Holiday Property Websites

We build smart, professional and affordable websites for all types of holiday property businesses including private owners with one or more properties, holiday property agents and estate agents.

Whatever your budget, your website is designed to improve your rental income and reduce the administration of running the business.

Availability Management

Display up-to-date availability on your website and update it with a simple online screen at any time. Displaying up-to-date and accurate availability on your website is essential these days for customers booking holiday accommodation. See example

Photography

If you are able to take good photos yourself, we can use these and enhance them if necessary using Photoshop. We are also happy to take photographs for you using a dSLR camera with wide-angle lens, if logistically feasible.

Booking & Payment Process

The website incorporates a proven and efficient booking & payment process, which overcomes all the problems, delays and drudgery of doing things by fax, letters in the post, waiting for cheques in the post and banking them, numerous phone calls etc. etc. Embrace the 21st century and let technology make your life easier!

Note, this process has been designed so that either you or a 3rd-party agent can manage your bookings! This means that you can completely opt out of dealing with the day-to-day booking process. See example

Multilingual Content

You can easily increase your potential market beyond just British tourists by offering your website in different languages. Many holiday property owners are considering this as essential to maintain bookings at previous high levels.

Your website can easily be offered in different languages and be properly translated by a human instead of a computer-generated translation, which really doesn't cut the mustard and looks amateurish.

You can do the translation yourself if you or a friend are proficient in other languages or it can be done for you.

The price for a multilingual website depends on the number of languages you want and the number of pages and features your website has. If you are on a tight budget, you can just do the essential pages, which from experience really helps with non-British customers. See example

Researching Information for your Website

Owing to our experience in building and managing websites for holiday properties, we have a good understanding of what information people look for on a website when searching for holiday accommodation to book.

A lot of this information would naturally be provided by you, the property owner. Sometimes this needs to be supplemented by researching the area, which we do online by looking at various websites in the area. From these sites we will glean information about things to do, shops & dining and other tourist information for the area.

Please have a look at some of the holiday property websites we have done.

Advertise Your Website on Portals

We will setup your property advert on any of the holiday accommodation portals such as Chez Nous, Gite.com,  French Connections, Holiday Rentals, Owners Direct, Your Holiday Directory  etc. They charge anything between £0 and  £150 per annum. We charge an hourly rate to set these up, allowing 1 to 2 hours per portal. It can be highly cost effective to do this in one go with the website build so that the same set of photos and information is used in all advertising, which also ensures excellent consistency.

'Last Minute Availability' Advertising

To maximise your profit, it is important to continually manage the pricing of your accommodation to ensure you sell as many profitable weeks as possible. You can attract customers by offering last minute discounts on accommodation.

This can be done through:

• feature adverts on your website
• pay per click campaign, e.g. using Google Adword
• Limited time 'Last Minute' feature advertising on holiday accommodation portals

Starfish Websites build websites for all holiday properties including bed & breakfast, hotels, guesthouses, holiday homes, gites, villas, apartments, self-catering accommodation, ski chalets and vacation rentals.