Tidewater Hotel

A seaside hotel’s site, written and shot around its tide table.

tidewaterhotel.co.uk
Tidewater Hotel website homepage
ServicesWebsite, copy, photo direction
Timeline6 weeks
TagsWebsite, Content, Booking
StatusConcept project

This is a concept project written to show our process. It is not a client engagement, and it shows no client results.

The brief

A twelve-room hotel on a tidal harbour, losing direct bookings to travel sites. The brief: make booking direct feel easier and more personal than booking anywhere else.

Our approach

We organised the site around the tide: what to do at low and high water, which rooms face the harbour, and a direct-booking offer that travel sites cannot show.

What we would measure

A higher share of direct bookings over the following season.

Identity

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Tidewater Hotel identity: logo, colours, type and applications

A spaced serif wordmark under a single tide line, sea slate and sand, and a tide table that appears on the site, the room cards and the breakfast menu.

Website

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tidewaterhotel.co.uk
Tidewater Hotel full homepage

Scroll inside the window to see the whole homepage.

Tidewater Hotel homepage on a phone
Tidewater Hotel full page on a phone

Photography: Mousehole harbour low tide by Wittylama, CC BY-SA 4.0; Mousehole Harbour - geograph.org.uk - 2561314 by Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0; St Ives Harbour by Peter Glyn, CC BY-SA 3.0. Photos used on the concept site; see credits.