Just another holiday cottage portal website?  Hardly!  

Advertise your property at UK Holiday Cottages Online and you'll be amazed at the results.

Launched in 1996 our site is highly ranked at the major search engines and attracts a very high volume of targetted traffic, averaging over 1,500 unique visitors a day. Our 3rd party tracking stats attesting to that fact are available on request.

The primary function of our website is to generate traffic at yours (and thus enquiries and bookings) and we do this by providing a comprehensive package of innovative online services specially designed for holiday cottage owners, viz: 

Display Listing - £69.95 per annum (Example) 
(Includes your Dot-on-the-Map (see below)

If you have your own well designed, comprehensive website, with all the online services your customer now expects (eg availability calendars, online booking etc) then all you need is volume traffic in order to generate bookings - and that's what a Display Listing provides. Linking directly to your site, we accurately monitor the number of clicks on the link and send you an annual report with your renewal invoice so you can assess for yourself just how cost-effective it is.

Dot-on-the-Map. An alternative and effective way for your customers to find you. At our home page (http://www.oas.co.uk/) they can choose to search for their perfect holiday cottage (which may just be a dot on the map) either by browsing all the listings in the area of their choice or using our Active Map. You'll have a "Dot" at your exact Postcode location, (or map co-ordinates) which when clicked, displays a photograph of your property with just those essential details to enable the visitor to decide whether or not yours might meet their requirements, and if so, there's a link to your website. Driving directions to your property from anywhere in the UK are also available from here.

Current News Page - £29.95 per annum (Example)

Linked from your Display Listing, this is a CMS (Content Management System) page where you can input and edit - at any time - information for visitors which does not appear at your Display Listing (or possibly even your own website). You can inform them of special offers, events, availability, or if appropriate, any special Christmas and New Year arrangements, etc. Or perhaps you might simply want to tell them more about your property and all the things they can do during their stay with you. It will turn your Display Listing into a virtual stand alone website!

Subscribe to the programme then advertise as many vacancies as you wish throughout the year up to six weeks ahead - completely free. Add, edit and remove your ads as required from your own Admin Area. It's simple and very effective! There's a link to our Late Availability section from every page on our site - so you can be sure your ads will be seen.

Large Groups ad - £25.00 per annum

We are constantly asked for the names of properties which can accommodate 8 and more persons, so we have introduced a Large Groups section where you can advertise the maximum number of guests your property can accommodate, with a photograph and link to your own website. We clearly indicate that the party may be accommodated in more than one cottage and so may not be able to dine together, and that early booking is essential. Click here to visit the Large Groups page which is proving to be extremely popular with both advertisers and visitors alike.

Please note - you must have a Display Listing with us to advertise at either or both the Late Availability programme and Large Groups section.

Availability Calendars with Online Booking at your own website (Example)

Turn your own, static, "information-only" website into an interactive 24/7 sales tool with an Availability Calendar for each of your cottages with online booking. If you can accept credit cards we'll send you the customer's card details from our secure server for you to process youself. Otherwise we'll arrange for the customer to send a cheque for the required deposit direct to you within 5 days.

You pay just 5% commission on bookings secured through our system (minimum charge £8.50). If you order a Display Listing the calendars are free - and we'll display a "Book Online" banner at your listing linking to your website. You must have a Display Listing with us in order to offer your visitors our online booking system.

Set-up is easy - just copy the html code at your admin area and paste it to the appropriate location at your site to establish a button and link to your cottage's calendar. Or if you can provide us with FTP access details to your webspace, we'll do it for you for a once-only charge of just £25.00. Compare our Availability Calendar with any other!

• Allows you to show prices for full weeks, two weeks, and 2, 3, 4 and 5 night short breaks
• Offers a sophisticated short breaks programme which you can turn on and off competely as required, or you can block specific weeks like Christmas, Easter etc. 
• Allows you to discount late vacancies at any time
• Allows you to discount the second week of a two week booking.
• Automatic update of the calendar when you confirm an online booking.

Our calendar's booking form requires customers to pay a 25% deposit where the booking is made more than 6 weeks before arrival, otherwise payment in full is required. All short breaks (less than 7 days) are payable in full with booking.

You receive an automatic e-mail advising you that an online booking has been made. All bookings are provisional until confirmed by you from your bookings manager at your admin area. Confirming the booking automatically updates your availability calendar.

Comprehensive Web Presence - £149.95  (Includes Display Listing as above)

If you do not have a website orif your present website does not provide all the necessary online services which visitors now expect, we can provide you with a comprehensive web presence with all the bells and whistles, viz:

Display Listing (see above)
County Listing (see below)   
Dot-on-the-Map (see above)
Interactive Website (see below)   
Late Availability Programme (see above)
Availability Calendar for each of your cottages - with secure online booking

A County Listing like this will be seen by the many visitors who choose to search our site for their perfect holiday cottage by region or county. It provides a photoraph of your property with just those essential details to enable the visitor to decide whether or not yours might meet their requirements, and if so, there's a link to your interactive website. Click here to view the Active Map. Shouldn't you be there too?

An Interactive Website like this. You can edit your webpage yourself at any time as circumstances require - even if you are a complete novice with a computer!. Change the text as often as you wish;. make special offers to generate business; advise visitors of special events - it's your most cost effective marketing tool!

Today there are around a billion websites on the Internet, so even if you already have a website, you certainly won't be over-exposed with two! And with ours you can change it yourself whenever you want! We can download the photographs we require from your existing website, or you can e-mail the ones you want included in your new site in jpg format. Or send us photographic prints and we'll scan, size optimise and upload them free of charge.

Without doubt the best way to attract instant bookings is to offer visitors secure online booking. Pay just 10% commission on bookings secured through your interactive website. Our commission is deducted from the deposit we collect from the customer and the balance is remitted to you by cheque or direct transfer 30 days after authorisation of the customer's credit card. Any balance due by the customer is payable direct to you.