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Work with Flexiestays

Corporate stays for your team. Your hotel, on our platform.

Two ways to work with Flexiestays across Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole: book serviced apartments for staff on one company account, or list your hotel, guesthouse or apartments on flexiestays.com and let us bring the guests, all year round.

For employers For hotels and owners
A serviced apartment set up as a workspace for a corporate stay in Bournemouth
130serviced apartments of our own
8Flexiestays hotels on the West Cliff
19nights average stay
24/7local team on the phone
Corporate stays

For employers and organisations

When staff are away for weeks, a hotel room stops being a perk. A full apartment with a kitchen, a desk and laundry, behind its own front door, costs less per night and keeps people well.

Corporate housing on flexiestays.com

  • Corporate housing

    Apartments for staff on placement, project teams and visiting executives, from a week to a year. One invoice per company, VAT itemised, one account manager.

    • Company account with monthly invoicing
    • Block bookings across one or several hotels
    • Kitchen, desk and fast wifi in every apartment
    Corporate housing page

  • Contractor accommodation

    Crews and specialists on assignment in Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch. Family rooms and two-bed apartments sleep a team; weekly cleaning and linen are included.

    • Sleeps two to six per apartment
    • Weekly rates that fall the longer the stay
    • Self check-in for early starts and late finishes
    Contractor accommodation page

  • Relocations and long stays

    The gap between a job offer and a lease. Monthly stays from 28 nights with bills included, so a new hire can start work first and find a flat second.

    • From 28 nights, bills and wifi included
    • Pay 25% now and the balance later on direct bookings
    • A local team on the phone 24 hours a day
    Long-term stays page
The invitation

Become a partner organisation

A small number of employers and organisations make Flexiestays their preferred accommodation provider. Partnership costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It means your bookings come first.

No cost, no commitment

  • Preferential rates

    A negotiated corporate rate card, locked in for your organisation.

    Fixed pricing

  • Priority availability

    First call on apartments, including peak season and group bookings.

    You book first

  • Dedicated account manager

    One person on a direct line, handling everything end to end.

    Single contact

  • Consolidated billing

    Monthly invoicing and reporting, built around your finance process.

    One invoice

  • Staff perks included

    Every guest receives Flexie Perks discounts across Bournemouth, at no cost to you.

    Free for your team

  • Trial stay

    Send one colleague to test us. If we do not beat the hotel experience, no hard feelings.

    Try before committing
Why the area works for work

Three towns you can run a project from

Bournemouth is two hours from London Waterloo by train and twenty minutes from its own airport, and small enough that a team can walk from the seafront to the town centre in ten minutes. The Lansdowne district holds the university and most of the office towers; the digital and creative economy is spread through the town centre and Boscombe; the hospitals, the BIC and the Aviation Park at Hurn each bring their own contractors and visiting staff. Poole adds the port, the marine industry and some of the largest employers in Dorset; Christchurch adds the airport's business park and the engineering firms around it.

What that means for a booker: staff sleep by the sea, eat well without a car, and get to the site in a short taxi. Morale on a six-week placement looks very different next to seven miles of beach than next to a ring road.

Who we work with

  • Healthcare and NHS staffingLocums, agency nurses and consultants on rotation near the hospitals.
  • Engineering and constructionProject teams on site for months, housed in whole-team blocks.
  • Finance and professional servicesConsultants, auditors and secondees who need a proper base.
  • Universities and educationVisiting academics, researchers and staff between term dates.
  • Film and TV productionCast and crew housing on flexible schedules.
  • Relocation and recruitmentA soft landing for new hires while they find a permanent home.
  • Corporate travel managementA direct, reliable Bournemouth supplier for travel management companies.
  • Insurance and emergency housingFast, decent temporary accommodation for clients.
How it works

Booking that respects your time

Our own booking platform runs the whole stay, so nothing sits between your team and a confirmed apartment.

  1. 01

    Tell us what you need

    Dates, team size and budget by email, phone or through the site. We reply the same working day.

  2. 02

    We hold the apartments

    Confirmed availability with the right mix of studios, one-bed and two-bed apartments.

  3. 03

    Book and pay your way

    Online checkout, a direct payment link or a monthly invoice, whichever finance prefers.

  4. 04

    Change as things change

    Dates and apartments can be modified through your account or your account manager.

List your hotel or apartments

For hotels and property owners

Flexiestays is a booking platform, not a management company. You keep running the property exactly as you do today, your team, your housekeeping, your check-in, and we bring the guests: direct bookings, corporate and long-stay accounts, and the winter demand a leisure hotel cannot find on its own.

