Web Design & SEO

Websites for Places to Stay

Built to Make the Most of Your Direct Bookings

Websites for hotels, inns, B&Bs, guest houses and holiday lets, built so more of your guests book with you rather than through a booking site.

We are based in Devon and work with places to stay across the UK. Booking sites are useful and most places need them, but they also take a cut of every booking, including the guests who would have found you anyway.

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Why your own website matters

A lot of guests find a place on a booking site, then look it up by name to see its own website before they decide. What they find there settles who gets the booking, and the fee that comes with it.

If your website loads quickly, looks better than the listing, and lets them book then and there, the booking is yours and you keep the fee. If it is slow, dated, or makes them fill in a form and wait, they go back to the booking site and book there instead. That is the easiest booking you will ever get, because the guest had already chosen you. Most places lose it at the last step.

What We Do

Website design & build

A website that shows your rooms clearly and loads fast on a phone, because a guest comparing you to your own listing will not wait around.

Booking setup

Your booking system connected so dates and prices match everywhere, and booking direct is as quick and easy as booking through a site.

Local SEO

Being found by people searching for somewhere to stay in your area, through local search terms and your Google Business Profile.

Technical SEO

The behind the scenes work, site speed and structure, that decides whether Google can find and rank you.

Where direct bookings come from

Three places, in this order. Guests who found you on a booking site and then searched your name, the ones you can win back most easily. Guests searching for somewhere to stay in your area rather than a place by name, which is what local search work is for. And guests who have stayed before, who will book direct every time if you make it easy.

The first needs a better website. The second needs to be found in search. The third needs both. All three are within reach without giving up the booking sites.

How we work

01

Talk & plan

A conversation about the place, how full you tend to be, where your bookings come from now, and what the booking site fees are costing you, then a clear scope and a fixed quote.

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Audit & strategy

We look at how you show up in search and how your website compares to your own listing, and start with the gaps worth closing first.

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Design, build & optimise

Clean, fast build with the SEO groundwork included, tested across devices before it goes live.

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Launch & support

We go live, get you showing up in search, and leave you able to update rooms, prices and photos yourself.

Who we work with

Hotels, inns and pubs with rooms, B&Bs and guest houses, and self catering cottages and holiday lets across the UK. Some come for a first website, some for the search work behind one they already have, most for both.

Frequently asked questions

Will it work with our channel manager?

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Yes. We can integrate booking systems and channel managers so availability stays accurate wherever a guest looks.

Do you work outside Devon?

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Yes. We are Devon based and work with properties across the UK.

What does it cost?

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Every project is scoped and priced on its own. The first conversation and the audit are free.

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