Websites for holiday lets and caravan parks
Websites for holiday lets and caravan parks
Direct bookings for holiday lets, caravan parks and B&Bs on the Lincolnshire coast, without the platforms taking their cut.
The problem
The platform takes its slice and keeps your guest
List a holiday let or a run of pitches on the booking platforms and two things quietly become true: a slice of every booking leaves the coast before you see it, and the guest belongs to the platform rather than to you. Their email address, their repeat visit, the chance to invite them back for the October half term, all of it lives in someone else's database. The platforms are a fine way to be found. They are an expensive way to be re-booked.
A direct-booking site changes that arithmetic. Returning guests, the friends they recommend and anyone who searches for your place by name come straight to you: your availability, your prices, your booking route, with no commission on the stay. It only takes a handful of bookings moving across before the site is paying for itself. And because guests choose with their eyes, it is built photo-first: the sea view, the light in the cabin, the walk over the dunes, doing the selling before a word is read.
From £79 a month
No upfront cost. The build, fast UK hosting, security and ongoing care in one simple monthly plan, with a fixed price agreed before anything starts.
Build your packageWhat good looks like
What a direct-booking site has to get right
A booking route you own
Availability, enquiry and booking handled on your own site, so the commission stays in the business and the guest's details stay with you.
Photo-first design
Big, fast photography of the van, the view and the beach, laid out to sell the stay, with the practical details always one tap away.
Seasonal prices you edit yourself
Peak weeks, shoulder-season deals and late availability updated in seconds by you, because coastal pricing never sits still.
Reviews and the location selling for you
Guest reviews shown properly, and the coast and the Wolds sold alongside the accommodation, because the setting is half the booking.
See it in practice
A real demonstration build
The Copper Kettle
A hospitality demonstration build for a fictional cafe and bistro rather than accommodation, but the photo-led layout, fast pages and booking enquiry are the same pattern a holiday let, park or B&B needs to sell a stay.
A fictional business created to show build quality. Not a live client site.
The difference
Secure by default, not as an afterthought
Holiday accommodation runs on deposits, balances and booking confirmations sent by email, which is exactly the traffic criminals like to counterfeit. A spoofed confirmation asking a guest to pay a deposit into the wrong account is a miserable thing to untangle in your busiest week. Every build ships with email authentication (SPF, DKIM and DMARC) as standard, so your booking emails are far harder to fake, alongside encryption and hardened settings protecting the guest details you hold.
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Good to know
- Can guests really book direct without commission?
- Yes. Bookings taken through your own site carry no platform commission. That can be a full booking system with payment, or an availability-and-enquiry route where you confirm each stay personally, whichever suits how you run the place. Card processing has its own small fee, but nobody takes a percentage of the stay.
- How fast can it be ready for the season?
- Most sites go from brief to live within a week of agreeing the plan, so even a spring start is comfortably ready for the first May bank holiday. Mid-season is not too late either: late summer, September weekends and the October half term are all still worth capturing.
- Can I keep using the platforms as well?
- Absolutely, and most owners do. The platforms stay as a shop window for first-time guests while your own site grows the direct side: returning guests, recommendations and name searches. Every stay that moves across is a stay with no commission on it, so the balance shifts your way over time.
- Do I own my website?
- Yes, completely. The site, the domain and the content are yours. There is no lock-in and no ransom if you ever leave. That is not true of every builder, so it is worth asking whoever you speak to.
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Where this work concentrates
The whole county
Ready when you are
Tell me about your business and I will send back a friendly, no-pressure quote, usually within one working day.