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Booking.com Photo Requirements: Size, Count and What to Avoid
Booking.com's photo bar is higher than Airbnb's: 2048 pixels wide at the minimum, at least ten photos, and set rules for height and angle. Here are the rules in one place and how to check your photos against them.
What Booking.com requires
These come from Booking.com's partner help centre. The resolution minimum is double what Airbnb asks for, so check it first.
| Requirement | In practice |
|---|---|
| At least 2048 × 1080 pixels (4000 × 3000 preferred) | About 2.2 megapixels at the minimum. Current phone photos clear it. Photos sent through a messaging app or imported back from a listing often don't. |
| Landscape (horizontal) only | Booking.com shows photos in landscape, so vertical shots are cropped or wasted. |
| At least 10 photos | At least four per room or unit, and at least one of the bathroom and toilet. A condo hotel or aparthotel is asked for at least 24. |
| Camera height of 3 to 5 feet (about 1 to 1.5 m) | Roughly chest height. A phone held level at your sternum does it. |
| Shoot from room corners | Corners show two walls and the depth of the room. |
| 360° photos: 2:1 ratio, at least 1280 × 900 px | Only if you use 360° images. |
The full text is Booking.com's article Understanding photo requirements for your property. Read it again before a big upload, because the details change.
What Booking.com asks you not to upload
- Grainy or pixelated photos.
- Blurry or tilt-shift photos.
- Over-processed photos, and photos with filters, strong contrast, over-saturation or excessive HDR.
- Collages, watermarks or illustrations.
- Skewed, tilted, stretched or distorted photos.
- Black-and-white photos, and extreme wide-angle or fisheye shots.
Two of these decide how you should edit. Over-processing means an edit should be invisible: no crushed shadows, no invented colours, no filter look. Stretching means any resize keeps the original proportions.
Superphoto is built around the same limits. It corrects white balance, brightness and window exposure, and it keeps your furniture, materials and layout. You see each result next to its original before you download it.
Check the size before you upload
Most rejected photos took a detour: sent through WhatsApp, saved from a social post, or downloaded back from another listing. Each step shrinks and compresses the file.
- Start from the original file on your phone or camera.
- Check the dimensions. On a phone, open the photo's details. On a computer, right-click and open the file properties. If the long edge is under 2048 pixels, go back to the source.
- Check Superphoto's exports too. Superphoto currently delivers enhanced photos at 1536 pixels on the long edge. That is enough for Airbnb, which asks for 1024 × 683, but it is below Booking.com's 2048 × 1080 minimum. If Booking.com is your main channel, look at the exported size before you upload, and keep the original for any photo that must meet the minimum.
A shoot that passes and sells
Meeting the rules gets the gallery accepted. It does not make anyone click. The routine below works for every platform:
- Shoot in daylight with the lamps on, in landscape, from room corners, at chest height.
- Take four photos per room and one of the bathroom, then keep the best of each. For Booking.com, four per room is the floor.
- Give the whole set the same brightness, colour and straight lines. A bright living room next to a yellow bedroom makes both look worse.
The phone photography guide has the full routine. The Airbnb requirements guide covers the other platform, and one well-made set of photos satisfies both.
Common questions
What is the minimum photo size for Booking.com?
2048 × 1080 pixels. Booking.com prefers 4000 × 3000.
How many photos does a Booking.com listing need?
At least 10 in total, at least four per room or unit, and at least one of the bathroom and toilet. Aparthotels and condo hotels need at least 24.
Can I use the same photos on Airbnb and Booking.com?
Yes. Shoot to the higher standard, which is Booking.com's, and the same set works on both.