2007 - Somewhere2stay
Booking Engine and Destination Guides Go Live

After five months of programming development and website design, we are really pleased to announce that the brand new somewhere2stay website has gone live – both to customers and to agents. The project has seen a lot of hard work from all of those involved, and that really shows in the finished site; have a look for yourself by clicking here.

The website features three sections; ‘Beach Accommodation’, ‘Villa Accommodation’ and ‘City Accommodation’, all of which are complete with full ‘Destination Guides’. We have not recycled assets from the Cosmos site - new copy has been specifically written, new promos created and new images sourced, so as to give s2s a truly separate identity from its sister company and to assist in building its online search optimisation equity.

The s2s website is not just a great holiday accommodation booking application, it’s also a comprehensive research tool. As well as the ‘Destination Guides’ there are full room descriptions, hotel videos and an ‘email a friend’ function. The user can do full and extensive research on the destinations available, giving them the confidence that the holiday accommodation that they are choosing is right for them. The site doesn’t just use somewhere2stay’s own stock of hotels, it also brings in hotelBed’s stock. We have used stunning imagery of the destinations available as well as interactive MSN maps to really bring the website alive and enhance the user experience.

The site was designed so that it can be easily re-skinned, to give s2s agents and white label sites the ability to brand it as their own. The site was programmed by Cosmos’ internal IT department, within the development framework introduced on the Cosmos Holidays project. Having established a strong working relationship with the IT team, we were able to exchange designed web pages and functional code without hindering the development process, resulting in an efficient build.

Our ever expanding travel website portfolio is evidence of the success of our work within the online travel industry. By working with s2s we have taken on even more knowledge of this developing market, further establishing Digital Marmalade as digital experts within this market.

There will be lots of additions made to the s2s website in the coming months... we’ll keep you posted.

Read more in our Somewhere2stay Web Design Case Study