Hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs, beach clubs, chauffeurs, boats and villas. Who we send, and how we work with the places we send them to.
A Nōch group is typically six to twelve friends away for a bachelor or bachelorette weekend. They plan it with the studio weeks ahead, not the night before.
They arrive with the weekend on every phone, and your place is in it by name — the day, the hour, the address a driver needs, the dress for the night. They are not looking for somewhere to go. They are coming to you.
Most groups book with you directly. With The Desk, our separate service by application, the studio makes the bookings for them.
Our picks are never for sale.
A place is in our guides on quality alone — the room, the table, the service, the night — and stays in them for the same reason. It cannot pay to be included, to be ranked or to be shown first. There is no fee to be listed, and no way to pay for one.
Some places give Nōch groups a perk, such as a welcome on arrival or the good table. The perk is marked on that place’s card as a Nōch perk, and the venue offers it on its own terms. On bookings the Desk makes for a group, and only on those, a place may pay the studio a commission. The group’s booking confirmation says which bookings carry one, and it is never added to the group’s bill. Perks and commissions never decide what we recommend.
A partnership is something for our groups when they arrive — a welcome on arrival, the good table, an upgrade when one is free. You decide what it is.
Your card then shows it as a Nōch perk, in the city guide, in the Nōch app and on their trip website.
On bookings the studio makes through The Desk, and only on those, a commission may be agreed with you beforehand, paid by you and never by the group. The Desk does not book villas or transfers, so the studio takes no commission or fee from villa or transfer providers.
Writing to us doesn’t put a place in the guides. They’re chosen separately, on quality. The studio reads every enquiry.