Local vetted trades
Cleaners, hot tub engineers and maintenance people we already work with in the area, half an hour away rather than a half-day drive. Every job is passed through at cost with the receipt, and no mark-up to us.
For rural cottage owners
A walking-break cottage out in the Dales or on the Moors earns well, but it is the most logistics-heavy let there is: remote changeovers, hot tubs, logs and oil, and quiet spells off-season. We take the whole running of it off your hands, with local people on the ground, not a call centre two counties away.
The honest answers
A remote cottage worries owners for good reasons. Here are the four that come up before anything else, answered plainly. Open any one for the full answer.
A local cleaning team that knows your cottage handles every turnaround to a written checklist, with hotel linen and inspected consumables. We plan routes and timings around the drive, build in time for the long single-property changeover a cottage needs, and photo-check every room before the next guests arrive. The same people come back, so they learn the quirks of the place rather than treating it as one more stop on a city round.
The fiddly extras are exactly what a cottage lives or dies on, so we run them as part of the standard service, not as bolt-ons. Hot tubs are tested, dosed and drained to a schedule between guests, with the safety checks logged against each stay. Logs, kindling and heating oil are tracked and topped up before they run low, and ordered with the seasons so a guest is never cold on arrival. Anything bought in for the cottage is passed through at cost with the receipt, and we take no commission on it.
Walking breaks are far less seasonal than a coast cottage, and that is the point. We price nightly to demand and chase the year-round trade a rural cottage can win: short autumn and winter walking breaks, dog-friendly stays, off-peak midweek escapes and the cosy hot-tub-and-fire weekend that fills the quiet months. We will also tell you honestly at the first visit if the location would not earn enough to make a short let worthwhile, rather than sign you up to a quiet year.
Real people answer guests around the clock, so a lost key or a tripped boiler at 2am is our call to take, not yours. Most things are settled over the phone. When someone needs to attend, we send a vetted local trade we already work with, so help is half an hour away rather than a half-day drive. You hear about it with the fix already in hand, and every step is logged against the stay so nothing is just our word for it.
The net on a cottage
The same flat 20% as every home we run, taken after the channel fee and net of cleaning, never on the gross. No monthly fees, no pricing-tool charges, no paid add-ons, and no premium for the extra running about a remote cottage takes. Cleaning, hot tub care, logs, oil and trades are passed through at cost. Setup is real and usually waived.
IllustrativeBased on Airbnb market data for comparable rural cottages, a guide and not a promise. Cleaning, hot tub care, logs and oil are charged at cost and passed through, with no commission to us. Your real number comes from a free look at your own cottage.
On the ground
A rural cottage is run on who you can reach and how quickly. We are a national brand delivered by local teams, not a franchise and not a call centre, so the help is genuinely nearby.
Cleaners, hot tub engineers and maintenance people we already work with in the area, half an hour away rather than a half-day drive. Every job is passed through at cost with the receipt, and no mark-up to us.
Walking breaks, dog-friendly stays and cosy off-peak weekends fill the quiet months, with nightly pricing tuned to demand. We chase the soft midweek too, not just the obvious summer peaks.
Changeover photos, hot tub checks, certificates and any issues are logged against the booking and surfaced to you, not buried. When you ask what happened out there, the answer is on the record.
The Dales is a future area
We are live in Leeds City Centre now, with York and Harrogate opening next, and the Dales and the Moors on our expansion plan. We would rather say that plainly than pretend we have a team on your doorstep today. Register your interest and a real person on the Yorkshire team will come back with a free, honest estimate for your cottage and tell you exactly when we expect to reach you.