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Websites for pubs, restaurants and places to stay.
Hospitality web design · Telford & Shropshire
Your venue already sells atmosphere in the flesh. Your website should do the same, and then let people book without handing a cut to Booking.com or a third-party table app. I build cinematic hospitality sites with direct table and room bookings, so you keep the commission and the customer. See yours built free before you pay a penny.
Stop paying the OTAs 15% of every booking
Booking.com, the OTAs and third-party table apps sit between you and your own guests, and they take a cut of every cover and every room night for the privilege. On rooms that commission is routinely 15% or more, night after night, forever. A website that takes bookings directly keeps that money in your till and, just as important, keeps the customer's details so you can bring them back yourself instead of renting them from a platform.
The maths is blunt. If an OTA skims fifteen percent of your room revenue, a site that shifts even a portion of those bookings direct pays for itself in a matter of weeks, then keeps paying you every month after.
The Water Rat, Ironbridge
One booking. Table and room, in sync.
- One booking engine that handles a table and a room together
- Six rooms and the full menu on the same site
- Direct on their own site, so no commission on the booking
A booking button that actually gets used
Most venue websites hide booking behind a phone number or a clunky form nobody trusts. I build direct table and room booking straight into a site people believe in, so the guest reserves in a few taps and never leaves your world. It can sit alongside the systems you already run or replace them, whichever is least disruptive.
I work with what you already use rather than forcing a rip-and-replace. If your rooms live in Eviivo, for example, I integrate with it so your calendar stays in one place and nothing double-books. The point is a booking flow guests will actually complete, not another dashboard for you to babysit.
Within two days they had TWO demo sites for me to look at
Cinematic, because the room has to sell itself
Hospitality is sold on atmosphere. The warmth of the bar, the light through the window, the plate coming to the table. A dated site strips all of that out and leaves a menu PDF. I build sites with big photography, generous space and a feel that lands like walking in, so a stranger scrolling on their phone can already picture themselves there. Every one is art-directed from scratch for that venue, never a reskin of the last one.
Who I build for
- Country pubs and inns
- Restaurants and gastropubs
- Cafes and coffee shops
- B&Bs and guest houses
- Small hotels
- Wedding and events venues
A few of the hospitality sites I've built: The Water Rat, a riverside pub with unified table and room booking, Ye Olde Robin Hood Inn, Buckatree Hall country hotel and Grove House guest house. You can also browse the full wall of builds.
Not strictly hospitality? I also do website redesigns, small business websites and ecommerce web design on the same free-first terms.
Built for businesses like yours.
Every one of these started as a free demo on a real link, built before anybody paid anything.
How the free demo works.
Tell me about your place
A link to your current site or socials and a quick note on how you take bookings now.
10 minutesI build your demo, free
A full cinematic site with direct table or room booking, on a real link.
7–10 working daysReview it, add real photos
Test it on your phone, swap in your own photography, we tweak until it's right.
As long as you needApprove it and go live
£149 a month, three month minimum, then an optional £149 a month, migrated to your domain with bookings wired in.
Live within a weekAfter three months it is yours
Three payments of £149, £447 in total, and the files are yours to keep. Stay on the plan and I host it and look after it. Leave, and you still keep the website.
Month 3 onward
Three ways to get a website.
No prices for anyone else, because I do not know what they will quote you. This is just what is true about each route.
| Doing it yourself | A page builder subscription | This | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who designs it | You, around the day job | You, from a template library | Me, around your business |
| What you pay before you see it | Your evenings | The subscription, from day one | Nothing |
| What you actually see first | A blank editor | A demo of somebody else's shop | A full working site on a real link |
| Who fixes it when it breaks | You | A help centre | Me, same day |
| If you stop paying | It is still yours | The site lives inside the platform | The files are yours to keep |
| The cost | Time | Monthly, forever | £149 a month, three month minimum, £447 in total |
Hospitality questions, answered.
Will the booking system replace what I use now?
It can sit alongside what you have or replace it, whichever is least disruptive. We work out the least painful path together, and I can integrate with the tools you already run, for example Eviivo for rooms, so you're not forced into a rip-and-replace.
Do you take any commission on my bookings?
No. Every direct booking through your site is yours, in full. You keep the money the OTAs and third-party apps would have taken, and you keep the customer relationship too.
Can you make table and room bookings work on one site?
Yes. I build a unified booking flow so a guest can reserve a table or a room from one place without being bounced between systems. The Water Rat in Ironbridge is a live example, one site handling both Dine and Stay.
I run a B&B, is that still your thing?
Yes. B&Bs, guest houses and small hotels are a core part of the work, alongside pubs and restaurants. The direct-booking approach matters most exactly where OTA commission on rooms bites hardest.
Is there a minimum term?
Yes. If you'd rather have it all handled from day one, it's simply £149 a month straight up and we get going: the build, hosting, unlimited changes, SEO and support are all included. You still see your free demo first, and you can cancel any time after the first three months.
Want direct bookings that beat the OTAs?
Send me a link to your venue. I'll show you honestly how a cinematic site with direct booking could work for you, and then build it for free to prove it.
I reply the same day. Prefer email or a call? hello@elev8depictions.com · 07854 114975