Terms of service

Last updated 2026-09-29

FluxStays (fluxstays.com) is operated by FluxSoft Technologies LLC, a US limited liability company. By browsing FluxStays, searching for a stay, planning a trip, or claiming or listing a property, you agree to these terms.

1. What FluxStays is

FluxStays is a free, zero-commission directory of independent hotels, lodges and travel operators, open today in 26 countries. FluxStays is a software company, not a travel agency and not an online travel agency (OTA): it never takes a percentage of a room night, never holds a booking deposit, and never sells a room itself.

FluxStays never renders a payment field and never sees your card. When you continue to a hotel from a FluxStays page, you leave FluxStays and book directly with that hotel, on its own site, its own booking engine, or by phone or WhatsApp. FluxStays is not a party to that booking. The contract for your stay is between you and the hotel alone.

2. Prices, availability and accuracy

Where FluxStays shows a nightly rate, it already includes the taxes of the country the stay is in, on the first card — no fee is added later in the flow on this site. That price comes from the hotel or from a public listing and can be out of date by the time you reach the hotel; FluxStays does not guarantee it. Always confirm the final price and availability with the hotel before you pay.

A "last rooms" or scarcity badge is only ever shown when live inventory in the database is genuinely at or below two units. FluxStays does not use countdown timers or manufactured urgency.

The trip planner is an AI assistant. It suggests listed stays from public facts and can make mistakes. Always confirm rates, availability and details with the hotel before you book. FluxStays is not a party to your booking.

3. Unclaimed listings

Some properties on FluxStays are listed without the owner having created the listing — an unclaimed listing carries only public facts (name, address, coordinates, phone) and photos FluxStays is licensed to use. A listing is never an endorsement of the property or the operator. If you own a property listed here and want it corrected, claimed or removed, email [email protected]; a takedown request is answered within 24 hours.

Location data on FluxStays draws on OpenStreetMap and is used and attributed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.

Place data also draws on the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org, © OpenStreetMap contributors, Overture Maps Foundation, CDLA-Permissive-2.0) and on Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache License 2.0). The Foursquare notice, reproduced in full as its licence requires:

Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Listings are also checked against official national lodging registries, each used under its own terms:

• Guatemala: Instituto Guatemalteco de Turismo (INGUAT), Listado general de establecimientos de hospedaje; public registry, reuse terms not stated on the file.
• Peru: Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (MINCETUR), Establecimientos de hospedaje calificados, open data (mincetur.gob.pe/Datos_abiertos); reuse terms not stated on the file.
• Brazil: Ministério do Turismo, CADASTUR Meios de Hospedagem (dados.turismo.gov.br), Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0.
• Colombia: Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo, Registro Nacional de Turismo (RNT) (datos.gov.co), Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
• Ecuador: Ministerio de Turismo (MINTUR), Catastro turístico (servicios.turismo.gob.ec); reuse terms not stated on the file.

4. Claiming a listing

Claiming a listing does not transfer ownership instantly. A claim is verified by a phone call to the number published on the property's own Google listing, with a six-digit code read back, or by email on the property's own domain as a fallback. Submitting a claim you are not authorized to make, or impersonating an owner or operator, is a violation of these terms and may be reported.

5. Reviews

A review can only be written with a single-use link that comes from a real stay: a checkout in the hotel's own booking system, a stay booked through FluxStays and confirmed by the hotel, or an invitation FluxStays sends to a guest the hotel names. Links expire after 30 days. Every review, positive or negative, goes through the same checks and is shown whatever its rating; a review is removed only under the rules on the "How reviews work" page, and every removal is logged. The author can delete their own review at any time.

Review rules for hotels: invite every guest who stayed, not a selection; offer nothing for a review; never write, commission or submit a review of your own property or ask staff, family or friends to; reply at most once to each review, without personal details or threats. A hotel that breaks these rules loses the right to invite guests, and its invited reviews are checked again.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to scrape or bulk-extract FluxStays' data outside the published feeds and API (/llms.txt, the per-stay markdown sheets, and the /mcp endpoint, each rate-limited and documented for that purpose); not to submit a false claim, a false review, or fraudulent contact details; and not to attempt to disrupt, overload or reverse-engineer the service beyond normal use.

AI agents and automated assistants are welcome to use the published feeds and the /mcp endpoint under the same rate limits published there — this is a deliberate part of how FluxStays is built, not an exception granted case by case.

7. Intellectual property

The FluxStays name, logo and site design belong to FluxSoft Technologies LLC. Listing photos are used either with the property's own permission, under a licence that permits reuse (with the credit shown on the listing), or drawn from OpenStreetMap-linked sources with attribution. A property owner who believes a photo is used without the right permission can request its removal at [email protected].

8. Third-party links

FluxStays links out to hotel websites, hotel booking engines, WhatsApp, Uber, Waze and Google or Apple Maps. FluxStays does not control and is not responsible for the content, availability or practices of any site you reach from one of these links.

9. No warranty, limitation of liability

FluxStays is provided "as is". FluxStays does not warrant that a listing is accurate, current or available, and is not liable for a booking made with a hotel, a dispute between you and a hotel, or a loss arising from information on this site being out of date. Nothing here is meant to disclaim a liability that the law of your country does not allow FluxStays to disclaim.

10. Changes to the service and these terms

FluxStays may change or discontinue any part of the service, and may update these terms as the product grows. The date at the top of this page shows when it last changed. Continued use of FluxStays after a change means you accept the updated terms.

11. Governing law

FluxSoft Technologies, LLC is a Delaware (US) company. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without prejudice to the mandatory consumer protections of the country you live in.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms, a takedown request, or a dispute about a listing: [email protected]

See also: Privacy and data