Every booking made through a platform — Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO — has a fee built into the rate. Sometimes it’s listed as a service charge. Sometimes it’s rolled in. Either way, a meaningful portion of what you’re paying goes to the platform rather than the stay.
Booking direct with Knightly Stays removes that entirely.
The Price Difference
Direct rates are lower than platform rates on the same dates for the same home. Platforms charge guests a service fee of 12–20% on top of the listed price. We don’t. The rate you see when you book direct is what you pay.
You Reach Real People
When you book direct, you message the people who own and run the properties. Not a chatbot, not a support ticket. A real person who knows the home, knows the area, and answers quickly.
Questions before booking get answered properly. If something comes up during your stay, you reach someone who can deal with it — not someone who has to escalate it through a platform policy process.
Flexibility That Platforms Don’t Allow
The platforms enforce their own rules. Direct bookings mean we can be flexible — on check-in and check-out times where it’s possible, on invoicing for company bookings, on rates for longer stays that don’t fit a standard weekly grid.
Contractors and professionals on extended assignments benefit most here. We invoice companies directly, we work around site schedules, and we don’t apply a holiday-let rulebook to a working stay.
Faster Resolution if Anything Goes Wrong
On a platform, a problem means contacting customer support, waiting for a decision, waiting for the host to be notified. Booking direct means you contact us directly and it gets sorted — usually the same day.
What You Lose by Booking Direct
The platforms do one thing we can’t: show every short-let in the country in one place. If you’re deciding between destinations, they’re useful.
If Cleethorpes is where you’re going — for the coast, for a work project, for a longer stay — booking direct is the better deal on every measure that matters.
Browse our properties and book direct here. No account required. No platform fee. No fuss.