For independent holiday-let owners

Your guests.
Your money.
Save £2,880 a year.

A direct-booking site for your holiday let. Guests pay you direct via Stripe — and we sync with Airbnb so nothing double-books.

Founding-member pricing, locked for life
thelodge.hostcation.com
Upcoming stays
Sarah & James
12 — 16 Jun · 4 nights
£540
Direct
M. Hofmann
20 — 23 Jun · 3 nights
£405
Direct
This month
£3,240
Paid out to your bank
Saved vs Airbnb fees
£486
15% kept in your pocket

Syncs with every booking platform you already use

  • Airbnb
  • Booking.com
  • Vrbo
  • cottages.com
  • Sykes Cottages
  • Hoseasons
  • Airbnb
  • Booking.com
  • Vrbo
  • cottages.com
  • Sykes Cottages
  • Hoseasons
Built for you, by AI, while you make tea

Your site. Designed for you.

Send us a link — your Airbnb listing, your Booking.com page, even just your Facebook page or current website. We pull your photos, your reviews, your amenities, your vibe — and ship a personalised site auto-tuned to your property in under an hour. No design skills needed.

  • Personalised end to end — colours, copy, photos, layout.
  • Hands-off. Live in under an hour. We even write the listing.
  • Tweak anything you want, anytime, from your dashboard.
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The Lodge at Stirling
Riverside · Sleeps 6 · Hot tub
From £135 / night
Check dates →
Generated in 38 seconds. Edit anything you want from the dashboard.
Why hosts are walking away from the big platforms

You did the work. They took the cut.

Every booking through Airbnb shaves 15–20% off your nightly rate. Multiply that across a year and you've worked weekends to fund their billboards. Direct bookings keep that money.

Listing on
Airbnb

15-20% gone before you start.

  • 15-20% of every booking goes to Airbnb. You worked weekends to fund their billboards.
  • Your listing looks like every other Airbnb listing. Same template, no brand.
  • Repeat guests still rebook through Airbnb — and you pay the commission again.
  • Reviews live on Airbnb's profile. Your reputation builds their search, not yours.
Listing on
Hostcation.

A flat fee. The rest is yours.

  • £10/month flat — every booking after that is 100% yours.
  • Your photos, your copy, your colours, your domain. A real brand, not a listing.
  • Guest email and phone number land in your inbox. Email them next season. They book you, not a marketplace.
  • Reviews live on your site. Every guest you delight grows your search, not someone else's.
Up and running by the weekend

Three steps. Hands-off.

Step one of three

We build your site.

Send us your Airbnb, Booking.com, Facebook page — or any link you have. Our AI pulls your photos, your reviews and your vibe, then ships a personalised site in under an hour.

Step two of three

Plug in your calendars.

Paste iCal links from Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo or Sykes. We pull blocked dates every hour so direct bookings can never clash.

Step three of three

Get paid direct.

Guests pick dates, pay by card via Stripe, the money lands in your bank. We email you and the guest the confirmation.

A real business, on a quiet platform

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Zero commission.
Every booking.

You pay a flat £10/month per property. Not 15% of every guest, not a £3 booking fee — flat.

£0
Avg saved per year per property vs Airbnb

Stripe payouts

Direct to your bank in 2 days.

No double-bookings

Two-way iCal sync, hourly.

Mobile-first checkout

Fast on phones. Where guests book.

Your own domain

Free subdomain, or bring yours.

One dashboard. One login.

Rates, calendars, payouts and upcoming stays — on a single page that takes thirty seconds to learn.

Bookings
12
This month
£3,240
Synced
38s ago
The bit that scares everyone

Real two-way sync.
Nothing double-books.

Hostcation pulls iCal feeds from every platform you list on, and pushes your direct bookings back the same way. Hourly. Quiet. The nightmare of “they booked it on Airbnb too” — solved.

