Country Cottages Online is one of the UK’s best websites for vacation rental promotion and self-catering advertising. We specialise in holiday home advertising for British properties and can help you promote your cottage and help boost your direct booking marketing.
Established in 2000, we are a trusted family business with a long history in self-catering advertising and direct booking marketing.
With a rural theme, Country Cottages Online is a good fit for farm cottages, countryside retreats, rural barns, and log cabins. Large country houses and mansions are also popular, as are family holidays, pet-friendly cottages, lakeside lodges, luxury lodges, secluded hideaways, nature escapes and secluded hideaways. Although our focus is on the countryside, we do also feature coastal cottages.
* Please note that showing up to date availability and pricing information for each cottage has become increasingly important over recent years, and as a company we are committed to providing an excellent user experience. As such, we are no longer accepting generic ads from cottage complexes. This is because each of our ads has 1 calendar per ad. Cottage complexes wishing to list must list properties individually (you do not need to list each and every one of your properties) but cannot have one generic ad.
Who can list with us? We permit advertisements from independent cottage owners, and independent agencies *. Many of our owners are farmers, business owners and other owners of holiday rentals who want a commission-free listing service.
Yes as part of your subscription, you can use our late availability, mid week breaks and special deals sections when you want to promote your holiday home for free throughout the advertising year.
Visitors to the site contact you direct so you are free to get on with running your business. You can also log in and edit most aspects of your holiday cottage ads at any time.
We regularly run our own email marketing campaigns to our large mailing list of interested guests.
Yes we offer pricing and availability integration with Supercontrol (for those owners who have the right level of account with Supercontrol), and also integrate with Ical feeds. We recommend that holiday home owners and agencies use booking systems as part of their marketing strategy.
Yes we feature all types of UK self-catering holiday accommodation on Country Cottages Online, including lodges and log cabins property marketing.
Owners and agencies listing with us supply their own photos and upload these direct to our websites.
When you join we will help with your ad copy and help to optimise the storytelling for hosts. We write specially designed content about your property highlighting the major selling points for your property to help you maximise bookings. We work with you to create an ad that you are happy with.
We are a property listing site that mainly features UK holiday cottages, but this website does also feature foreign properties. You can list your foreign rental on ruralhomestays.com for just £50 plus VAT.
No, we offer high traffic websites which feature both agency properties and book direct holiday homes but do not offer a property management service directly.
Yes you are welcome to list and sign up for our holiday let marketing services if you are looking for short term rental marketing.
Country Cottages Online is one of the UK’s longest standing holiday rental platforms. We have various areas on our sites to promote holiday cottages, including short breaks, weekend getaways (which are always popular), flexible stays, best value cottages, affordable breaks, direct with owner sections, cottage categories, holiday ideas and more. You can also highlight best price guarantees on your listing.
No, we charge a competitively priced annual subscription fee. There is no commission to pay us for any bookings you get via the sites.
If you email or call us, you can be assured that our offices are UK based.
Country Cottages Online utilises a wide range of methods of digital marketing for cottages including social media advertising, and sections of our website that focus on discount breaks, exclusive offers and last minute holiday homes.
We verify listings to make sure that all properties listed are legitimate. Owners and agencies joining us must pass certain security checks, ask us for details.
Country Cottages Online with our online advertising for owners and agencies, can help you boost your visibility, reach more guests, get more bookings, increase occupancy and your holiday let exposure.
You can read our advertising terms and conditions here
