Websites for hostels, stays and tours

They are booking a placethey have never been to.

Show them the rooms, tell them how to get there, and answer the question they send at three in the morning from a different time zone.

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29: sites we have built
27: live, and you can open them
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A place to stay we actually built

Segara Surf Co

Not a template with a hostel name dropped on it, and not a picture of a website. It is live, and you can open it and judge it the way a traveller planning a trip would.

See it live

What a website for a stay actually needs

Six of the things you can put in it. The first three are what somebody far away needs to know; the other three come with every build.

Photo gallery
What somebody is actually booking, photographed and priced, instead of one wide shot of the building and a contact form.
Map and directions
The bus, the ferry, the last stretch nobody tells you about. Written by somebody who lives there, which no booking platform will ever do for you.
Blog or news
The reason they chose your area over the other one. Your own recommendations, which is also the page they will read again after arriving.
Brand identity kit
Logo, colours, type and the rules for using them — yours to keep and use anywhere, not only here.
Mobile-first layout
Built for the phone first, because that is where somebody planning a trip on the train home is looking at it.
Search engine basics
The groundwork that lets somebody searching for where you are, rather than for your name, actually find you.

How your site gets built

Six steps, and you can stop after the second one having cost nothing and told us nothing.

Start at step one

Choose what your site does
Open the builder and pick the features from the list. Nothing to install and no account needed to look.
Watch the price as you go
It moves as you choose. You see what it costs before you owe anything, which is the whole reason the builder is public.
Pay, or use a code
One setup fee and a monthly care plan. If somebody gave you a code, put it in instead — the code is the payment.
Answer the brief
What you do, who you do it for, what makes the place itself worth it. Rough answers are fine, and anything you skip we cover in the kickoff call.
We build it
From your brief and your choices. Your colours and your words, not a template with your name dropped on it.
It goes live, and it keeps working
The monthly covers hosting, updates and fixes, and C.A.R.E. answering the enquiries that arrive while you are busy.

It answers in the middle of your night

Your guests are on the other side of the world, which means the message that decides a booking arrives at three in the morning. Answering it eight hours later is answering somebody who already booked elsewhere.

C.A.R.E. is built in rather than bolted on, and it sits inside the monthly rather than being sold to you as an extra later.

Everything in one place

The site itself, built to your brief
Every feature you picked in the builder
A brand identity kit that is yours to keep
Hosting, kept live
Updates and fixes
C.A.R.E. answering your enquiries

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Get found when people search
Titles, descriptions and structure so search engines can read the site — and so somebody looking for what you do, where you are, lands on you rather than a directory.
Send people from social to something you own
Your profiles linked from the site and the site linked from your profiles. A follower is rented; somebody who has your address is not.
Say something new without paying anyone
A blog or news page you can post to yourself. Every post is another page that can be found, and it costs nothing to add.
Keep the people who already liked you
A newsletter signup, so the person who visited once has a way back that does not depend on them remembering your name.

A foundation you do not have to think about

The parts nobody asks for until they are missing.

It loads fast, and we measure it
Load speed and layout shift are measured against fixed budgets — two and a half seconds to the biggest thing on screen, and almost no jumping about as the page settles — rather than judged by eye. A slow site is a site people leave before it finishes arriving.
It works for people who cannot use a mouse
Every public page is checked against the WCAG rules automatically before it ships, at desktop and phone size, and nothing is failing. Most small-business sites have never been checked once.
It keeps being looked after
Hosting, updates and fixes are the monthly. A site that was built once and never touched again is how a business ends up with a phone number on the internet that nobody answers.

Questions about a website for a stay

I get all my guests through the booking platforms. Why do I need a site?

Because they take a commission on every one of them, and because a guest who already stayed with you has nowhere to book direct. Your own site is the only place where a returning guest costs you nothing.

Does it take reservations and payments?

Not out of the box, and we would rather say so than imply it. What it does is capture the enquiry with the dates and the party size already in it, so the booking you confirm by message is not four exchanges of “how many of you?”

My guests message at three in the morning my time.

They do — different time zone, and the ones who are still deciding will not wait until you wake up. C.A.R.E. is our customer-response system and it is part of the build rather than an add-on, so the question gets answered when it is asked.

Can I write it in more than one language?

Tell us in the brief who you are writing for. It is a real decision with a real cost rather than a switch, and it is one worth making deliberately before the build rather than bolting on afterwards.

Is this a template with my hostel name dropped in?

No. It is built from your brief — your colours, your words, your rooms. Open the sites we have built and check: they are live, several of them are stays, and none of them is the same site twice.

What does the monthly fee actually cover?

Hosting, updates and fixes, and C.A.R.E. answering the enquiries that arrive while you are working. The one-off fee builds the site; the monthly keeps it live and looked after.

Can I cancel the monthly?

Yes — contact us any time to change or cancel it. Worth knowing before you do: the monthly IS the hosting, so cancelling it takes the site off the web. It does not take the site off you. The design, the words and the brand kit are yours, and you can host them elsewhere.

Do I own it, or am I renting it?

It is a real site on real hosting and it stays yours. It is not a page trapped inside a builder you have to keep paying to log into.

Do I have to pay before I see anything?

No. Open the builder and the price moves as you choose. You see your exact figure before you owe anything and before you have told us who you are.

How much does it cost?

One setup fee and one monthly care plan, and both are on the pricing page with what the same thing costs assembled from separate suppliers.

Someone gave me a code. What does it do?

It takes money off the build. Enter it here and you will see your exact figure before you commit to anything.

Can I change things after it is live?

Yes — updates and fixes are what the monthly is for. A site nobody can change is a site that goes out of date, and a price list you have to ring someone to edit is one that stays wrong.

Will it work on a phone?

It is built for the phone first. That is not a feature we charge for; it is where your customers are, so it is where the design starts.

Real sites, real businesses

Stays and tours are the largest group of sites this business has built. Every one below is live, and you can open it the way a traveller planning a trip would.