Live sync · refreshed 14 seconds ago
synced
AirbnbiCal
Booking.comiCal
VrboiCal
Sykes CottagesiCal
Your Hostcation calendar
Direct Synced
Quick maths · using your real numbers

How much would you keep?

Drag the sliders to roughly match your year. The number on the right is what would've stayed in your account on Hostcation instead of going to Airbnb.

Your situation

Slide it. See what you'd keep.

140 nights
£135

Assumes a 17% blended Airbnb host + service fee. Hostcation cost includes the £10/property/month annual plan plus standard Stripe processing (~1.5% + 20p per booking, UK).

You'd keep an extra
£2,800
per year, per property
Airbnb fees today
£3,213
Hostcation total
£413
That's about £60 back in your pocket on every booking.
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From the first hosts on the platform

Quiet little wins. Adding up.

I got my first direct booking the same weekend I signed up. The Airbnb sync just worked.

Cotswolds cottage host

Two-night stay paid me £340. Airbnb would have taken £58 of that. Multiply that over a year and it's a holiday.

Lake District two-bed

I was scared of the calendar sync. It took ten minutes to set up and I've not had a clash since.

Cornwall coastal let
Launch pricing · first 100 hosts only

Half price for year one. Locked for life.

We're onboarding our first 100 hosts at 50% off. Whatever you pay on day one is what you pay every year after — no commission either way, no price rises.

50% off year one
Annual
£20£10/ property / month

Billed annually · Launch pricing locked for life

  • 14-day free trial — no card
  • 0% commission on every booking
  • Sync with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Sykes & more
  • Stripe payouts straight to your bank
  • Custom subdomain (or bring your own domain)
  • Mobile-first guest checkout
  • Cancel any time
Claim launch price
Save £10/month
Monthly
£25£15/ property / month

Billed monthly · Cancel any time

  • 14-day free trial — no card
  • 0% commission on every booking
  • Sync with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Sykes & more
  • Stripe payouts straight to your bank
  • Custom subdomain (or bring your own domain)
  • Mobile-first guest checkout
  • Cancel any time
Start 14-day trial

5+ properties? We set up bespoke — hello@hostcation.com

Honest answers to the obvious questions

The bits hosts always ask.

Can't find what you're after? Ask a human.

Right — that's the whole point. Drop in your Airbnb link and our AI builds the site for you, pulling your photos, your reviews, your amenities, and matching colours and copy to your property's vibe. You can tweak anything from the dashboard later — change the hero image, rewrite a section, swap colours — but most hosts ship as-is.
You give us the iCal link from Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Sykes Cottages — anywhere you currently list. We pull blocked dates every hour and push your direct bookings back the same way. So a guest booking on Airbnb sees the date is blocked on your Hostcation site the same hour, and vice versa.
Direct to your bank via Stripe Connect. You set up Stripe in 5 minutes during onboarding. We never touch the funds — Stripe pays you in 2 business days, every time. Standard Stripe processing fees apply (about 1.5% + 20p in the UK), but there's no Hostcation commission on top.
Each property gets its own site, calendar and Stripe payout destination. You manage them all from one host dashboard. Pricing is per property, per month — so two properties on the annual plan is £20/month total.
Two things: your site can use a custom subdomain like thelodge.hostcation.com, OR you can plug in your own domain (thelodgeatstirling.com) for that extra layer of trust — we'll walk you through the DNS in five minutes. Either way, payment goes through Stripe's hosted checkout — the same Stripe used by Apple, Google and Amazon. Conversion is high because guests don't have to create an account.
Cancel any time from your dashboard. We don't lock you into a contract. Your guest data is yours — we'll export it for you within 24 hours.
No. The point is to add direct bookings alongside, so you keep the discovery from Airbnb but slowly steer repeat guests and word-of-mouth bookings to your direct site. Most hosts halve their Airbnb dependency in the first year.
Stop renting your business from Airbnb

Your guests.
Your terms.

14-day free trial. No card needed. We build the site for you in under an hour.

Card payments by Stripe · iCal sync, hourly · Cancel any time