SES Hospedajes GuideIndependent, plain-English guidance on SES.Hospedajes and Spanish holiday-rental guest registration.https://seshospedajes.com/2026-08-16T00:00:00ZSES Hospedajes Guide (Villa Check In SL)Information only — not legal advice. Not a government website.Do I need to register a child staying one night?https://seshospedajes.com/answers/need-register-child-staying-one-night/2026-08-16T00:00:00Z2026-08-16T00:00:00ZYes, every person who stays in your tourist accommodation must be registered with SES.Hospedajes, regardless of their age, relationship to other guests, or length of stay. This includes children, even if they are local residents and only staying for a single night.Do I register a local visitor who stays one night?https://seshospedajes.com/answers/register-local-visitor-stays-one-night/2026-08-16T00:00:00Z2026-08-16T00:00:00ZYes, anyone who stays overnight in your tourist accommodation must be registered with SES.Hospedajes, regardless of their residency, relationship to the guests, or the duration of their stay. This includes local visitors, even if they only stay for a single night.Will the EU force Spain to withdraw Real Decreto 933/2021?https://seshospedajes.com/answers/will-eu-force-spain-withdraw-real-decreto-933-2021/2026-08-13T00:00:00Z2026-08-13T00:00:00ZNo, the European Commission will not force Spain to withdraw Real Decreto 933/2021 in 2027, and you should absolutely not stop filing until then. Your obligations to register guests remain fully in force.Can I have more guests than my tourist licence allows?https://seshospedajes.com/answers/more-guests-than-tourist-licence-allows/2026-08-12T00:00:00Z2026-08-12T00:00:00ZNo, you cannot have more guests than your tourist licence permits. Your tourist licence specifies the maximum occupancy for your property, and exceeding this limit is a breach of your licence conditions. Guest registration through SES.Hospedajes is a separate obligation, but it will reveal any over-occupancy.Do I need to register friends & family who stay free of charge?https://seshospedajes.com/answers/need-register-friends-family-stay-free-charge/2026-08-12T00:00:00Z2026-08-12T00:00:00ZYes. The duty attaches to the accommodation activity, not to each individual stay, so if your property is operated as tourist accommodation everyone who sleeps there must be registered — including friends and family who pay you nothing.My property is in Catalonia. Do I have to file with the Mossos d Esquahttps://seshospedajes.com/answers/property-catalonia-file-with-mossos-d-esqua/2026-08-12T00:00:00Z2026-08-12T00:00:00ZFor properties located in Catalonia, you are required to report your guest details to the Mossos d'Esquadra, which is the regional police force. Catalonia, along with the Basque Country, operates its own independent system for guest registration, rather than using the national SES.Hospedajes platform.Should I sue my property manager over a deposit dispute in Malaga?https://seshospedajes.com/answers/should-sue-property-manager-over-deposit-dispute-malaga/2026-08-12T00:00:00Z2026-08-12T00:00:00ZA deposit dispute with your property manager is a civil contract matter, not a guest-registration one, so it sits outside what this site can tell you. A Spanish lawyer who works in property or civil disputes is the right place to take it.Cancelling a booking after filing guest detailshttps://seshospedajes.com/answers/cancelling-booking-after-filing-guest-details/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z2026-08-11T00:00:00ZYes, you must report a cancelled booking to SES.Hospedajes, even if you have already submitted the guest details. You have a strict 24-hour deadline from the moment the booking is cancelled to make this report. Failing to do so can lead to fines, as this is a separate reporting obligation.Guest cannot register her datahttps://seshospedajes.com/answers/guest-cannot-register-her-data/2026-08-11T00:00:00Z2026-08-11T00:00:00ZYou are responsible for ensuring all guests are registered. If a guest cannot register their own data, you must collect it from them and submit it yourself. You have a strict 24-hour deadline from their arrival to do so.AutoFirma — why signing fails, and what each error meanshttps://seshospedajes.com/digital-certificates/autofirma-problems/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZAutoFirma is the program Spain uses to sign things with your digital certificate. It only exists for Windows, Mac and Linux — there is no iPad, iPhone or Android version, so an owner working only from a phone cannot register at all. Most other failures come down to three things: an expired certificate, a certificate your browser cannot see, or a fault at the government's end.Getting a digital certificate when you don't live in Spainhttps://seshospedajes.com/digital-certificates/non-resident-owners/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZSES.Hospedajes will not let you do anything until you can prove who you are to the Spanish state. That normally means a digital certificate. You need a NIE number first, and the usual route involves proving your identity in person at a Spanish consulate. Allow a month. There are three other ways if that will not work.What a process that actually works looks likehttps://seshospedajes.com/guest-registration/a-process-that-works/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZRegistration can be automated — the Ministry supports electronic submission, and most booking systems can feed it. But automation moves the typing, not the responsibility, and almost every failure happens in the four places software does not reach: the handover, the chase, the rejection nobody read, and the certificate that quietly expired.Children, babies and teenagershttps://seshospedajes.com/guest-registration/children/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZEvery child staying must be registered, whatever their age. Guests of 14 and over sign for themselves; for younger children an accompanying adult provides the details. The relationship between guests must be given whenever anyone in the party is under 18 — a different age from the signing rule, which is why this causes so much confusion.When a guest refuses to registerhttps://seshospedajes.com/guest-registration/guest-refuses/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZYou are the one the law holds responsible, so a guest refusing