Book direct
Add-onYour booking engine or a request form with dates.
Web design for hotels, guesthouses & holiday flats
More direct bookings. Less commission.
Booking platforms bring guests – and take a sizeable cut. We build websites for small hotels, guesthouses, B&Bs and holiday flats in Switzerland that make guests from home and abroad happy to book direct.
- Fixed price from CHF 1’190
- Live in 2–4 weeks
- 100 % remote, same time zone
What matters
Guests almost always check your own website too.
Many guests find you on a booking platform – then search for your name. If your website reassures them and lets them book direct, you keep the commission.
Common problems
- High commission paid to booking platforms
- Old photos on your own website
- Not enough languages for international guests
- No reason to book direct
Your new website
- Booking requests directly on your website
- Every room with large, up-to-date photos
- German, English, French, Italian – whatever your guests need
- A clear perk for booking direct (e.g. best rate or late check-out)
Example design
What your website could look like.
A concept design for small hotels, guesthouses and holiday flats, with everything clients look for: clear services, opening hours and a prominent “Book direct” button. Your own site is designed from scratch in your colours and in the languages your clients speak.
- Works on every device
- “Book direct” button
- Set up for Google
- Loads in under a second
Concept design of a fictional business, shown in German (built for our home market). The preview scrolls through the whole page – hover over it to watch again.
Features
What a website for hosts needs.
Rooms & facilities
Every room with photos, size and what's included.
Location & region
Lake, mountains, old town or ski area – why your location is worth the trip.
Book-direct perk
A clear explanation of why booking direct pays off.
Multilingual
Add-onThe languages your guests speak, each with its own SEO structure.
Rates & seasons
Clear rates for summer and winter season, minimum stays, packages and tourist tax.
Structure
How your website is structured.
Welcoming, clear and with the booking button always in view.
- HomeAtmosphere, location, booking.
- Rooms / apartmentsOne page per room or unit.
- Region & activitiesHiking, skiing, lakes, local tips and how to get here.
- Rates & offersBy season.
- AboutYour hosts and your house.
- Contact & bookingRequest form or booking engine.
What your clients search for
Accommodation searches are local, seasonal and often in several languages:
- hotel Zermatt
- B&B Lucerne
- guesthouse Bernese Oberland
- holiday apartment Engadin
- small hotel Lugano
- boutique hotel Montreux
Occasion pages (e.g. “Ski holidays in winter” or “Hiking weekend in summer”) bring in guests who search for exactly your region – ideally in each of your guests' languages.
Our recommendation
The right package for small hotels, guesthouses and holiday flats.
Several room pages, large photo galleries and a polished presence – that's why we recommend Premium. A booking engine and extra languages are available as add-ons. A single holiday flat can start well with Starter or Standard.
Optional add-ons: Google Business Profile (CHF 319), online booking & reservations (CHF 249), blog/news (CHF 489), additional languages such as German, French or Italian (from CHF 489) and more.
Premium
For businesses with several services, locations or languages that want a particularly strong presence.
CHF 3’190 one-off
- Up to 8 pages
- Everything in Standard
- Licence-free images selected for you
- Advanced SEO structure for every page
- Custom animations & interactions
- Priority support
From Frankfurt am Main
From Frankfurt. Remote for SMEs across Switzerland.
Hospitality means long days, especially in high season, so we keep things simple: fully remote, initial call by video, then phone, email or WhatsApp when it suits you. We build websites for hotels, guesthouses and holiday flats across Switzerland – same process, same fixed price in Swiss francs.
FAQ
Questions from hoteliers and hosts
Which booking engine is right for me?
If you already use a channel manager, we integrate its booking engine as an add-on. Otherwise many small properties start with a simple booking request form.
Which languages does my website need?
That depends on your guests: often the local language plus English, and in tourist regions also a second national language. Each additional language is an add-on from CHF 489, with its own URLs so Google shows the right version.
How do I persuade guests to book direct?
With a clear advantage: best rate, breakfast or a regional guest card included, late check-out or more flexible cancellation.
Can the site reflect summer and winter season?
Yes. Seasonal rates, minimum stays and closing periods between seasons are shown clearly, and we update them when you send changes.
What does a hotel or guesthouse website cost?
Premium is CHF 3’190 one-off; smaller properties start from CHF 1’190. Extra languages are available as add-ons from CHF 489.
Contact
Let's talk about your website.
Tell us briefly about your project. You'll receive a personal reply within 24 hours and a proposed time for a free initial call.
- hello@bauwau-designstudio.com
- +49 179 1619087
- Message us on WhatsApp
- Reply within 24 h on working days (CET, same as Switzerland)
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany · working with businesses across Switzerland