Create vacation rental website

How easy it is to create a vacation rentals website

With our vacation rental website builder the construction of an appealing vacation rental website is very simple. Discover now our high-quality design templates and countless features with which you can design your site both aesthetically and functionally perfect. No technical knowledge of web design is required.

• Choose a template for your website
• Publish the most important data about your vacation rentals
• Upload the most beautiful pictures into a picture gallery
• Create an occupancy plan for your guests

Not necessarily, because you can also build your holiday home website yourself, with technically and design optically convincing results. An attractive appearance that attracts potential guests, motivates them to book - and ensures that they return. A website builder gives you - also as a private landlord - numerous flexible tools at hand. Customizable functions that meet your specific plans because they are designed for the rental of holiday homes.

With tools that give your vacation rental website a face with photos, display addresses on maps and continuously provide current occupancy calendars. Bookings and payments are made online, from instant bank transfer to credit card. In addition, you can tap into other channels such as booking portals as desired. Don't worry, you don't have to implement everything immediately!

A few first core elements are sufficient to start with your vacation rental website builder via drag & drop. You can customize and fine-tune your website later - little by little.

Website Builder: With hosting service and own domain

Your vacation rental website makes you independent of booking portals - as a web presence with a worldwide available, catchy and short domain with the keyword vacation rental(s) and location in the name. Establish direct contact with your guests and earn their trust. Already have a domain? Well, if your website builder allows you to continue to use this catchy name - after all, it is part of your personality. So you simply move your old domain and connect it to the website builder. An unlimited hosting service, which does not charge according to the number of visitors and visits, is preferable.

Relaxed booking via smartphone - mobile, responsive

Of course your offer runs on all mobile devices so that your guests can access it without barriers. Instead of annoyingly distorted, the display adapts smoothly to the format. As a visitor you can see all important booking information at a glance. Do low prices play a role? Sure, but the anticipation of the most beautiful weeks of the year is even greater. Planning and booking a holiday should above all be a pleasure - so treat your guests to the fun. With responsive templates that adapt flexibly to display or screen size, rewarded by the Google algorithm as improved search engine ranking. Does your website look good on your smartphone? This is exactly what can be tested with special tools.

The apartment is available? Then the guest can make an request directly - or book online immediately, without risk of overbooking. In order to pave the way to your domicile for guests, each website builder includes a booking system with integrated booking calendar. This accepts booking requests, automatically accepts direct bookings via the "Book Now" button and enables many payment methods, from instant bank transfer to credit card. Always to react promptly is your style? First, ask potential guests to make a booking request and, if necessary, subject them to a pre-check.

On the other hand, special tools remind guests of their reservations - fully automatically - because every communication with guests is a time factor. Automated templates send booking confirmations, inform about arrival times or keep service providers and cleaning staff automatically informed about the arrival and departure of your holiday guests. Information that you can also send depending on the event - such as directions shortly before the start of the trip or thank you e-mails ten days after departure.

Consumers in 2018 are demanding - and impatient: When you visit your website, you expect certain information and a lot of it. In other words, they want to know everything about their vacation rental in words and pictures: Not only about the equipment, but also leisure activities from ski slope to beach as well as the journey including route planner (Google Maps etc.) for the exact location of the vacation rental. At least as interesting: Did other guests like it? Are the reviews authentic or do you smell the fake? Experienced users feel what's wrong - and click to the competition. After all, leisure and holidays are too precious to take risks when investing time and money. Rule of thumb: The more detailed the information, the greater the chance of trust. Provide incentives that make it easier for users to return to you - through special offers or the publication of news with added value.

Docking to platforms - from TripAdvisor to Booking.com

Traditional and proven, the registration in web directories of tourism associations for landlords of vacation homes makes further sense. But to reach as many target groups as possible on platforms such as Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Wimdu, Expedia or Booking.com, but also regional portals, you need to extend your radius. Create new channels and advertise your holiday home on selected portals. Once online, the extra work is limited to your duty to keep your calendars up to date, while a Channel Manager keeps an overview in real time: Who are the next guests? Do I have vacancies, do I have to react? Channel Management shows all this, bundled in the cockpit - and without (double) bookings coming into the enclosure. One of your holiday homes is being booked, the other one is still available? The system - with interfaces to portals and platforms - blocks your offer accordingly.

Worth its weight in gold: Guestbook and references

Do you like your offers? That honors you. In addition, enthusiastic evaluations of your guests have their very own potential. Which is why you should not only trust in regular guests, but also attract new customers in the low season - for better capacity utilization. Always ask for a review, which you publish where decisions are made - on the website itself. Your website builder as an instrument collects, bundles and publishes ratings. Or create a public guestbook, which offers your visitors space for greetings and comments. This way you can get in touch with guests in no time, respond directly to reviews and maintain important relationships. The currency from which landlords of holiday properties live? The recommendations of satisfied guests, of course - and therefore worth its weight in gold. Do not refrain from integrating your experience reports and evaluations!