Villa L’Estagne case study · Vertex Business Solutions

A booking site for a Mediterranean villa, built to the property’s standard rather than a template’s.

Client: Kay Holidays, the villa’s owners
Where: Les Parcs de Saint-Tropez, France
What I did: Design, build and the booking system
Live at: kay-holidays.com (opens in a new tab)

2languages, French firstChecked on the live site, 13 October 2026
0cookies set on a visitChecked on the live site, 13 October 2026
0booking platforms between the guest and the ownersFrom the build

01The brief

The villa sits inside Les Parcs de Saint-Tropez, a private gated estate. Its owners let it by the week and wanted guests to come to them directly, not through a rental platform.

The photographs, video and 360° tour are by Virtual Real Estate. The site’s job was to give them room, and to make asking for a week simple in French or English.

02What I built

Room for the photographs

A cream page, a quiet serif and wide frames, so the pictures carry it. The gallery gives each frame its own space as you scroll.

The gallery: “The villa, one frame at a time.” above a grid of interior and pool photographs. — The gallery, one frame at a time.

Step inside first

A guided 360° tour walks through every room at the guest’s own pace, before they ask for a single date.

“Step inside, before you arrive.” above a 360° view of the living room. — The 360° tour, inside the page.

Requests, not instant bookings

Guests ask for their dates and the owners decide. Two parties can ask for the same week; the owners see both and choose, from an admin panel built for them. A visitor can send a request and read nothing back, so no guest ever sees another’s dates or details.

The villa’s home page on a phone: the pool at dusk under the headline.

The gallery on a phone: “The villa, one frame at a time.”

Choosing dates for a stay request on a phone: a month calendar.

On a phone, 390 pixels wide.

The villa from above at dusk, its windows lit, the bay behind it: “The light fades. The house wakes.” — The close of the home page.

03Under the hood

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Overlap allowed, on purpose: Requests for the same week are held side by side as “on request” until the owners choose between them.
Nothing in the middle: No cookies, no analytics and no payment processing: a direct-booking site with no platform between guest and owner.
French first: Every page exists in French and English, and French is the default when the site can’t tell a visitor’s language.

Photography, video & 360° tour: Virtual Real Estate — Brian Saas (virtual-realestate.fr)

Villa L’Estagne