Hotel Website Design in Doncaster
Hotel websites that win direct bookings from guests coming to Doncaster. We design and build custom websites for hotels, B&Bs and guest houses in Doncaster, with a page for every room, a booking engine that shows live availability and the full price, and a guide to the area that tells a guest exactly where you are and what is nearby.
Web Design for Hotels in Doncaster
DigitalPod is a UK-based design and web development studio that provides its web design services across the UK, including website design for hotels in Doncaster. Every website is designed from scratch around the business and hand-coded, with no templates, and you deal with the same website designer and developer from the first call to launch. The studio specialises in startup website design and website redesigns, and websites for hotels start from £2,400, with the price fixed before any work begins.
How Guests Choose Where to Stay in Doncaster
Almost nobody booking a room in Doncaster lives there. Your guests are planning from somewhere else, comparing on a travel site places they have never seen, and they cannot tell from a listing how close each one is to whatever they are coming for. Once they have a shortlist, they search for each hotel by name and look at its own website for better photographs, the parking, the walk to where they need to be and a reason to book direct. If your site answers less than the listing does, they go back and book through the platform.
Doncaster Racecourse on Town Moor is home to the St Leger, the oldest of the classic races, and Yorkshire Wildlife Park at Branton is a major family attraction. In the centre, the market around the Corn Exchange and the Wool Market trades close to the Frenchgate shopping centre, with Cast and the Danum Gallery, Library and Museum for culture and outlet shopping at Lakeside Village. Bawtry, to the south-east, has hotels and places to eat of its own. Race-goers and families book ahead, so rooms, tables and tickets must be easy to reserve online.
The St Leger meeting and other race days on Town Moor bring people to stay, as do family trips to Yorkshire Wildlife Park. A hotel's website should say how far it is from the course and the park, show group and family rooms, and take bookings direct.
A hotel website that wins that booking does three things the travel sites cannot. It shows each room properly, with its own photographs and the full price for the dates chosen. It explains the location as a local would, saying which part of Doncaster you are in and how far it is to Wheatley, Sprotbrough, Armthorpe and Bentley. And it gives the guest a reason to book with you, whether a better rate, breakfast included or a later checkout, inside a booking journey that still looks like your hotel.
What a Hotel Website in Doncaster Needs
A Page for Every Room
Each room type with its own photographs, bed, view, occupancy and what is included, and a check-availability button that opens the booking engine on that room for the dates the guest has chosen.
Booking With the Full Price
Your booking engine embedded so availability is live and the price shown includes every charge the guest must pay, from the first screen to the last, with a direct-booking perk the travel sites do not offer.
Where You Are, Explained
A location page that names your part of Doncaster, gives honest journey times to the nearest station and to areas such as Cantley, Intake and Edenthorpe, and covers parking, so a guest who has never been can picture the stay.
Answers Before the Guest Asks
Check-in times, cancellation terms, children, dogs, parking and an honest accessibility page covering steps, lifts and accessible rooms, stated plainly so nobody has to phone reception to find out.
These are the essentials. Our hotels website design page sets out every page and feature a hotel website needs, and if you are just setting up, the startup hotels website design page covers what to have ready for launch.
Being Found in Doncaster and the Towns Around It
Guests search in layers. First comes the city and the dates, on a travel site or in Google's hotel results, where your Business Profile, photographs and reviews are compared with everyone else's. Then come the narrower searches that only a guest with a purpose makes: somewhere to stay near a venue, a wedding or a workplace, or in particular parts of the city such as Hexthorpe, Bessacarr and Balby. A page that says exactly how close you are to each of the places guests come for gives those searches somewhere to land.
Not every guest is coming for the city itself. People visiting family, working nearby or exploring the area compare a room in the city with one in towns such as Tickhill, Rotherham and Worksop, so say plainly how long those journeys take and what a base in the city offers in the evening. Keep your Google Business Profile complete, with the right category, your own booking link and current photographs, and ask every departing guest for a review, because the reviews beside your name are read before your website is.
Every website we build includes the technical foundations that local search depends on, and our guide to getting a new website found on Google explains what to do after launch. We do not promise rankings, because they also depend on your reviews, your Google Business Profile and the competition in each area.
What the Rules in England Mean for the Website
England has no accommodation licence or certificate of the kind used in Scotland at the time of writing, and the national register it is introducing is aimed at short-term lets, so check whether it reaches you. What every hotel must do is show the full price: UK consumer law requires the headline price to include every mandatory charge, so the booking engine cannot add fees at the last step, and it bans fake reviews. The government has also confirmed plans to let mayors charge a visitor levy, which would have to appear within the price.
