Scandinavian Village

The Resort

Scandinavian Village is a holiday resort in Aviemore, in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park: 67 one bedroom apartments and two bedroom villas with terraces and patios, in landscaped grounds a short walk from the shops and restaurants. It’s pet friendly.

It’s a timeshare resort, so the website works for two groups of people: holidaymakers booking a week, and the members who own weeks there.

The Challenge

Holidaymakers want to see the apartments, find a week that’s free and book it. Members want their documents, a way to pay their fees, and the weeks up for exchange or resale. And the office wanted to keep all of it up to date themselves.

• Show which weeks are free and what they cost, without anyone having to ring the office
• Take the booking and the payment online
• Every kind of accommodation shown room by room
• A members’ area for documents, fees and exchanges
• An admin so the office can change any page, the offers and the availability in house
• Something for guests planning their stay: what to do in Aviemore and the Cairngorms

The Solution

I designed and built the site from scratch, in the navy of the Scandinavian Village logo on a warm stone background with Moulin Light for the type, and wrote the booking system and the admin behind it.

• A homepage that opens on photographs of the resort, one of them from the air, with a panel of special offers and updates that the office writes themselves
• A booking calendar showing every week, Saturday to Saturday, with which apartments and villas are free and the price of each
• Booking from the calendar: pick the week, choose how many weeks, say how many adults and children, add your details and a discount code if you have one, agree the terms and pay by card through Stripe
• The price is worked out again on the server before the payment is taken, and a confirmation goes by email to the guest and to reception
• On a phone the calendar turns into a list of weeks, each showing what’s free and the price
• Pages for the apartments, the villas and Apartments 66 and 67, each one described room by room with photographs
• A members’ area with the owners’ documents, AGM minutes and accounts, and card payment for fees, electricity and exchange prepayments
• Weeks offered for internal exchange and resale listed on the site
• A resort map, guest information, and an Out & About guide to the walking, wildlife, museums, distilleries, golf and other things to do nearby
• The admin: click any text or photograph on the live page to change it, and it saves as you go
• Also in the admin: special offers, gallery videos, documents and menu links, the availability and prices behind the booking calendar, and the exchange list
• Visitor statistics built in, which only count a visit if the visitor agrees to it and never store a full IP address
• Structured data that tells Google the resort is a place to stay, with its address and location

The outcome

Someone planning a week in Aviemore can see what’s free, what it costs and what the villa is like inside, then book and pay there and then, at any time of day. The office changes the pages, the offers and the availability themselves, without waiting on me.

The site went live in July 2026.

Screens from the site