Website design for holiday cottages and guest houses: build your reputation
A site in your name, with your own domain name and your own terms: your visibility and your brand image are built at home, without depending on a platform. With Booky, the agency’s booking engine, your guests book directly with you.
Official Google Hotels partnerFree booking links, included in all our packages- 0%commission on bookings made with Booky
- 4timeto build your site, from questionnaire to going live
- GoogleHotelsfree booking links, included
On a platform, people find the platform. On your site, they find your property.
A site dedicated to your holiday cottage or guest rooms lets you build a long-term strategy, with visibility and search ranking that depend on no external platform. Your domain name, your terms, original texts optimised for search: your reputation is built at home. With Booky, bookings made on your site cost no commission, and Google Hotels’ free booking links lead straight to your booking page.
- 01Be found on Google
- 02Win people over with images
- 03Take direct bookings
- 04Build customer loyalty
For owners who want to get known
This offer is for owners of holiday cottages, guest houses and holiday rentals who want a site of their own, with their own booking system, to build their reputation without depending on platforms.
- Holiday homes
- Bed and breakfasts and guest houses
- Holiday rentals, villas and holiday homes
- Apartments and tourist residences
- Inns and small accommodation businesses
- Owners who want to reduce their dependence on platforms
Is your business larger, or do you already use an engine you want to keep? We can integrate an external engine of your choice into your site. If you only need a presentation with a booking link, the showcase website offer is enough; to sell products online too, there is the e-commerce website. The details of the engine and the booking journey are on the booking website.
Everything you need to get known
- 01Turnkey site, with training on the administration interface on delivery
- 02Custom design, adapted logo and brand guidelines (your existing elements can be reused)
- 03Responsive website: computer, tablet and smartphone
- 04Large photos or videos, in a clean design
- 05Original texts, with SEO specific to holiday cottages and guest houses
- 06Integrated booking engine: Booky, connected to Google Hotels, or an external engine of your choice
- 07Quick booking bar and an always-visible booking link
- 08Specific items to integrate: review portals, customer reviews, weather, press, pop-ups, live chat
- 09Multilingual site, with an English translation by a native speaker
- 10SSL certificate (HTTPS) and optimised loading time
- 11Hosting and domain name
- 12Support and regular security and performance updates
A site that works for your reputation
Your site is where your property gets known, wins people over and receives its bookings, with no intermediary. Here is what it does for you, from the Google search to the guest who comes back.
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Search visibility that belongs to you
Original texts, optimised for organic search, and SEO specific to holiday cottages and guest houses: your visibility depends on no platform. Organic search optimisation.
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A custom brand image
Custom design, adapted logo and brand guidelines, large photos or videos in a clean design: a site that looks like you and inspires confidence in your future guests.
- 03
Google Ads without losing your guests
You can run Google Ads campaigns to your own site, without risking seeing your guests go to competitors. Paid search.
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Booking and payment, with no commission
Your guests search their dates, book and pay on your site. Bookings made with Booky cost no commission. Discover the Booky engine.
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Synchronised calendars
Your calendars synchronise both ways with Booking, Airbnb, Homelidays and other platforms: no overbooking, and bookings coming from elsewhere appear in your dashboard.
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Extra services, without competition
Cleaning, shuttle, bedding, pets or any other service, charged or free, offered during booking; coupons and discounts sent in a few clicks.
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Guests who come back
Voluntary data collection (newsletter sign-up, contact list) helps you build customer loyalty more easily.
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You stay in control
You change your texts and photos by describing the change in one sentence: the AI takes care of it (how it works). On delivery, training also teaches you to set your rates, your seasons and your booking rules. For anything you would rather not do, we step in as part of support.
Free booking links on Google
Hotel Web Design is listed in the official directory of Google Hotels connectivity partners (new tab). Information about your accommodation, availability and rates is sent to Google, which can show free booking links in Google Search, on Google Maps and on Google Hotels, straight to the booking page of your site. Google alone decides what is displayed. Your guests book with you, with no commission. It is included in all our packages.
