real property.

Where SuperAnfitriões sits against the published Portuguese range

17 operators in our Portuguese directory publish a comparable full-service rate. At 25%, SuperAnfitriões is the 12th cheapest of them.

A wide range is not evidence that the cheap end is a bargain. It usually means the plans are not the same job – and in Portugal the cheapest published tiers are typically online-only, with the cleaning and the keys left with you.

What SuperAnfitriões discloses, and what it leaves for the call

How much a company says in public is not how good it is, but it decides how much homework you can do before you telephone. This is what sits on its own site:

4 of the five answered in public. That is unusually open for this market. Performance figures, where published, are always the company’s own numbers about its own portfolio and are reproduced here as such.

What no management fee covers here

Condominium charges on an apartment, which do not pause out of season. IMI and income tax – AL income is business income and is declared as such. Insurance written for short-term letting rather than for a home you live in.

Furnishing and replacement, because guest turnover wears a property faster than a tenant does. And the tourist tax, collected from the guest and remitted to the council – money that passes through you rather than to you.

Budget for those separately or the percentage will look cheaper than the year turns out to be.

Where SuperAnfitriões operates

Our own guides to these markets list the operators working in each, including the local ones that never appear in a national comparison:

• Management companies in Douro Valley
• Management companies in Penhas Da Saude
• Management companies in Vila Nova De Milfontes

How to tell whether this manager is performing

Occupancy on its own tells you almost nothing – any property fills at a low enough price. Ask monthly, in writing, for revenue per available night rather than occupancy, the share of nights won outside the peak, average length of stay, and the trend in review scores rather than the headline number. A manager who reports those without being chased is telling you something about how the business is run.

You are also allowed to ask for a price on your specific property before you sign anything. A good answer names numbers – a rate for August and a rate for October, an expected number of nights, what the percentage is charged on, what cleaning costs per turnover, and who holds the AL. An answer about passion and peace of mind that arrives at no number at all is the same non-answer you would not accept from a builder.

How to switch managers in Portugal

Changing manager is more involved here than in most US markets, because the licence and the listing can end up in different hands.

• Check whose name is on the AL. Porto’s central parishes carry the same registration history as Lisbon’s.
• Ask who actually attends the property. The historic core is small enough to cover on foot, so a handover to somebody based outside it is a real downgrade even at the same price.
• Establish who owns the listing. A listing built under the manager’s account takes its reviews with it when you leave.
• Honour the bookings already taken. Guests holding a reservation are not part of the dispute.
• Time it for the low season. Changing hands in July is a decision you make once.

Alternatives to SuperAnfitriões

The honest comparison is not us against SuperAnfitriões; it is the shape of the deal against your situation. Our directory of Portuguese managers lists everyone we could verify, grouped by region, with published rates where a company discloses one.

• If you want the whole job taken off you: compare full-service quotes on scope, not on headline rate. Ours is Full Service 20%.
• If you already have a cleaner you trust: a remote or digital tier is usually the better value. Ours is Partner 10%.
• If you are in one market only: a local operator who knows the council is worth more than national coverage. See our locations directory.

Who this company suits, and who it does not

No manager is right for every property, and a page that says otherwise is selling something.

• It suits you if your property sits inside the markets listed above and you want a manager who already works that council’s rules rather than one learning them on your listing.
• It suits you less if you are outside those markets. Coverage on a map is not the same as somebody twenty minutes away when a boiler fails in August.
• Look elsewhere if you need a specific scope this company does not itemise – most disagreements start as an assumption about what was included.

Compare it with the others

The closest comparison is the other operators working Porto and the north: Da Home, YourHost, Tons de Verde. The same questions applied to the rest of the directory:

• Coral Algarve review
• MasterHost review
• The Albufeira Concierge review
• Propr review
• Off Limits Madeira review
• Homeful review

Or start from the full Portuguese directory, which groups every operator we verified by region. If you are weighing Portugal against a US market, our management-near-me guide and the service overview cover how we work in both.

Sources and method

Read from SuperAnfitriões’s own website in August 2026 and stated as of that date. Its pages were also scored against a vocabulary taken from the search queries Portuguese owners actually use, to confirm it manages Alojamento Local for third-party owners rather than letting on long leases or listing only its own homes.

Our own rates are stated in full above: Full Service 20%, Partner 10% of rental revenue, plus a one-time $500 onboarding retainer, with no long-term contract. More on how we work is on our management page, and the full Portuguese list is in the directory.

Disclosure: One Fine BnB is a management company and competes with the companies named here. Every figure comes from each company’s own website and is dated August 2026.