Commission eats your booking income
A venue selling £50,000 through marketplaces may pay around £10,000 to £15,000 in commission when rates sit around 20 to 30 per cent. That money could fund marketing, staffing or venue improvements.
Direct booking for axe throwing & social venues
A direct booking website for axe throwing and social venues, built around the booking system you already use. From £2,495, we help you reduce marketplace commission, own customer relationships and turn more local searches into paid bookings.
From £2,495
Direct booking website build
£59 a month
Required Website Care
£169 a month
AI Receptionist
24 months
No upfront payment term
Booking marketplaces can fill your calendar, but they take a large slice of every sale. GetYourGuide and Viator typically charge suppliers around 20 to 30 per cent. On £50,000 of bookings, that can mean roughly £10,000 to £15,000 paid away before your venue covers staffing, rent and equipment.
Your own website gives customers another way to book. It lets you explain the experience properly, show availability, collect payment and build a relationship with the group organiser. You can still use GetYourGuide, Viator or other channels. The aim is to move more demand onto a channel you control.
The problem
A venue selling £50,000 through marketplaces may pay around £10,000 to £15,000 in commission when rates sit around 20 to 30 per cent. That money could fund marketing, staffing or venue improvements.
People find your venue on Google, then land on a thin page with unclear packages or a separate booking link. They cannot see the full experience, understand the rules or feel confident before paying.
Stag groups, hens and corporate organisers need different answers. If every enquiry arrives with missing dates, numbers and package details, your team spends valuable time chasing information before giving a price.
What you get
Every client also takes Website Care at £59 a month. Everything else is modular.
Pricing
For tour operators, attractions, activity providers, accommodation and leisure businesses. Built to reduce how much of your business depends on the big booking marketplaces.
£2,495
A conversion website wrapped around the booking system you already use.
Best for: Small operators already on a booking platform such as Bokun, FareHarbor, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bookeo or Freetobook.
£3,995
Built to shift demand away from the marketplaces and onto your own site.
Best for: Operators with several tours or experiences who want a direct sales channel they own.
Everything in Direct Booking, plus:
From £5,995
For operators with real inventory and operational complexity.
Best for: Multi-location operations, accommodation, packages, ticketing and larger inventories.
Everything in Booking Growth, plus options such as:
Genuinely bespoke platforms move into custom travel and booking development, quoted separately from £10,000.
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
All prices exclude VAT.
Monthly
Website Care is required for every client. Add anything else when you need it, and drop it when you do not.
£59 a month
Hosting, SSL, daily backups, security monitoring, software updates, uptime monitoring, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support.
£169 a month
Answers every call 24/7 in your business name, takes the job details, qualifies the caller and texts you immediately.
A human receptionist costs £24,000 to £28,000 a year. A live answering service runs £200 to £450 a month.
Price on application
Answers visitor questions on your site around the clock, using only what it has been taught about your business, and captures the enquiry before they leave.
Most visitors will not ring and will not fill in a form. They ask one question, get no answer, and leave.
£449 a month
Campaign management, bid and budget optimisation, ad copy testing, negative keyword management, landing page optimisation and a monthly reporting call.
Your ad spend goes direct to Google and is never marked up. Minimum recommended spend is £400 a month.
£249 a month
Two optimised pages or articles a month, local SEO, Google Business Profile posts, citation building, rank tracking and monthly reporting.
£99 a month
Plans, writes and posts your social media to Facebook and Instagram. You approve a month of content in one sitting.
£49 a month
A marketing plan built around your business, broken into weekly tasks, so you always know the next thing to do.
£75 a month
An additional 2 hours a month for changes, new pages and seasonal updates.
Bundles
The same modules, priced lower when taken together.
£199 a month
Saves £29
£595 a month
Saves £82
£795 a month
Saves £141
No Upfront Option
No setup fee. A template site built for your trade, with hosting, care and the AI receptionist included. For businesses who want to start now without the upfront cost.
Start with no upfront costQuote request
Two minutes of questions and we will send back a real number, not a range. Website packages start at £1,295, ecommerce from £2,495, and there is a no upfront option at £199 a month.
The result
Customers can find your venue, understand the activity, check availability and pay through your own website. Marketplaces remain useful, but they no longer need to carry all your demand.
The group organiser books with you, not only with a marketplace. You can answer questions, send useful updates, encourage repeat visits and promote gift vouchers or future events.
Your forms collect dates, group sizes, occasion details and package preferences. Your team can respond with a relevant quote instead of sending several messages to discover the basics.
01
Your website should bring together every way people find and book your venue. Marketplace listings can introduce your experience, while Google searches, social posts, repeat customers and paid adverts send people to a place you own. The site explains your sessions, prices, age rules, waivers, food options and private hire packages before someone reaches your booking screen.
