Rural cottages and holiday apartments

Let your guests book with you, commission-free

Novantrek designs the website for your holiday let, with full-screen photos and booking requests sent straight to your inbox. From €690 and €19/month, excl. VAT.

Request your free proposal See how much you win back

Fixed price in writing and the domain in your name.

Example: a €480 booking

Four nights for two people

Through the portal€408
−€72 in commission (15%)
Through your website€473
−€7 if you take card payment (gateway, around 1.5%)

€65 more for you on this booking. Twenty like it a year add up to €1,300.

What you pay the portal without noticing

The portal deducts its commission before paying you, which is why it goes unnoticed. Added up over a year, it looks like this:

15–18%

of every booking through a portal

That is the usual range for the big portals. Airbnb splits part of it between guest and host, but it comes out of the same final price.

€4,500

a year if you take €30,000 through portals

At 15% commission. If half of those bookings move to your website, that is about €2,000 a year that stays with you.

0%

commission on direct bookings

Your website charges nothing per booking: the first and the hundredth arrive in full. If you take card payment, the gateway keeps around 1.5%, like a card terminal.

Example figures: the exact commission depends on the portal, your category and the promotions you have switched on. With your own numbers, Novantrek works out the sums for you in the proposal.

The portal gets you discovered; your website brings guests back

Keep the portals to reach people who don't know you yet. The bookings that were already yours, from returning guests, recommendations or people searching for you by name, come in through your website.

What the portal gives you

  • Being discovered by people who didn't know you
  • Filling odd gaps in the low season
  • Visibility while you build up your own reviews

What your website gives you

  • The returning guest, without paying someone else's fee
  • People who search for your name on Google after seeing you on the portal
  • Long stays, groups and whole-house lets, where commission hurts most
  • Your place alone on the screen, without forty others next to it

Everything guests look at before they book

From a village house to six apartments: photos that sell, clear information and a booking request sent in a minute.

Full-screen photos

The first thing guests look at: large, sharp and without odd cropping.

A page for each property

Each house or apartment with its own photos, capacity and price.

Booking requests by email

The guest chooses dates and party size, and you receive a tidy email, ready to answer.

Things to do nearby

Walks, beaches, wineries and restaurants: what guests appreciate most, and what helps people searching for "rural cottage" plus the name of your area to find you.

In your guests' language

Spanish, English and any others you need, including Galician, Catalan or Basque. The languages are chosen when we quote.

Visits measured without cookies

Which countries visitors come from and which property gets the most views, so you know which market to speak to.

Legal details in plain sight

Tourist registration number, cancellation terms and basic legal texts.

Built for your property

Your website and the portals, on the same calendar

Booking, Airbnb and channel managers share availability in a standard format, iCal. Novantrek connects your website to that loop: whatever is booked on a portal is blocked on your website, and vice versa, without you having to touch it.

Also built to measure: a deposit taken by card or Bizum at the time of booking, and a form that collects guest details before arrival. Built for your property and quoted separately.

The portals refresh their calendars from time to time, usually somewhere between fifteen minutes and a couple of hours. If you sell lots of single last-minute nights, Novantrek suggests a channel manager and includes it in the quote.

Example: August

Booked on the portalBooked on your websiteAvailable

We adapt to the way you let

Whole house, by the room, by the bed or by the month: Novantrek builds the website to suit your property.

Whole rural cottageLet in full, by the night or for weekends
Cottage let by roomsWith breakfast and shared areas
Holiday apartmentsOne or many, each with its own page
Cabins and glampingWhere the photo sells everything
Rural hotelRooms, services and seasons
Village housesRestored, with a story to tell
HostelsWith beds by the night
Seasonal letsWinter months and remote working

Try the examples as a guest would

Three complete example websites you can browse. The first is for holiday lets; the other two adapt just as well to a rural cottage.

Map and listing

Several houses spread across the area: guests choose by location and compare without getting lost.

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Horizontal tour

You move sideways, photo by photo, like someone showing you round the house. For when the place itself is what sells.

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Step-by-step wizard

Dates, party size, extras and done: booking without thinking, in four short screens.

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What your booking website costs

Here is the starting price; you receive yours fixed and in writing before we start.

Website with direct bookings

from €690 + VAT

Plus €19/month + VAT for maintenance.

  • Design for your property, with full-screen photos
  • A page for each house or apartment
  • Booking requests by email
  • Things to do nearby, so you are found on Google
  • Tourist registration and basic legal texts on display
Request your booking website

About 11 direct bookings and it has paid for itself

With the example €480 booking, every guest who books on your website instead of the portal leaves you €65 more. At that rate, the website pays for itself with about 11 direct bookings, and the monthly fee with less than half a booking a month.

The domain, in your name

It is registered in your name and you pay the registrar directly, about €12 a year. Hosting the website costs €0.

Whatever you need, built to measure

Calendar synced with the portals, deposits taken online or guest details collected in advance: Novantrek builds it for your property and quotes it separately.

Free review

Is your website yours, or a directory listing?

If your property lives on a directory's template, your photos, prices and enquiries depend on someone else. Send us the address and we will send you, free and in writing, what is yours and how to move to a website of your own.

Send us your website

A website of your own ticks all three:

  • The domain is registered in your name
  • You change photos, prices and text whenever you like
  • Booking requests come straight to your inbox

What owners ask us

What if I get two bookings for the same night?
With the synced calendar, which Novantrek builds to measure, your website reads the portals' calendars and publishes its own: whatever is taken in one place is blocked in the others. There remains the portals' refresh window, which usually runs from fifteen minutes to a couple of hours. If you sell lots of single last-minute nights, Novantrek suggests a channel manager and includes it in the quote.
Can I take a deposit through the website?
Yes. Card or Bizum payment is built to measure and quoted separately. The usual approach is to ask for 20% to 30% when booking and the rest on arrival, but it can be set up however you prefer: a fixed deposit, a percentage or full payment. The gateway keeps around 1.5%, which is the figure in the sums above. As standard, the booking arrives as a request in your inbox and you take the deposit the way you already do.
Do I have to drop Booking or Airbnb?
The portals and your website complement each other. The portal brings you guests who didn't know you; your website brings the ones who already do: returning guests, recommendations and people who search for your name after seeing you in the listings. Every booking that moves to your website is commission that stays with you.
Can I show a lower price on my website than on the portal?
It depends on what you signed with the portal. Price parity clauses have been a tug of war for years and European rules have kept changing, so the first step is to check your contract or ask your adviser. To reward direct bookings without touching the price there are plenty of options: late checkout, a welcome hamper, cleaning included or the fourth night at half price.
I have three apartments. Do I need three websites?
One is enough: a website with a page for each apartment, with its own photos, capacity and price. Guests see all three, compare and request the one that suits them. If you open a fourth one day, it is added without rebuilding anything.
What about the guest registration now required?
You submit the details to the Ministry's platform yourself, either there or from your management software. Novantrek takes the groundwork off your hands with custom automation: a form that reaches the guest automatically a few days before arrival and collects their details, so you don't have to copy them from ID cards at the front desk.
I don't have good photos. Will it still work?
Photos are what sells a holiday let most, so they are worth getting right. Novantrek tells you which photos you need (times of day, rooms, how many) and, if you prefer, helps you find a photographer in your area.
How long before it brings me bookings?
Bookings from people who already know you can start on day one: as soon as you put the address in your email signature, on your Instagram and on a sign at the house. Bookings from new guests via Google grow as the website ranks in your area, and that takes a few months.

Contact

Tell us about your property

Capacity, the portals you are on and the commission you pay today: with that, Novantrek prepares your proposal and price, in writing and with no obligation.

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