Website design for bed and breakfasts
Guests compare a bed and breakfast's own website with its travel-site listing, so it has to show the rooms honestly, answer what they ask before they commit, and make booking direct as easy as booking through a travel site. We shape it around your rooms and the rhythm of the house, with every Book direct button opening the booking engine you already use, and send a free first draft in 5 to 7 business days; the fixed launch fee, from $499, is due only when you decide to launch.
We usually recommend the Website launch: up to 5 pages, $499 once.
Rooms worth comparing, the rhythm of the house, and a Book direct button that opens your own calendar.
Each room with its bed size, how many it sleeps, the view, the bathroom (en suite or shared, shower or tub), stairs and accessibility notes, and a few true-to-life photos, so guests pick the right room before they book instead of asking afterward.
One clear button that opens your own booking engine, with the dates passed through where your engine allows it, repeated on every room and in the sticky bar on phones. A guest who books direct is a booking you pay no travel-site commission on.
Check-in and check-out times, minimum stays on weekends and holidays, deposit and cancellation terms, children and pets, and what happens with a late arrival. Clear policies save emails and avoid awkward conversations at the door.
What breakfast is and when it's served, how you handle dietary requests, quiet hours, parking, the shared rooms and the garden, and whatever makes the place itself. This is where a small inn competes on feel rather than on price.
Your own short guide to walks, beaches, restaurants and day trips, plus directions for arriving by car, train or ferry. Guests often read it while they plan, and it gives search engines words that tie your inn to the area.
A short form for groups, weddings, long stays or questions, asking for dates, the number of guests and a message, with a date picker that works properly on a phone.
Sites we designed and built for made-up businesses, to show what we do: open one on your phone and try it. On your site, booking, ordering and shop buttons open the tools you already use.
Inns that want a page per room or a weddings and events section usually move up to the Pro launch, but most B&Bs fit a home page, the rooms, breakfast and house policies, a local guide, and booking and contact into one small site. That's the Website launch: up to 5 pages for $499, paid once when you launch.
Rates, availability and payments stay in the booking engine or channel manager you already use, such as Cloudbeds, ThinkReservations, Little Hotelier or ResNexus; the Book direct button opens it, so bookings arrive the way they do now. Gift certificates, packages and your reviews are linked from wherever they live, and we take no commission on any booking.
Linking your own website to a listing site means paying commission on bookings you'd already won, with other properties shown right beside yours. The button belongs on your own booking engine.
Prices and availability written into the website go stale the moment you change them in your booking system. We link the live calendar instead, so there's only one place to update.
Wide, moody shots of the garden are lovely, but guests want to see the bed, the bathroom and the view from the window. Photos of the actual rooms mean fewer surprises at check-in.
When cancellation terms, minimum stays or pet rules appear only after booking, guests feel caught out. They belong on the site, in plain words, where people make up their minds.
Three steps, and most of the work is ours.
The short form, or a chat with the team. Send photos, your logo, your menu: whatever you have.
Screenshots for computer and phone and a private preview link (2 to 3 business days with priority, overnight with rush). Ask for changes in plain words until it's right.
Pay the fixed launch fee only when you're happy. With the care plan, we put the site live on your domain and look after it; without it, we hand you the files to host yourself.
One fee, paid once when you launch. Choose by how many pages your site needs, or ask for a custom quote.
A shop, café, trade or practice that needs the essentials done really well.
$499
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteRecommended
A growing business with more services, more locations or more to say.
$999
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Website, plus:
A larger firm, a group or a launch that has to be exactly right.
$2,000
one time, paid when you launch
Start your siteEverything in Pro, plus:
Bigger sites, several locations or brands, or special features.
Let's talk
a fixed quote from our team
Get a custom quoteEverything in Signature, plus:
See your site before you pay anything. No card needed to start.
No hourly rates and no surprise invoices: anything extra is on our price list and agreed first.
Once it's paid for, the site and its files are yours, and a domain we register is in your name. Let us host it, or take it anywhere.
Most B&Bs and small inns choose the Website launch: $499 once for up to 5 pages, with every room compared on one page, paid only when you decide to launch, after a free first draft. Hosting and your domain are separate, in the optional care plan at $49 a month or $490 a year; your rates and availability never need us, because they live in your booking engine. Inns that want a page per room usually move up to the Pro launch; see every price, and our guide to what a small business website costs elsewhere.
Yes, through the booking engine you already use. The Book direct button opens your own calendar in Cloudbeds, ThinkReservations, Little Hotelier, ResNexus or similar, so bookings and payments stay in that system.
No. You pay one launch fee for the site and, if you want us to host and look after it, a care plan; the bookings themselves are between you, your guests and your booking engine.
Yes. Until you choose one, the site can take stay inquiries by email and show your phone number, and when you set up a booking engine we swap in the link. We don't build booking systems ourselves.
It can help by giving guests who find you on a listing site or a map a clear place to book direct, but it won't replace those sites overnight. Many inns use both: listings to be discovered, and their own site for direct and returning guests.
They can when your site says clearly what you offer: the rooms, the location, the policies and what's nearby, in text those tools can read. We write pages that way from the start, and SEO & AEO care keeps tuning them every month.
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Tell us about your business and we'll do the rest. Questions first? Email hello@ciderwebsites.com.
You pay only when you launch.
