VacayDirect vs hiring a web designer
A designer finishes. A rental site never does.
A good freelancer will build you a beautiful site. Then the project ends, and the site starts ageing.
The short answer
Hiring a web designer or agency gets a vacation rental owner a custom site as a one-off project, typically billed up front, with later changes charged separately. VacayDirect provides a custom site as an ongoing service for a flat monthly fee, including changes, hosting and weekly new content, with no up-front project cost.
When a designer is the right choice
You're building a distinctive hospitality brand, you have the budget and you want someone in the room. A talented designer will take you somewhere a service won't.
What usually happens afterwards
The site launches and looks wonderful. Six months later the rates page is out of date, the new deck isn't in the gallery and the blog has two posts. Nobody did anything wrong; the project simply ended. A rental site is more like a garden than a building.
Questions
What owners ask us
Is the design really custom?
Yes. We build around your photos, your place and any references you give us. We don't sell templates.
What if I already paid a designer for my current site?
Then you have good raw material. We can rebuild from it faithfully and add the booking connection and content engine on top.
Let's get your place its own front door.
A 20-minute call. We'll look at your current site or listing, tell you what we'd build and answer anything. No pitch deck.