This is our own unit, a one-bedroom with a pool view at Mangroovy in El Gouna, and these are its last twelve months exactly as Hostaway recorded them. We score other owners' listings every week in the Leak Files, so ours goes on the table too: the good months, the bad months and the number we are not proud of.
Hostaway, arrivals 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. Six further stays (19 nights) arrived through an outside calendar with no price attached and are left out of the money figures.
The year, month by month
The unit sold 176 of 365 nights, 48% of the year. Autumn and spring carried it. April was the best month: 23 nights and USD 2,947. Then there is the winter.
Nights sold by arrival month. Gold bars are the months that paid for the year; the three dark bars are December to February.
The leak: three winter months, 12 nights
December, January and February sold 12 nights between them and earned USD 1,550, 9% of the year. The winter stays that did come were short and late: six stays of one to four nights, every one booked two weeks or less before arrival. Nobody booked a winter week. The unit did not get worse in December. It simply gave no one a reason to book more than a weekend.
The number we are not proud of
AirDNA puts the typical El Gouna listing at USD 126.70 a night and 49.7% occupancy over the last twelve months. We matched the occupancy and missed the rate by 24%. Part of that is size: the typical listing includes bigger apartments and villas, and ours is a one-bedroom. Part of it is ours to fix. A pool-view one-bedroom five minutes from Abu Tig should not price like an inland studio in shoulder season.
| Mangroovy 1BR | Typical El Gouna listing | |
|---|---|---|
| Average nightly rate | USD 97 | USD 126.70 |
| Share of nights sold | 48% | 49.7% |
| Revenue, 12 months | USD 17,046 | USD 19,219 |
AirDNA El Gouna submarket, trailing twelve months to July 2026, typical-listing basis.
Who booked, and how
Couples. 33 of the 46 paid stays were two guests, and the average stay was 3.8 nights, booked a median 20 days ahead. Airbnb brought 25 stays and USD 10,244. Booking.com brought 18 stays and USD 5,996. Expedia and Vrbo brought three between them.
That split is the second leak. Every one of those 46 stays paid a platform commission, and repeat guests had no reason to come to us direct because the direct price was not visibly lower. It is now: the same dates cost less on bnbhubs.com than on Airbnb.
What guests said
28 guests reviewed the unit in the same twelve months, averaging 8.96 out of 10, with 19 perfect tens. The complaints were small and specific; the praise was the location, the pool view and fast answers.
What an owner should take from this
- Give winter a product. If your winter only sells weekends, publish a weekly and a monthly rate before November, not after an empty December.
- Check your rate against the market, not your neighbour. Matching occupancy while missing the rate by a quarter is the most common leak we score, and it hides because the calendar looks busy.
- Give returning guests a reason to book direct. A visible direct price, a saved guest list and one message before their next trip.
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