Let Your Holiday Home With Anchor Bay Holidays
As a modern, dynamic and fast-growing agency for the Yorkshire Coast (and beyond), your holiday home is our priority and it’s personal! We believe our award-winning personal service from a small, hard-working team is a far better option than the anonymity and bureaucracy of a large agency.
We get it. We have had holiday homes of our own for over a decade! We know what works and what does not. We know what’s missing. And we know the local area inside out.
What Our Owners Say
Why Anchor Bay Holidays?
Whether your aim is to maximise income or just to cover some costs, we’ll use all our experience to help. Our unique offer has personalised service and marketing at its heart – designed to Anchor you the most guests!
We know that the key to long-term success is to ensure the total satisfaction of guests. We are proud to have won so many national and local awards recognising our exceptional customer service!
We use state-of-the-art marketing techniques over many web platforms and social media to get your messages across and keep the guests coming.
We are delighted to extend our service for other properties on The Yorkshire Coast and are delighted to continually invest and enhance our package on The Bay Filey as well as in other locations and always at the lowest commission available!
Anchor Bay Holidays Fees
We have two simple low cost pricing models for marketing (and looking after) your property:
Anchor Bay
10% + VAT + fees*
- SuperControl owner login
- Paid adverts
- Website listing and channels
- Your compliance login
- Departure check for all bookings
- Digital property guide for guests
- Tassimo coffee machine
- Booking of cleaners
- 6 monthly check
- 24/7 helpline for guests
- Monthly property check (The Bay Filey)
- Project management of maintenance**
Anchor Bay PLUS***
12% + VAT + fees*
All features from The Anchor Bay Plan, PLUS:
- Payment of cleaners / trades
- Booking and payment of certificates (eg. Gas) and maintenance queries
- Free Project management of maintenance
*Fees that are charged on top of the commission include card handling fees, SMS fees and pricing software fees.
**£35/job admin fee.
***The Anchor Bay PLUS Plan is subject to availability and within a suitable radius of YO14
What’s Included in Our Service?
As the property owner you are expected to provide and maintain a high quality holiday property and be responsible for upkeep and maintenance – unlike large agents, we personally check the property every 6 months for your peace of mind.
With Anchor Bay Holidays, you get the following:
Owner Benefits
- Full SuperControl PMS (property management software) – allowing you to keep track of bookings and put your owner bookings on (auto booking of cleaning included)
- Full management of owner / guest communications including welcome emails and SMS
Software
- Full SuperControl PMS (property management software) – allowing you to keep track of bookings and put your owner bookings on (auto booking of cleaning included)
- Full management of owner / guest communications including welcome emails and SMS
- Owner account with “Property Care” and “Your Compliance”
- Electronic guide book for your property (powered by touchstay) – view example
Added Value Incentives
- Yhangry – private chef partnership available for your property
- Love to Visit – activities and attractions for you and your guests at a discounted rates
- Free Membership of “ABH Buying Club” – Saving you money including at Screwfix
- FREE Tassimo coffee machine (that we provide) allowing you and your guests to bring your own pods / discs which are available from most supermarkets and choose from Costa, Kenco, Cadbury and other favourite brand drinks!
Marketing Your Holiday Home
We get results. We get these results by investing in, advertising and enhancing the guest journey at every stage. We provide for you a full marketing packing including:
- Google ads, Facebook ads and organic advertisements
- Listing on our website:
– One property card per property with map
– Beautiful Website
– Showcasing the Yorkshire coast
– Thousands of visitors per day
– High ranking on google / Large SEO presence
- Advertising on your behalf across many systems including paid google & Facebook as well as organic advertising
- Your property listed on multiple portals including AirbnbVRBO, Booking.com, Google Vacation Rentals and Discover Yorkshire Coast
Compliance
In the ever changing legislative background, owning a holiday home is complicated and we make it simple!
We know what you need to do to stay compliant. We give your free software to ensure you comply with any future registration scheme.
Included in your commission is:
Guest QR code allowing guests to download your certificates making it easy for you to prove to guests your compliance
Full Access to “Your Compliance App” – allowing you to safely store your certificates (gas, insurance etc) ensuring you meet current requirements and registration scheme requirements in the future
Your property checked at every checkout (by your cleaner) allowing you to see, record and reference the check (ensuring your compliance with the new fire regulations
Monthly check (The Bay Filey) with free logged check and consumables included
Secure registration for the HMRC DAC7 data – ensuring you are compliant with new legislation from January 2025.
6 monthly in-person check by our local team of your property. This ensures that your property remains compliant with any improvements that are needed.
