Create a free bed and breakfast or holiday cottage website

Use your website to give a guided tour of your holiday let. Start by creating pages to present your accommodation. Create attractive pages presenting the property and its features, such as the number of rooms and beds, check-in and check-out times, facilities and whether pets are welcome.

Also present the services and activities on offer: breakfast, dinner, activities, excursions, a wellness area, a swimming pool. Highlight your commitments and quality labels, as well as your philosophy (welcome, friendliness, discretion). All this information is a real mark of quality that reassures visitors and shows that your accommodation is committed.

Add a page showing your rental prices and your online availability calendar. You can also present the area and its tourist attractions. Give as much information as possible so that travellers can find everything about your holiday let 24/7.

Win over web users with a photo gallery that showcases your accommodation. You can create an online photo album, display a slideshow on your website and post videos in your gallery.

The idea is to bring out the quality of your accommodation so that web users can picture the place (rustic or modern rooms, natural setting or city-centre location, and so on). Attractive photos of your holiday let will encourage them to contact you and even book online.

Also add photos of the extra services of your holiday let (breakfast, dinner, activities, excursions, wellness area, and so on). Highlight the comfort of your rooms and the activities your cottage offers for relaxing and having fun, to stand out from your competitors with beautiful photos, so that future guests can picture their stay with you.

As well as your full contact details, you can add a contact form to your holiday cottage website so that visitors can leave you a message directly from your website.

Display your contact details so that web users can get in touch for more information about your cottage. Add your email address and your phone number. Also include a map to share the location of your accommodation.

The contact form lets web users contact you in a few clicks. It is an essential tool for turning visitors into future guests.

Offer online booking directly on your holiday let website. If web users are won over by the presentation of your cottage or bed and breakfast, your photos and your services, they can book straight away.

Set up your online booking system exactly as you need, with opening and closing days and high and low seasons, and vary rental prices by period. You can also add paid extras (breakfast, bed linen or bike hire, end-of-stay cleaning, and so on) and accept online payment of a deposit or of the full booking amount.

Web users can check availability on an online calendar and book one night (or more) at your accommodation. On your side, you easily manage your bookings and availability schedule directly on your cottage or bed and breakfast website, and you increase your occupancy rate through direct bookings, so that guests do not leave your website without booking their stay with you.

Share your guest reviews on your bed and breakfast website to reassure future guests. Web users pay close attention to reviews and testimonials, which are a mark of quality and help them choose their holiday let.

Highlight your overall rating and your best reviews on your home page. These testimonials are invaluable to reassure travellers in their choice of where to stay. Guest reviews are a mark of trust that reassures travellers about the quality of your holiday let and your services.

You can also add a guestbook so that guests can post messages after their stay at your guest house. It is an ideal tool to spread word of mouth online and build a more direct link with web users.

Creating a blog is an ideal addition to a bed and breakfast website. In particular, you can create a blog to share places of interest around your holiday home, such as activities or places to visit in the area.

It is a good way to present local news, events and activities nearby, but also to highlight the quality of your cottage, your news and the new services you offer.

A blog on your holiday let website helps you stand out from the competition and improve your Google ranking, to attract new visitors.

Also think of visitors from abroad by offering a multilingual holiday cottage website. Translate your website into one or more languages to open it up to international travellers.

Translating your website gives travellers from abroad access to all the information about your holiday let. It is a real competitive advantage that helps you make a difference and stand out with your future guests.

You can also create an online store to diversify your guest house business and sell your products online.

Creating an e-commerce website lets you sell farm produce or products from local makers (honey, wine, natural beauty products and so on) available at your cottage, for past guests who would like to relive some of the moments they spent with you.