Call The Front Desk vs. Touch Stay
Short version: Touch Stay is one of the best digital guidebooks you can buy. Call The Front Desk is a different animal — a hotel phone with an AI concierge, with a guidebook included. Here's the honest breakdown, including where Touch Stay wins.
Side by side
| Touch Stay | Call The Front Desk | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Digital guidebook (web app) | Concierge hotel phone + included guest guide |
| How guests use it | Open a link or scan a QR, read or type to the chatbot | Lift the receiver and talk — plus the same link/QR guide |
| Works for | Guests who open the link | Everyone in the house — no mobile phone or link needed |
| AI answers | Text chatbot on your content | Voice concierge on your content + live weather, drive times, local events |
| Upsells | Upsell widget in the guide | Offered in conversation when relevant; payment link by text; you keep 100% (your Stripe) |
| Reaching the host | Contact details in the guide | Screens questions first; live-transfers real ones to you on your hours, takes messages after |
| Stay-aware | PMS integrations personalize content | Calendar sync: greets by name, gates door codes to checked-in guests, calendar-aware early/late checkout offers |
| Languages | 5 interface languages | English today |
| Hardware | None needed | Corded WiFi phone, pre-configured, plug into power |
| Price | ~$99–118/yr per property | $149 phone + $29/mo per property (30 days included) |
| Availability | Worldwide | US properties, for now |
Choose Touch Stay if…
- Your guests are international and multi-language content matters
- Your property is outside the US
- You want the lowest possible cost and your listing generates few questions
Choose Call The Front Desk if…
- Guests text you anyway because nobody opens the guidebook — the phone answers the people who ask out loud
- You want upsells sold in conversation, with 100% of the revenue in your Stripe account
- You want a screen between you and 11pm questions, with real emergencies still reaching you live
- You like that the guidebook is included and stays in sync with what the phone says
Touch Stay is a trademark of its owner; we're not affiliated. Details above reflect public information as of August 2026 — if something's out of date, tell us at [email protected] and we'll fix it.
Common questions
Is Call The Front Desk a replacement for Touch Stay?
Sometimes, but they're different categories. Touch Stay is a digital guidebook — a polished web page guests open. Call The Front Desk is a physical concierge phone guests talk to, and it includes its own mobile guidebook built from the same answers. If you switch, you keep the guidebook concept and add the phone.
Can I use both together?
You can — some hosts keep an existing guidebook for pre-arrival and let the phone handle in-stay questions. But since every Call The Front Desk property includes a guest guide (link + QR card in the box), most hosts consolidate to avoid maintaining the same answers twice.
Which is cheaper?
Touch Stay, clearly: roughly $99–118 per year per property versus our $149 phone plus $29/month. You're not paying us for a better guidebook — you're paying for a concierge that answers out loud, sells your upsells in conversation, and keeps guest questions off your own phone.
Does Touch Stay have AI too?
Yes — a text chatbot inside the guidebook, trained on your content. The difference is the interface: their AI answers guests who open the web page and type. Ours answers anyone who picks up the receiver and talks, including live lookups like weather and drive times, plus call transfers to you when it matters.
Hear the difference — call our demo concierge right now.
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