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Rental websites that take direct bookings.

Websites for villas and vacation homes. Designed for the phone your next guest is holding.

Lunazul Villa & Cottage

Two homes above Coral Bay on St. John, on one site. Guests switch between the villa and the cottage, check real availability, price out a week and send a booking request.

  • Live
  • Coral Bay, St. John
  • lunazulstjohn.com
The Lunazul homepage: a pool deck looking out over Coral Bay, with buttons to check availability and request a booking
The Lunazul homepage on a phone
Lunazul's availability calendar for November with booked nights marked

A calendar that can't show a booked week as open. Availability comes straight from your Airbnb and VRBO calendars.

Lunazul's rates section with weekly prices and a stay estimator

Rates you set yourself. Guests price out their own week, and you change the numbers from a dashboard on your phone.

Lunazul's Request to Book form filled in: which home, name, email, phone, guests, check-in and check-out dates, and a note about an anniversary trip

Requests that reach you in seconds. A guest sends dates and a note, and you get an email with everything you need to say yes.

The Flamingo House

Seven suites on a hillside in Cruz Bay. A full redesign with a floor-plan explorer, date search across every suite, and an editor so the owner can change words and photos without calling me.

  • In progress
  • Cruz Bay, St. John
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The Flamingo House homepage: an aerial view of Cruz Bay harbor under the words Come flock with us
A Flamingo House suite page on a phone, with its nightly rate and a check dates button
Carter Long and his wife at a hillside overlook on St. John, the sun setting over the water behind them
With my wife on St. John, where both of these sites live.

Send me your listing link and I'll build a preview of your site with your own photos. It's free, and you see it before deciding anything.

If you like it, we finish it together. Your wording, your rates, your house rules, and your Airbnb and VRBO calendars connected so the site always shows what's really open.

Then I put it on your own domain, host it, and stay on for changes. Your listings stay exactly as they are. The site gives repeat guests and referrals a way to book with you directly, without the platform's service fee on top.

I'm Carter. I build every site myself, so the person you talk to is the person who answers when something needs fixing.

A few things owners ask before we start.

Do I have to leave Airbnb or VRBO?

No. Keep both. Your site reads their calendars, so it always shows what's really open, and guests who already know you get a way to book direct.

Does the site take payment?

Lunazul takes booking requests, and the owners confirm each one and collect the deposit the way they always have. If you'd rather take a deposit online, we can talk about adding it.

Can I change things myself?

Yes. Rates, reviews and house details are edited from an owner dashboard that works on your phone. For anything bigger, send me a note and I'll handle it.

What do you need from me?

Your listing link to start. For the finished site I'll need your photos, your rates and house rules, and a short call.

Will guests find it on Google?

That's built in from the start. Every page gets the titles, descriptions and structured data search engines read, and the pages load fast on a phone, which Google rewards. What it can't do on its own is make up for a site nobody links to, so I'll point you to the few places worth listing it.

What about AI search, like ChatGPT?

More guests now ask an assistant before they ever open Google. Those tools quote sites that state facts clearly: how many it sleeps, where it is, what's nearby, what a week costs. I structure your pages so those answers are easy to find and easy to trust, and the same work helps your regular search ranking.

Is the site accessible?

Yes. Every site I build meets the WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines, the standard US accessibility rules point to. Guests using a screen reader, a keyboard or larger text can check dates and send a request like anyone else.

My place isn't on St. John. Does that matter?

No. The islands are where I started, but if guests book your place by the night or the week, this works the same way.

Want to see yours? Send me the listing.

I read mail morning, afternoon and evening, so you'll hear back from me within a day.

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