How Pre-Arrival Grocery Service Is Creating Hotel-Like Experiences with Milad Ghods of Bellhopt
What if you could offer hotel-level concierge service to your vacation rental guests without adding any workload to your team? Milad Ghods, co-founder of Bellhopt, joins Lynell Gordon on The Vacation Rental Show to share how his company is solving a problem 87% of guests experience: making that first-day grocery run. After countless trips where he and his co-founder arrived exhausted at rentals only to find empty refrigerators, they created a pre-arrival grocery service that operates entirely on autopilot for property managers.
In this episode, Milad reveals how Bellhopt's ordering platform with 20,000 SKUs creates magazine-perfect refrigerator presentations across 20 states. He discusses the white-label approach that makes property managers the heroes, the integration capabilities that eliminate operational burden, and the results-driven business model with no subscriptions, no contracts, and automatic commission payouts. Most remarkably, Bellhopt has achieved 100% property manager retention over 4.5 years. Discover how concierge services are becoming the secret weapon for differentiation in an increasingly competitive market.
This episode is sponsored by Streamline.
The vacation rental industry promises travelers the comforts of home with hotel-like amenities, but there's been a persistent gap between that promise and reality. In this episode of The Vacation Rental Show, host Lynell Gordon speaks with Milad Ghods, co-founder of Bellhopt, about how his company is bridging that gap through pre-arrival concierge services.
What you'll learn:
- Why 87% of vacation rental guests make first-day grocery runs and how this impacts their experience
- How Bellhopt's 20,000-SKU ordering platform creates seamless guest experiences across 20 states
- The white-label philosophy that makes property managers the heroes of every interaction
- Why Bellhopt's business model with no subscriptions, no contracts, and automatic commission payouts achieves 100% retention
- How PMS integration enables concierge services to run on complete autopilot
- The presentation standards that create magazine-perfect refrigerator experiences
Milad shares the personal travel frustrations that led to Bellhopt's creation. After repeatedly arriving exhausted at vacation rentals with empty refrigerators and closed grocery stores, he and his co-founder saw an opportunity. They surveyed 3,000 people and discovered that 87% made convenience or grocery store trips on their first day of arrival, revealing a massive market void.
Four and a half years later, Bellhopt serves 400 property managers with 10,000 properties across 20 states. Their secret weapon approach focuses entirely on making property managers successful. By keeping their branding minimal and handling everything from automated messaging to detailed refrigerator stocking, they enable property managers to offer premium differentiation without operational complexity.
Milad also discusses Bellhopt's breakthrough experience at Streamline Summit, where as first-time exhibitors they saw lines of property managers at their booth and unprecedented exposure for a growing company. The integration with Streamline and other property management systems allows for automatic property information flow, housekeeping coordination, and entry code management.
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