We build around the reservation system already running your lanes, sessions or activities. Customers can see availability, choose a time, pay a deposit or pay in full. Your team keeps using familiar tools. The website handles the selling while you run the venue, brief instructors, reset lanes and look after groups.
For an axe throwing venue, that means clear routes for different types of booking.
Private groups and celebrations
Stag and hen packages
Corporate team events
Walk-in and casual sessions
Gift vouchers and seasonal offers
02
People search for things such as axe throwing near Newcastle, team activities in Sunderland or hen party ideas in Durham. They often want a date, a price and a place to book. We build pages around those real searches, so your venue has a better chance of showing up when people are ready to choose.
We also improve your Google Business Profile, the business listing that appears in Google Search and Maps. It needs the right categories, opening times, services, photos, booking link and location details. We connect it to useful pages on your website, rather than sending every visitor to one generic homepage.
Your website can target the places and occasions that matter to you.
Axe throwing venue website UK searches
Newcastle and North East activity pages
Stag and hen party landing pages
Corporate away day pages
Directions, parking and venue information
More detail
The rest of what axe throwing & social venues ask us, tidied away. Open what you need.
A message saying "How much for a party?" gives your team work without enough information to price it quickly. We create forms that ask the useful questions first. They can capture the preferred date, group size, occasion, age range, package choice, food needs and any important access requirements.
The details arrive in a clear format, so you can reply with the right package instead of starting a long back-and-forth. A corporate organiser may need an invoice and private room. A stag group may need a package, food and a firm start time. A family group may need age guidance and safety information.
Your quote and contact forms can include:
Date and time preferences
Number of guests and group type
Package and food choices
Budget and invoice details
Questions about access or safety
A first-time customer cannot judge your instructors, lanes or atmosphere from the street. Reviews help them decide whether your venue is well organised, welcoming and worth the money. They also help people compare you with other activities when several venues appear in the same search.
We set up a simple follow-up process after each booking. Customers receive a prompt while the experience is still fresh. The message can point happy customers towards Google, while giving unhappy customers a private route to tell you what went wrong. That gives you useful feedback without waiting for a complaint to arrive publicly.
Your website can also show proof in the places where it matters most. We can add customer comments, venue photos, safety information, group images and answers to common objections. A strong page helps an organiser feel confident before asking ten friends to commit to a date.
Calls often arrive when instructors are explaining safety rules, the bar is busy or a group is checking in. Missed calls can mean lost bookings, especially when someone is comparing venues and wants an answer now. Our AI Receptionist answers 24/7 in your business name, so callers are not left wondering whether you are open.
It takes the useful details, such as the preferred date, group size, event type and booking question. It can sort urgency and text the information to you immediately. Your team can then call back with the right answer, rather than trying to remember a number from a missed call.
The AI Receptionist costs £169 a month. Website Care and the receptionist together cost £199 a month, saving £29. It does not replace your team. It makes sure enquiries are captured when your team cannot answer, including evenings and busy weekends.
Some dates need more help than others. January can bring new-year activity searches. Spring and summer can bring stag, hen and group bookings. Quiet weekdays may need a different offer from busy Saturday evenings. Google Ads lets you appear when people are actively searching for an activity and ready to check dates.
Our Google Ads Management costs £449 a month. We manage campaigns, bids, budgets, advert wording, unwanted searches and the pages people land on. Ad spend is paid directly to Google. We never add a mark-up. You receive a monthly reporting call that explains what happened in plain English.
We also track what happens after the click. That can show whether an advert led to a completed booking, a phone call, a quote request or a useful group enquiry. You can then make decisions based on real jobs, not just how many people saw an advert.
A new website needs regular attention if it is going to keep bringing in different types of customer. Our SEO and Content service costs £249 a month. It includes two useful pages or articles each month, local search work, Google Business Profile posts, trusted business listing work, position tracking and monthly reporting.
Content can cover the questions your team answers every week. It might explain what to wear, how waivers work, whether beginners are welcome, what happens during a session or how to plan a stag party. It can also target nearby towns and specific occasions, without filling your site with empty words.
You can add Automated Social Media for £99 a month. We plan, write and post content to Facebook and Instagram. You approve a month at a time. The Intelligent Marketing Coach costs £49 a month and gives you weekly marketing tasks built around your venue, so you always know what to do next.
Direct Booking costs £2,495. It suits a venue that needs a credible booking website around its current system. It includes experience pages, booking routes, local search basics, payment guidance and clear calls to book. Booking Growth costs £3,995 and is the option most operators should take when direct bookings are a serious priority.
Booking Growth gives more room for group packages, location pages, campaign landing pages, review generation and tracking. It is built to shift demand away from marketplaces and onto your own website. Tourism Pro starts from £5,995 for operators with real inventory, several experiences or more complex operational needs. Bespoke platforms are quoted separately from £10,000.