- 1Your websiteYour accommodation, availability and rates
- 2GoogleGoogle SearchGoogle MapsGoogle HotelsFree booking links
- 3Your booking pageYour guests book with you, with no commission
How we work
About twentyworking days: the usual lead time for our standard packages, from signing to going live.
Up to about fiftyworking days, on average, for more elaborate projects.
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A questionnaire
At the start of our collaboration, we send you a questionnaire: your graphic and ergonomic preferences, your target keywords, the specifics of your offer. Your brief is welcome if you have one.
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A mock-up on a private link
You discover a first draft on a private link and leave your comments there. We adapt the mock-up to your instructions, then build the inner pages and modules, keeping you informed at every step.
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A full proofread
Every link and button is tested, the texts are checked and test bookings and payments are made. The site then goes off for translation.
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Going live and follow-up
After your final approval, we put the site online on the domain name of your choice and train you on the administration interface. You then keep technical support and regular security and performance updates.
We can also support you with web marketing: Google Ads, SEO, social media.
Sites that make their property known
Guest house, villa, apartments, hotel : five websites created by the agency.
A guest house and its restaurant in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon: two sites for one place.
A holiday villa rented as a whole on the Opal Coast, between Montreuil-sur-Mer and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage.
A charming hotel of ten single-storey rooms in Labeaume, a village of character in southern Ardèche.
Eight luxury apartments at Passage Choiseul, in the heart of Paris, with a tailor-made concierge service.
A 3-star hotel with 9 rooms and a restaurant, ski-in ski-out in the Portes du Soleil area.
Your website can be edited with a simple prompt
We use artificial intelligence extensively, both to design your pages and to keep them evolving. Your website is delivered on a base that can be managed with a simple prompt: you write what you want to change, in one sentence and in everyday language, and the AI takes care of it.
Edit with a prompt
A text, a photo, an opening time: one sentence is enough.
An in-house structure
We deliver our websites on an in-house structure, chosen for optimisation, loading speed and editing by AI.
Free to leave
The day you wish to leave us, we can deliver the same website to you on WordPress, if you wish.
Why build a website for my holiday cottage rather than stay on the platforms?
Platforms such as Homelidays, Abritel or Airbnb can work well at first, but they become unsuitable as soon as the rental project is looked at over the longer term. A dedicated site, with your own domain name and your own terms, lets you avoid commissions, protect yourself from outside uncertainties and gain credibility with your guests. Hotel website or platform.
How do I create a holiday rental website for my holiday cottage?
We build it with you. A questionnaire tells us your preferences and your keywords (your brief is welcome), a mock-up on a private link lets you leave comments, a full proofread checks every link and every test payment, then the site is put online on the domain name of your choice.
Do bookings made with Booky cost a commission?
No. Bookings made with Booky cost no commission: your guests book directly with you, with no intermediary.
I already use a booking engine. Can I keep it?
Yes. Our offer includes, as you choose, the Booky booking engine connected to Google Hotels or the integration of an external engine directly into your site (Reservit, D-Edge or Availpro, for example).
How do you avoid double bookings with Airbnb or Booking?
The calendars of your accommodation synchronise both ways with platforms such as Booking, Airbnb or Homelidays. Bookings made elsewhere also appear in your dashboard.
How can my site make my holiday cottage known on Google?
Your texts are original and optimised for organic search, with SEO specific to holiday cottages and guest houses. Hotel Web Design is listed in the official directory of Google Hotels connectivity partners: Google can therefore show free booking links to your booking page, and you can run Google Ads campaigns to your site. Google alone decides what is displayed. Read more about the Google Hotels partnership.
What lead times should I expect?
From signing to going live, our standard packages are generally delivered in about twenty working days. More elaborate projects take up to about fifty working days on average.
Can I edit my website myself?
Yes, with a simple prompt. Your website is delivered on a base that AI can manage: you write what you want to change (a text, a photo, an opening time), in one sentence and in everyday language, and the AI takes care of it.
What is my website built on?
On an in-house structure, chosen for optimisation, loading speed and editing by AI. The day you wish to leave us, we can deliver the same website to you on WordPress.
Ready to build your reputation?
Describe your holiday cottage or guest rooms in a few lines: we will call you back to talk about it.
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