A vacation rental website, from the drive in to lights out
On Airbnb or Vrbo, your place is a thumbnail, a star rating and a nightly rate, laid out exactly like the listing next to it. When someone wants more before booking for the family, they search the property’s name. What they find is your own website.
Forest tells your rental as one day there. A single take in real-time 3D moves as the page scrolls: a valley at dawn, a path through the trees, a cabin in a clearing, a lake at golden hour, lit windows after dark. Your words sit over it, hour by hour — getting there, where everyone sleeps, what the afternoons are for, what the nights are like.
It ends on a card with your rate and a button to wherever you already take bookings. The site holds no calendar and takes no payments: it sets the scene and sends guests off to book.
What your site shows
Your name at first light
The page opens high above a misty valley. Over it sit the property’s name, your headline and a line with what people look for first: how many it sleeps, where it is, whether they get the whole place.
The drive and the walk in
The camera drops through the canopy onto the path. This is where arrival goes: the final stretch of track, where to park, how the key safe works, what time the place is ready.
The house
A clearing opens on a timber A-frame with a glass gable: the kit’s own cabin, the same for every buyer. Your text does the describing — bedrooms and beds, the kitchen, the wood burner, the bath with a view.
Afternoons outside
Behind the cabin a lake comes into view as the light starts to turn gold. Say what the afternoons are for: the hot tub, the river the children paddle in, the barbecue, the walk that starts at the gate.
After dark
From across the water you see lit windows, their reflection and the stars. Describe the evenings your guests actually have: the long dinner, the fire going, how quiet it gets.
The booking card
Over the night sky, a card: your rate from, per night or per stay, the minimum stay and how many it sleeps. The button opens your listing, your booking page or a WhatsApp chat. Anything left blank simply isn’t shown.
Have this ready
- The property’s name and a short tagline: it sits above your headline and goes into the page title that Google reads.
- A sentence or two on the place: where it is, how many it sleeps, whole house or rooms.
- Four moments from a day there, each with a time, a title and a few lines.
- For the card: your starting rate, what it’s per, the minimum stay and the number of guests.
- Your booking link: the Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com listing, your direct booking page, or a wa.me WhatsApp link.
- Your registration or licence number, if your area requires it on adverts.
- A few lines on who looks after the place, for the footer.
- Email, phone, address, legal name and tax number, for the legal page that comes with the site.
Worth knowing
Show your licence number where it’s required
Some regions require a holiday let’s registration or licence number on every advert, your own website included. Check the rule where you are. If it applies to you, add the number to the lines about who runs the place, which sit in the footer.
Put the house rules before the button
The line under the booking title is yours to write. Use it for what guests should know before they click: minimum nights at weekends, the deposit, dogs or no dogs, check-in time. Better read there than in an awkward message later.
Write for the person booking for everyone
Whoever books a whole house books it for others, and then fields all their questions: is there signal, where do we park, does the kitchen stretch to twelve, what’s nearby for the kids. Answer them in the moments of the day.
Explain the last mile
If satnav sends people the wrong way at the final turn, say so in the first moment: which turning to take, how long the track is, whether to arrive in daylight. It may save you a phone call late on a Friday.
Questions
- Is the house in the 3D scene mine?
- No. The scene belongs to the kit and is the same for everyone who buys Forest: a wooded valley, a timber cabin with a glass gable, a lake. This kit doesn’t swap the building or take photos. Your place comes through in your words, and your photos stay on your listing, if that’s where the button goes.
- Does it handle availability and payments?
- No — it’s a website, not a booking engine. The button points to wherever bookings happen today: your listing, your booking page, or a Stripe payment link if you take a deposit yourself. The calendar, the money and any cancellations stay there.
- Is there a monthly fee?
- Not to Promti: €500 once, and the site is yours with no time limit. Hosting it on Cloudflare’s free plan costs nothing. The only thing you might pay for is a domain, around €10–15 a year, if you want an address of your own.
- What happens when my rates change with the season?
- Open the wizard again in the same browser — your answers are still there — change the rate or the words, and download again. Publishing the new version works like the first time: drag the folder into your Cloudflare project.
- I let rooms, not the whole house. Does it still work?
- Yes. The card says whatever you type: a rate per room per night, guests per room. The four moments can walk through the rooms one at a time, and the button can open the page where people choose one.