Every client needs Website Care at £59 a month. It includes hosting, security protection, daily backups, software updates, uptime checks, up to 30 minutes of content changes each month and email support. If you want to start without the upfront build cost, the no upfront option is £199 a month over 24 months, with no setup fee. It includes a template site for your trade, hosting, care and the AI receptionist.
The honest comparison
It is a fair question, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a sales pitch.
If you simply need a basic online presence, a low-cost website builder may be enough. Somewhere to point people who already know your name. If that is genuinely all you need, do that and spend the money elsewhere. We would rather tell you that than take a fee for something you will not use.
Our websites are designed for established businesses that want Google traffic to turn into calls, enquiries and customers. Copy, tracking, conversion setup and ongoing management are built in. That is a different product solving a different problem, and it is priced accordingly.
A £199 builder site
Fine for a basic presence. Not built to win work.
A Look North website
Built so search traffic becomes booked jobs.
Who writes the words
A £199 builder site
You do, usually at 11pm, into a blank box.
A Look North website
We do. Copywriting for every page is included, written around the jobs you actually want.
Whether it shows up on Google
A £199 builder site
It will rank for your business name. Not much else.
A Look North website
A page for every service and every town you cover, structured so each one can rank.
What happens to an enquiry
A £199 builder site
A contact form emails you. If you miss it, you miss it.
A Look North website
Quote forms written for your trade, instant SMS and email alerts, and every enquiry stored so none are lost.
When the phone rings and you are on a job
A £199 builder site
It goes to voicemail. Most callers hang up and ring the next business.
A Look North website
Our AI receptionist answers 24/7 in your business name, takes the details and texts you straight away.
Knowing what is working
A £199 builder site
A visitor counter, if that.
A Look North website
Call tracking, conversion tracking and call attribution, so you know which clicks became real jobs.
Getting reviews
A £199 builder site
You remember to ask, sometimes.
A Look North website
Review generation set up so a request goes out after every job, with the results shown on your site.
What happens after launch
A £199 builder site
Nothing. It sits there until you cancel the subscription.
A Look North website
The Marketing Coach gives you a plan broken into weekly jobs, so the site keeps earning its keep.
Who owns it
A £199 builder site
The platform. Stop paying and it disappears.
A Look North website
You do. The code, the domain, the hosting account and the content are yours.
Speed on a phone
A £199 builder site
Template bloat, often slow, which costs you rankings and visitors.
A Look North website
Built mobile first, because that is where almost every local search happens.
When something breaks
A £199 builder site
A help centre article and a support queue.
A Look North website
Website Care at £59 a month: monitoring, backups, updates, and a person who answers.
If the upfront cost is the blocker rather than the quality, we do a no upfront option at £199 a month on a 24 month term. That is not a builder subscription. It is a real site built for your trade, with hosting, Website Care and the AI receptionist included, live in 5 working days. The difference between that and a £199 builder site is the difference between renting a van and renting a parking space.
What the difference buys
Not features. The things that change how much work comes in.
A missed call is a customer ringing your competitor. The AI receptionist picks up 24/7, qualifies the job and texts you. Most trades win back more than the cost of the whole website in the first few months.
One page cannot rank for eight services across twelve towns. We build a page for each, so you show up for the specific job someone is searching for right now.
Not "how much for a bathroom?" but property type, scale, access, timing and photos. You quote accurately, first, without a site visit.
A review request after every job. In a year you have the review count competitors cannot catch up with, and reviews are the last thing a customer checks before calling.
Copywriting for every page is included. No blank boxes, no writing your own service descriptions at 11pm, no page that sounds like everyone else.
Call tracking and conversion tracking show which clicks turned into jobs. You stop guessing which half of the marketing worked.
The Marketing Coach turns a strategy into weekly jobs small enough to actually finish. That is why our sites are still growing a year later.
Code, domain, hosting, content and your Google Business Profile. Nothing switches off if you leave, because nothing was rented to you.
If a basic presence is all you need, a builder is the sensible choice and we will say so. If you want the phone to ring more often, that is what we build. Get a fixed price.
FAQ
Price, timescales and ownership, answered for a axe throwing venue.
Where we work
We build local landing pages for every town you cover. These are the areas we work in most often.
References
The bodies and tools a axe throwing venue deals with, plus where to go next on our site.
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Also built for
Closest to axe throwing & social venues in how they win work. Each gets its own page, quote form and set of searches.
Looking for a different sector? See all sectors we build for, or tell us your trade and we will quote for it.
Next step
Tell us the axe throwing venue work you want more of and the towns you cover. We will send back a real number with a scope attached, not a range.
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