Moving off Wix and other builders
Builders are cheap, but every tweak and setting takes your time. I’ll move your site across and look after it, with bookings included, for less than a builder and booking system together.
Fair’s fair
For a quick, simple page, a builder can be the right call. The trouble starts when your website has to keep up with a real business, and you’re the one doing the keeping up.
Move one section and something else shifts, often on the mobile version you didn’t look at.
Editors, layers, apps and settings. It’s hours of tutorials before you feel at home.
Page titles, descriptions, image text and redirects live in different panels, and it’s easy to miss one.
Swapping a line of text is fine. Anything more, like a new section or a seasonal offer, eats an evening.
Quick design changes
New photos for the season, a section for your hot tub, a better layout for your rates. On a builder, each one means finding the setting, fiddling with it and checking it hasn’t broken the phone version.
With me, you send over what you’d like and I make the change. Basic updates are included in every plan.
On a builder
With me
Consistent and uniform
Builders make it easy to add things and hard to keep them matching. A new page here, a different button there, and over a couple of years the fonts, spacing and colours drift apart. Guests notice, even if they can’t say why.
I design your site as one system. Every page, button and heading follows the same rules, so it stays tidy however much we add.
Strong SEO foundations
Builders do have SEO settings. They’re just spread across panels and pop-ups, written for people who already know what they mean. Most owners fill in a few and hope for the best.
I build the foundations into every page from day one, and when you move across, I make sure the Google rankings your old site earned come with you.
A booking system included
On a builder, taking bookings usually means paying for a booking system as well, like Bookalet or Lodgify, and getting the two to work together.
Every plan comes with my booking system. It pulls in your calendars from Airbnb, Booking.com and Canopy & Stars, so you can see every booking in one place. You can block off dates and set your prices by the night, with weekends and busy weeks priced higher.
A local partner who knows glamping
A builder subscription goes to a huge company that makes websites for everyone, from dentists to dog groomers. Your money with me goes to a one-person business in Herefordshire.
My family owns a shepherd’s hut, so I know about changeovers, midweek gaps and guests who ask about the hot tub before anything else. You talk to me, the same person who builds and looks after your site.
The cost, side by side
Compared with Wix’s Core plan, the first plan up from the cheapest and the one you need to take payments, plus Bookalet Pro, a popular UK booking system that syncs with Airbnb.
| What you get | Wix Core | Glamping Web Design |
|---|---|---|
| Website | £16 a month | Included |
| Booking system | About £19 a month | Included |
| Monthly total | About £35 a month | £19 a month |
| Who designs the site | You, from a template | Me, around your place |
| Who writes the words | You | Me, with you |
| Design changes | You, in the editor | Send me a message |
| SEO set-up | You, across several panels | Built in from the start |
| Who you talk to | A help centre | Me, directly |
£16 a month less
That’s the saving, and you get your evenings back. Design, words, SEO, bookings and updates are all included.
See the plansWix UK Core plan, billed yearly, and Bookalet Pro at £189 a year plus VAT, about £19 a month, as of October 2026. Lodgify’s Starter plan, its cheapest with a booking widget, is a similar £20 a month billed yearly. Prices vary by region and billing period. The £19 plan is per property, with a one-year minimum term.
You keep your domain, your best content and your place on Google. Your old site stays up until the new one is ready.
I go through your current site, what’s working, which pages Google likes and what guests ask about most.
A design built around your place, with your best words kept and the rest rewritten. You see a preview first.
Every old page address points to its new page, so the rankings and links you’ve built come with you.
Your domain moves across, the new site goes live, and only then do you cancel your builder plan.
The same goes for the other builders and booking-platform websites. I’ve written honest reviews of each if you’d like to weigh it up first.
Beautiful templates, but the same DIY editing and limited booking options for nightly stays.
Squarespace for holiday letsA booking system with a website bolted on. Easy to start, hard to make look like your place.
Lodgify alternativesGood marketing know-how, but sites are built from ready-made templates, so yours can end up looking like the next one.
Boostly websites reviewedPowerful and flexible, but plugins, updates and security become another job on your list.
WordPress booking pluginsPer property, per month, with basic updates included. Or pay once upfront and own the code.
£19/ month
per property
A proper, custom website for your place, without another DIY job on your list.
Let’s talk about this planWhat’s included
£39/ month
per property
A more bespoke build, with the booking system you already use connected if you’d rather keep it.
Let’s talk about this planWhat’s included
£59/ month
per property
A website with booking integration, plus regular content and care to help people find you.
Let’s talk about this planWhat’s included
Not if the move is done carefully. I list every page on your current site and redirect each old address to the matching new page, keeping titles and descriptions that already work. Rankings can wobble for a few weeks while Google catches up, then usually settle, and a faster, better-built site often does better over time.
Yes. Your domain is yours. If it was registered through Wix, it can be transferred out or pointed at the new site. I’ll walk you through it and time it so there’s no gap.
Not once you add a booking system. Wix’s Core plan, the first that can take payments, is £16 a month in the UK, billed yearly, and a booking system like Bookalet Pro adds about £19 more. My plans start at £19 a month with a booking system included, along with the design, the words, SEO foundations and ongoing updates.
It uses the calendar links that Airbnb, Booking.com and Canopy & Stars give you. Bookings from each one show up in a single calendar, and nights booked on your own site are blocked on the others. Those sites check calendar links on their own schedule, often every few hours rather than instantly, so I’ll help you set it up to keep the risk of a double booking low.
Yes, if you’d rather. Every plan comes with my booking system, but the £39 and £59 plans can connect the one you already use instead, such as Lodgify, Bookalet or Freetobook. Tell me which it is and I’ll check what’s possible before we start.
Keep it running until the new site is live and your domain has moved. Then you can cancel. Check your Wix renewal date early, as yearly plans renew automatically.
You don’t need to. Basic updates are included in every plan, so you send me new photos, prices or details and I make the changes, keeping everything consistent across the site.