Website for B&Bs and holiday lets

Why a B&B needs a website of its own

Platforms are still useful for being discovered. The website is for everything that comes after: the guest who comes back the following year, the one who heard about you through a friend, the one who wants to ask if the dog is welcome before committing. Those are the bookings that shouldn’t cost you anything.

And there’s the part that doesn’t fit on a platform: the history of the house, who makes breakfast, the path that starts from the garden, the grotto where you eat in the evening. It’s why people choose a B&B over a hotel, and it’s what the site tells.

What to put on a B&B website

The site starts with hospitality sections — rooms, the property, availability — and with photos of the right kind, to replace with your own.

• The rooms, one by one Photos, beds, private or shared bathroom, view, price from. Couples and families with children look at different things: write them all down.
• The property Breakfast, terrace, garden, parking, bike storage. These are the details that make people choose you over the flat next door.
• The area What to do on foot, by car, when it rains. A free-text section is enough: it’s also the content Google rewards, because it answers real questions.
• Getting here Address, an accurate map, train and PostBus, where to leave the car. Anyone arriving at night in a village they don’t know will thank you.
• House rules Check-in, check-out, pets, tourist tax, cancellation. Better to read them beforehand than discover them on arrival.
• Availability The button to ask about dates. With the management software it becomes a real booking request, with free nights and the price worked out.

Three templates for B&Bs and holiday lets

All twenty-eight templates are available, and none costs more. These three are the most natural starting points: you can switch template later without losing your text.

• Terrazza The photo fills the whole first screen and the text can breathe: made for those with a view to show.
• Riviera Sky blue, sand and sun: for houses by the lake or the sea.
• Giardino Soft greens and gentle shapes, for the farm stay, the farmhouse, the house in the hills.

Showing up when someone’s looking for a place to stay

People looking for somewhere to stay type the place first: ‘B&B Maggia Valley’, ‘holiday let Lake Lugano’, ‘where to stay in Morcote’. The LyamFlow site starts with a title containing the name, the type of accommodation and the village, and the area section adds all the local words a platform won’t let you write.

What to do, just once:

• put the site’s address in your property’s Google Business Profile and in your description on every platform that allows it: that’s where a curious guest will look;
• write the area section the way you’d describe it to a guest over breakfast, with the real names of places;
• put the room photos in order, best first: the first one is the one that decides.

Direct bookings, no commission

The site is free on its own too. With the hospitality management software, the ‘Availability’ button becomes a real booking request: the guest picks the dates and the room, the system checks it’s free and works out the price from your rates, and the booking lands in the room calendar. LyamFlow takes no commission on the night: you pay the subscription, not a percentage.

Everything else is in there too: room calendar, guest list, payments. A fourteen-day trial, then the Basic plan.

How it works, trade by trade: management software for your business.

What it costs

• Free the website, forever Every template and every section, published at lyamflow.com/s/casa-glicine. No credit card.
• CHF 9 / month your own domain Optional: your own .ch or .it address instead of the free one, plus the domain registration.
• CHF 29.90 / month Basic plan, with the management software Room calendar, direct bookings from the site, guests and payments. No commission on nights. After a 14-day trial.

Frequently asked questions

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