Give your guests the fish-bill cheat sheet
For alojamento local owners, Airbnb hosts and villa managers on the Algarve: one printable page for the welcome folder, plus a ready-made paragraph for your welcome PDF. It costs nothing, sells nothing, and prevents the single most common guest complaint about eating out here.
Why guests come back from dinner grumpy
Whole fish in Portugal is priced per kilo of raw weight. It is the honest local system — but a visitor reads “robalo 58€/kg” as a €22-ish dish, orders the big one, and meets a €70 fish line at the end of the night. Add the couvert (the bread and olives that arrive unasked and are charged if touched) and you get the classic one-star-review evening: nobody cheated, two pricing cultures just talked past each other. Guests rarely blame the restaurant alone; the whole holiday — and sometimes the host's restaurant tips — takes the hit.
What Quilo does about it
- The calculator: the €/kg from the board becomes the real euros for their table, before they order.
- The bill checker: board price × printed weight, compared with what was charged — with a polite way to ask about gaps.
- The phrases: weigh-and-confirm, decline the couvert, tap water — in Portuguese, Spanish and English, big enough to show the waiter.
- Trap geography: where the tourist-facing strips are, town by town, with no restaurants named — plus long-form guides for Lagos, Praia da Rocha and Olhão.
It is a free website — no app store, no account, no ads. Once a guest opens it on Wi-Fi it keeps working at the table without signal. The QR below lands on the free Algarve dining pack, which bundles all of the above.
The one-pager
Print this page and everything around the sheet below disappears — you get a single A4 page for the welcome folder, the fridge or the hallway pinboard.
Quilo
Order fish like a local. Pay what you expected.
Fish here is priced per kilo of raw weight — the menu number is not the plate price. Quilo turns the €/kg board into your table's actual bill, checks the bill afterwards, and gives you the polite Portuguese phrases. Free, in your browser, works offline at the table.
www.quiloapp.com/pack
For your welcome PDF or guest book — copy and paste:
Restaurants here price whole fish per kilo of raw weight, so the number on the menu board is not the price of the plate — that mix-up is the number one cause of dinner-bill surprises for visitors. Quilo (www.quiloapp.com) is a free website that turns the €/kg board into your table's actual bill, sanity-checks the bill afterwards, and gives you the polite Portuguese phrases to use. There is no app to install and no account — open it once on Wi-Fi and it keeps working at the restaurant table.
Quilo is independent: no ads, no bookings, no commissions, and the pack asks your guests for nothing. Prices are always the restaurant's own — Quilo never guesses market prices, and its area notes describe geography patterns, not verdicts on named restaurants.