Stay.
Step into the rooms, gardens and gathering places. Short videos help you picture a day there.
Get a feeling for a place.
Before you get there.
Discover hotels with fewer than 100 rooms through short videos of the stays, people, places and experiences that make them worth the trip. Save your favorites, share your shortlist, and book directly with the hotel.
Explore the collectionSmall enough
to know the place.
A chef who knows the fishermen by name. A host with a favorite swimming spot. A breakfast that could only belong to this place. In a small hotel, the people you meet can change the trip you have.
Those connections are hard to find in a list of rooms and amenities. Lobbico gives you a closer look, so you can choose a hotel for the experience around it as well as the room itself.
There’s more to a hotel
than the room.
People.
Meet the hosts, chefs and local collaborators. Find out who’s behind the welcome and what they care about.
Places.
Explore the beach, bakery or walking route the team recommends. Their stamps give you a starting point beyond the hotel.
Experiences.
A lesson in the kitchen. An afternoon on the water. Discover the things you could do while you’re there.
From a first look
to your next trip.
Keep the possibilities.
Save hotels as you explore, then share one shortlist with the people you’re traveling with.
Go straight to the hotel.
Check availability, prices and booking on the hotel’s own website. Lobbico takes no booking commission.
Know what you’re seeing.
Hotel teams are verified before they manage a page, and new videos are reviewed. Paid Spotlight placements are marked and never change the Most saved or Hotelier favorites rankings.
An invitation
to look inside.
Lobbico takes its cue from lobia, a Medieval Latin word for a covered walk, part of the word family behind lobby and loggia.
We picture the arcade in front of a small hotel: somewhere to pause in the shade, see who’s arriving, and meet the person who runs it. Lobbico is our way of bringing that first encounter online.
Sam.Founder of Lobbico
Why I’m building Lobbico.
I travel a lot, and I run a tech company. I want the tools we use to find hotels to tell us more about the people and places behind them.
A room photo can tell me where I’ll sleep. I also want to know who I might meet, what they love about the area, and what I could experience there.
That’s the idea behind Lobbico: help you get to know a small hotel well enough to want to go.
Sam Founder of Lobbico