Do I still need Airbnb or Booking.com?

Many owners keep a listing for discovery and move repeat guests to direct booking. The site is built to be the cheaper front door, not to replace every channel on day one.

How do payments work?

Guests pay a deposit by card at booking through Stripe, and the balance when it falls due. Money lands in your own Stripe account, not ours.

Can guests see what is free without emailing?

Yes. The calendar shows live availability and the exact price for the dates chosen, so the enquiry step disappears for most guests.

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Websites for holiday lets, cottages and guest houses

Take the booking yourself. Keep the commission.

Listing sites take a cut of every stay and own the guest relationship. A booking site of your own shows live availability, quotes the exact price and takes the deposit, and the guest is yours to welcome back next year.

What matters in your trade

Live availability calendar with your blocked dates
Seasonal rates, minimum stays and instant quotes
Deposit and balance payments by card
Every photo, house rule and local tip editable by you
Built for more than one unit, so a second cottage is a form, not a rebuild

Built for businesses like yours

The Bothy Devon Booking platform · Holiday let →

The service

Design & build

A website designed and built by one person who owns every detail, from the first wireframe to the last deploy.

What every site gets

Traffic dashboard. Visitors and pages, without Google Analytics or a cookie banner.
Enquiries inbox. Every form message stored and emailed, spam throttled.
Reviews on the site. Google or Trustpilot reviews synced nightly and marked up for search.
Search health. Titles, descriptions, sitemap and structured data audited on every deploy.
Checked every five minutes. Uptime and certificate monitoring with an alert to Luke, not to you.
Nightly backups. Database dumped before every deploy and every night, kept for 14 days.
Your own admin panel. Edit words, images, prices and pages yourself.
Care plan. Updates, fixes and small changes each month, from GBP 49.

Questions holiday lets ask

Do I still need Airbnb or Booking.com?: Many owners keep a listing for discovery and move repeat guests to direct booking. The site is built to be the cheaper front door, not to replace every channel on day one.
How do payments work?: Guests pay a deposit by card at booking through Stripe, and the balance when it falls due. Money lands in your own Stripe account, not ours.
Can guests see what is free without emailing?: Yes. The calendar shows live availability and the exact price for the dates chosen, so the enquiry step disappears for most guests.

Tell us about your business.

A reply from Luke within a working day, with a fixed quote once we have talked.

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