Direct booking websites for holiday let owners
We build and run a beautiful direct booking site for your holiday let, so more guests book with you instead of paying a platform. And as an optional extra, we keep you informed as the rules for holiday lets change.
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Listing sites are brilliant for being found, but every booking can cost you a commission, and the guest relationship belongs to the platform. A direct booking site puts you back in charge of pricing, policies and repeat business, alongside the platforms you already use.
Direct bookings avoid platform commission. Card payments still carry a small processing fee, but it is a fraction of typical listing-site fees.
Guests who book direct are yours to welcome back, with your own emails, offers and returning-guest experience.
Your calendar syncs with Airbnb and Booking.com, so a booking on one place blocks the dates everywhere else.
The core service
Not a template you have to figure out. We design it around your property, set it all up, and look after it.
Optional extra
Running a holiday let now means keeping up with consumer law, safety duties, registration schemes and tax changes. Compliance Watch is an add-on where we track changes that affect holiday lets, send you plain-English updates, and where a change touches your website, we make the update for you.
What changed, who it affects and what owners commonly need to think about, with links to the official source.
When a rule affects your site, such as publishing a reviews policy or how prices are displayed, we can implement it for you.
Things like guest-safety changeover checklists, kept as a dated record you can show if you are ever asked.
Tell us about your property, your current listings and how you want to run bookings.
We build a site around your photos and personality. See our examples for the range of styles.
We link your calendars, payments and emails, and test the whole booking journey.
Your site goes live on your own domain, and we keep it running, updated and supported.
Built by owners
Stars & Stiles is the company behind Cringley Cottage, our own dog-friendly holiday let in Askrigg in the Yorkshire Dales. Its website takes direct bookings, syncs with Airbnb and Booking.com and runs day to day for us, so everything we offer has been used by real guests.
When the rules changed on consumer reviews, we made the update to our own site first. Compliance Watch is that same routine, offered to other owners.
Visit Cringley CottageTell us a little about your holiday let and we will come back with how we could help and what it would cost.
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