Serving breakfast makes you a food business registered with the City of Doncaster Council, and displaying the hygiene rating is voluntary in England, though worth doing. A bar or a welcome drink needs a premises licence from the council under the Licensing Act 2003. The Equality Act 2010 expects reasonable adjustments for disabled guests, which is why an honest accessibility page matters, and any star rating or award should stay on the site only while it is current.
This is a summary for planning a website, not regulatory advice. Rules change, so check the current position with the regulator or with the City of Doncaster Council before you rely on it.
What a Hotel Website Costs in Doncaster
Our prices are published, and they are the same in Doncaster as everywhere else in the UK. A custom-designed website of up to around ten pages starts from £2,400, a website with an admin dashboard from £3,900, and managed cloud hosting from £20 a month if you would like us to run the site for you.
- Startup Website from £2,400
- Website + Admin Dashboard from £3,900
- Managed Cloud Hosting from £20 per month
Payment is a 50% deposit with the balance on completion, and the finished website, its design and its code are yours. The hotels website design prices page explains what those prices buy for a hotel and what moves a quote, and the main website design prices page sets out every package.
What Clients Say
"I have worked with quite a few web developers but digitalpod are one of the very best I have ever used. From ideas to visuals and to final coding. The project just effortlessly flowed."
"From the very beginning of our discussions to the end of the project I found Digital Pod to be not only professional but always friendly and willing to resolve any issues."
"Matthew has been wonderful, he has met every deadline, offered much needed advice and, most importantly, has designed a stunning and effective website for me! I wouldn't use anyone else!"
Hotel Website Design in Doncaster: Questions
How much does a hotel website cost in Doncaster?
The same as it would anywhere in the UK. A custom-designed hotel, B&B or guest house website of up to around ten pages starts from £2,400, with a page for each room type, your booking engine embedded, offers, the local area and your policies. If your team wants to edit rooms, rates and offers, or you sell vouchers online, the website with admin dashboard starts from £3,900. The hotel website design prices page explains what moves the figure.
How will guests looking for a hotel in Doncaster find our website?
Mostly in two steps. They meet you first on a travel site or in Google's hotel results, then search your name to look at your own site, so a complete Google Business Profile with your own booking link matters as much as the pages. After that come the narrower searches, for a stay near a venue or within reach of towns like Retford, Conisbrough and Mexborough, which a location page can answer. The site gives you the foundations rather than a guaranteed position, and search engine optimisation after launch is a separate service.
Can the website take bookings directly instead of through the travel sites?
Yes. We embed your booking engine so guests see live availability, the full price and your direct-booking perk without leaving the site, and bookings reach your system through the channel manager as they do now. A standard embed is within the starting price, and deeper integration, such as live rates on room pages, is quoted on scope. The travel sites will keep bringing new guests. The website's job is to stop you paying commission on the ones who were already looking for you.
We run a small B&B in Doncaster. Is a custom website more than we need?
No. A B&B needs the same things as a hotel on a smaller scale: a home page, a page per room, booking, the local area, your story and a directions and policies page. That fits within the starting price and usually takes three to six weeks from brief to launch, provided the photographs and words are ready. Whatever registration or licence your nation requires goes on the site too, and the startup hotel website design page covers what a new B&B needs for its first night.
Are you a website designer based in Doncaster?
No. DigitalPod is a UK-based design and web development studio that provides its web design services across the UK, and we work with hotels in Doncaster entirely online, over video calls, email and shared documents. You review designs and the test site in your browser and give feedback in writing, so nothing is lost between conversations. Where your website designer is based has no bearing on the quality of the website, and our prices are the same wherever you are.
More answers in our FAQ. For other kinds of business, see website design in Doncaster, and for the full guide to this sector, hotels website design.
More Website Design in Doncaster
We design websites for every kind of business in Doncaster. Choose another sector, or see the city page for the full picture.
Hotel Website Design in Other Cities
We work with hotels across the UK. See the national hotels website design page, browse website design by city, or go to the DigitalPod home page for our portfolio and services.
Talk to Us About Your Hotel Website
Tell us about your hotel in Doncaster, your customers and what the website needs to do, or book a call with our senior software engineer to talk it through. Everything runs online, and we reply personally with a clear, fixed price.