Rooms that photograph well
Gallery-led room and property sections with fast-loading photography, the deciding factor for nearly every stay booked online.
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Every direct enquiry skips the commission.
Booking platforms take a cut of every stay and own the guest relationship. A good direct site earns some of that back: your rooms and rates presented your way, the questions every guest asks answered up front, and enquiries arriving commission-free in your inbox.
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The whole stack
Everything you need to run it.
Room rates, availability enquiries, and a site that answers guests in their own language before they book elsewhere.
What your site needs
The three jobs your website must do.
Guest questions answered early
FAQ sections for check-in times, parking, pets, and accessibility: fewer repetitive emails and more completed enquiries.
Guests from anywhere
Multi-language publishing translates your whole site in one click and tells search engines which version to show in each country.
Made for hotels & stays
The right sections, ready to drop in.
- Photo galleryrooms, views, breakfast
- FAQcheck-in, parking, pets
- Service-area maplocation and what is nearby
- Enquiry formdates + party size to your inbox
Try this briefExample
“Four-room coastal B&B in Cornwall, sea views and home-cooked breakfast, two-night minimum in summer”
You get a draft with a gallery for the rooms, the check-in and parking answers up front, and an enquiry form that carries dates and party size.
It starts from a template made for the trade. Here that is Boutique Hotel, the one rendered live at the top of this page.
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Why it works
A website that does the whole job.
Every stay booked through a platform costs a commission and the guest's email address. You will not own the platform relationship, but you can own the direct one. A guest who loved their stay, or was recommended by a friend, looks for your own website first, and what they find decides whether the booking is commission-free. Pendro covers the essentials properly: room pages led by fast photography, an honest FAQ on check-in, parking, pets, and accessibility, and a map showing what is nearby.
Direct enquiries come through a form capturing dates, party size, and questions, arriving in your inbox for you to confirm availability by reply. There is no channel-manager complexity and no double-booking risk. For international guests, multi-language publishing translates the whole site in one click and tells search engines which version to show where, so a German family searching for a Cornish coastal stay finds you in German. The newsletter keeps past guests close.
Every plan starts free — see what each plan includes.
Small hotels and B&Bs mostly compare Squarespace. The useful section is direct enquiries: how much of the guest relationship each product lets you keep once the listing site has taken its cut. Read the full Pendro vs Squarespace comparison, or see how Pendro measures up against Wix, Framer and WordPress.
Templates
Start from a template made for your trade.
Questions
Asked by hotels & stays.
Can guests book and pay for rooms on the site?
Guests send an enquiry with their dates and party size, and you confirm availability and take payment however suits you, by reply, by phone, or through your existing system. Every booking stays commission-free, and you own the guest relationship from the first message.
Will a direct site really reduce my platform commission bill?
It shifts the mix. Returning guests and personal recommendations look for your own site, and if it presents the rooms well and makes enquiring easy, those stays come to you directly. Even a handful of direct bookings a month usually covers the cost of the site several times over.
Can the site work in multiple languages?
Yes. Multi-language publishing translates your pages in one click and serves each visitor the right language, with the underlying signals that tell search engines which version to show in which country. You write once and publish everywhere.
Can I show live availability?
Pendro does not run a live availability calendar. Enquiries come to your inbox and you confirm from your own diary. For a small property that is often an advantage: no synchronisation errors, and every enquiry becomes a direct conversation with the guest.
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Looking designed.
No card, no time limit. One site free forever, and nothing you change can make it look undesigned.