to provide their details is your problem rather than theirs. Most refusals come from believing the request is a scam, and are settled by explaining who is really asking. Where someone genuinely will not comply, you can decline to let them stay.The three ways to register your guestshttps://seshospedajes.com/guest-registration/how-to-register/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZYou can do it yourself on the government website, use software that submits for you, or hand the whole job to a managed service. All three satisfy the law equally. The right one depends on how many bookings you take, whether you have a Windows or Mac computer, and how much of your own time you want this to occupy.What you must ask guests for — and what you needn'thttps://seshospedajes.com/guest-registration/what-information-is-required/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZThe law lists the details you have to collect: names, sex, date of birth, nationality, document type and number, home address, phone, email, and the relationship between guests if any of them is under 18. It does not ask for a photocopy of anyone's passport, and it does not ask for a photograph.Which guests must be registeredhttps://seshospedajes.com/guest-registration/who-must-be-registered/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZEveryone who stays must be registered, at every age. Guests of 14 and over sign for themselves. For children under 14, an adult provides their details. Friends and family are not automatically exempt — what matters is not who they are, but whether anything is given in return for the stay.Who is responsible — the owner or the property manager?https://seshospedajes.com/property-managers/who-is-responsible/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZBoth can be. The law places the duty on the "obligated party", which it defines as anyone who carries out the accommodation activity or acts as an intermediary in it — so a managing agent is usually an obligated party in their own right, not merely acting on someone else's behalf. Liability then falls on whoever actually failed to do the thing.When something changes after you've filedhttps://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/correcting-a-submission/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZBookings change after they are reported. An extra person turns up, a name was spelled wrong, half the party arrives on a different day, or the whole thing is cancelled. Each of these has an answer, and a cancellation carries its own 24-hour deadline that many owners do not know exists.The two 24-hour deadlineshttps://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/deadlines/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZThere are two deadlines, not one. You must report a booking within 24 hours of it being made or cancelled. You must then report the guests within 24 hours of them arriving. Most guidance only mentions the second, which is why many owners are quietly missing the first.The EU has challenged Spain's guest-data ruleshttps://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/eu-challenge/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZOn 4 June 2026 the European Commission opened an infringement procedure against Spain over its traveller-data regime — case INFR(2026)4005. It objects to how much data is collected, how freely the police can reach it, and the three-year retention period. It has not cancelled anything, and nothing about your obligations has changed.The NRA is gone. Guest registration is not.https://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/nra-cancelled/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZSpain's Supreme Court struck down the national rental registry (the NRA) in May 2026. A great many owners have taken that to mean guest registration has been scrapped as well. It has not. SES.Hospedajes is a different system, run by a different ministry, under a different law — and it is untouched. Owners acting on the assumption are exposed to fines.The fines — what they actually arehttps://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/penalties/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZFiling late is a minor offence: €100 to €600. Not filing at all, or keeping no register when you should, is serious: €601 to €30,000. Those are the only two bands that apply. The six-figure penalties you will see quoted belong to different offences entirely, and the decree itself sets no fines at all.When a submission is rejectedhttps://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/rejected-submissions/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZMost rejections are a mismatch between what you typed and what the system expects for that particular guest, not a fault in the platform. Work through the fields in order rather than changing things at random — and never invent a document number to make an error go away.Royal Decree 933/2021, in plain Englishhttps://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/royal-decree-933-2021/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZThis is the Spanish law behind guest registration. It is short — eight articles and two lists of data. Below is what each part says, put into everyday English. This is our own plain-English summary, not an official translation, and the Spanish original is linked throughout so you can check anything for yourself.You've registered the property. Now where do the guests go?https://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/submitting-guest-data/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZRegistering your property and sending guest details are two different jobs on SES.Hospedajes, and finishing the first does not lead you to the second. Guest details go in as a parte de viajeros — typed in by hand, uploaded in a batch, or sent automatically using the login details you were emailed when you registered.What is SES.Hospedajes?https://seshospedajes.com/ses-hospedajes/what-is-ses-hospedajes/2026-08-10T00:00:00Z2026-08-10T00:00:00ZSES.Hospedajes is the Spanish government website where you report who is staying in your property. If you let a property to guests in most of Spain, you report the booking within 24 hours of it being made, and the guests within 24 hours of them arriving. Catalonia and the Basque Country run their own systems instead.