About Bedposts

The BedPosts website serves two main purposes:

  1. A place where the traveller can find good quality affordable serviced accommodation around UK offered by independent operators
  2. It is the home of the BedPosts community where these independent operators meet to discuss matters of mutual interest and work together to raise standards.

The free-to-join community now has a Business Club (£50 p.a.) with elected officials and a proactive agenda to represent members' interests.

Thinking of joining? (click here) Here are some of the reasons to belong:

Advertise your accommodation

Advertise your business; display your availability - free

Advertise your business for free on all pages within a 10 mile radius of your location. There are approximately 1500 city and town pages. Your advertisement is supplemented with your own brochure page with the possibility of displaying availability and customer reviews and taking bookings. Example: a dozen members advertise on the Chipping Camden page.

Co-operate with your colleagues in your locality - free

Form your own local group on one or more of BedPosts 1500 city/town accommodation pages: use it as a platform for sharing surplus demand for beds with one another and promoting your locality and its history, visitor attractions, entertainments, night life, pubs & restaurants, shops, events, etc. Example go here then click about Marlow tab.
Discounts for accommodation providers

Discounts - available to free members

BedPosts has arrangements with leading suppliers to get discounts on their products. As the BedPosts membership grows we shall increase in purchasing and negotiating power. So will the range of suppliers, products and levels of discount increase too.
Forum for bed & breakfast providers

Community - free

At its heart BedPosts has a thriving community of more than 1000 members that shares knowledge, views and help with one another. This sharing is through state-of-the-art software including forums, chat, messengers, content-managed pages, photo galleries and databases. Only accessible by members. All free! So successful is this community that it has now formed a Business Club offering advanced marketing services and assistance to members.

Learn at not-for-profit events

The community software is just part of the learning and sharing experience. Each year in January or February BedPosts holds an annual conference combined with fun: 2012 in Oxford; 2013 in Stratford-upon-Avon; and 2014 is in York on 4th Feb.

Website and internet marketing services

The BedPosts website is financed by a commercial sponsor, Internet Results Ltd. The company offers inexpensive solutions for website design, search engine optimisation and Internet marketing. Details of the products offered can be found under the services link.

Fun

It's not all serious! BedPosts has its humorists. Enjoy the jokes and the banter!
Not all the fun is on the Internet. Once a year we get together for food, drink and tourist activities.

Badge for free advertisers

Display the BedPosts badge with pride on your website. Although the badge does not promise any level of quality it does indicate to potential visitors that you are interested in, and proud of, what you offer for a living.

Business Club - £50 p.a.

Upgrade to the Business Club and increase your bookings through customer reviews moderated by the Club. Feed the reviews onto your own website. Display the club class badge. Lots more benefits. £50 annual fee applies.

Due to the size of its membership BedPosts is:

  • able to negotiate discounts from suppliers to the accommodation industry
  • able to refer guests to colleagues both locally and across the whole of the UK
  • able to share with colleagues new affairs of interest
  • able to call on a collective wealth of experience and offer advice, especially to members who are new to the industry

The BedPosts website is financed by a commercial sponsor, Internet Results Ltd. The company receives income to finance the design, maintenance and hosting of the website through affiliate and other advertising on the website and members' availing themselves of the inexpensive internet marketing services offered by the company.