Email partners@flexiestays.com How listing works, in full

What we list

  • Hotels, aparthotels, guesthouses, B&Bs, serviced apartments and holiday lets anywhere in Bournemouth, Christchurch or Poole, with the licences and safety certificates the law requires.
  • Accurate content: room types, photographs, amenities, check-in times and a cancellation policy, kept up to date.
  • Rates in pounds sterling, no higher than the public rates you show on other channels. Your own website, loyalty scheme and email offers are exempt.

  • You run the property

    Your team, your housekeeping, your check-in, your house rules, exactly as today. Guests message you through the Flexiestays chat and you answer them. Our team supports you, but does not operate, clean or staff the property.

  • We bring the guests

    Bookings from flexiestays.com, our direct-booking platform, plus the demand a single property cannot reach on its own: corporate and contractor accounts, relocations, long stays and match-day and midweek trade through the winter.

  • One commission, on completed bookings

    No listing fee, no subscription. Flexiestays collects the guest's payment as merchant of record, deducts a single commission (VAT is charged on the commission only, never on the booking) and pays you the balance by bank transfer within 14 days of check-out. Booking history, payment status and remittances sit in your Owner Dashboard.

  • Plain, non-exclusive terms

    List anywhere else you like. Instant Book or Request-to-Book, your choice of a Flexible, Moderate, Strict or custom cancellation tier, a six-month initial term that then rolls monthly on 30 days' notice. Guest details are shared only to fulfil the booking. Reviews are published and never incentivised.

Connecting your availability

Three ways to connect

  • Through Bakuun

    Bakuun is a B2B travel platform whose connectivity hub links a booking channel to more than 210 channel managers and property systems through one connection. If your property runs on a channel manager such as SiteMinder, Cloudbeds, Guesty, Hostify, Lodgify or SuperControl, Flexiestays connects to it through Bakuun: rates and availability update automatically, and bookings land in your system.

    Most hotels

  • Through Roibos

    Roibos is a B2B hotel distribution marketplace where hotels and distribution partners contract directly, without intermediaries, and the hotel keeps control of rates and inventory in real time. A hotel already on Roibos adds Flexiestays as a distribution partner from its own dashboard.

    Hotels on Roibos

  • Directly, on the Owner Dashboard

    No channel manager? Manage rates, availability and closed dates yourself in the Flexiestays Owner Dashboard, or sync an iCal feed, and block any date sold elsewhere within two hours. Bookings arrive by email and in the dashboard. Suits small hotels, guesthouses and single apartments.

    No channel manager

How to list

Email partners@flexiestays.com with the property name and address, the type of property and its room types, whether you use a channel manager and which one, and when you could go live. The team sends the standard agreement, sets up the connection through Bakuun, Roibos or the Owner Dashboard, and checks the listing with you before it goes live. Winter is when new listings earn their keep, so the sooner a property is connected the better.

Questions employers and owners ask

Tell the team the dates, the headcount and roughly how long the project runs. They come back with availability across the 8 hotels and a rate for the length of stay; bookings are then invoiced to the company, VAT itemised, with one point of contact for changes. The corporate housing page on flexiestays.com has the form, or call the team directly.

Nothing, and it commits you to nothing. Partnership means your bookings come first: a negotiated rate card, priority availability including peak season, a named account manager, consolidated monthly billing and Flexie Perks discounts for every member of staff who stays. You can send one colleague on a trial stay before deciding.

From a week to a year. Stays of 28 nights or more count as long stays and move to monthly pricing with bills included. Extensions are handled through the team rather than by rebooking, so a project that overruns does not mean moving out.

No. Flexiestays is a booking platform and distribution channel, the way Airbnb or Booking.com are. You run the property with your own team, your own housekeeping and your own check-in. Flexiestays markets it, takes the booking, collects the payment and supports you; it is not a party to the stay itself.

You do, through the Flexiestays chat, from the booking confirmation to check-out. Our team supports you and steps in on payment questions, cancellations and platform matters, and investigates any material complaint in good faith with you.

A single commission on completed bookings and nothing else: no listing fee and no subscription. VAT is charged on the commission only, not on the booking. The commission is deducted at source and the balance is paid to your bank account within 14 days of the guest's check-out, with a VAT statement in the Owner Dashboard. If a booking is cancelled and fully refunded, no commission is due.

No exclusivity: list on any other channel you like. The one condition is rate parity with your public channels: the rate on Flexiestays is no higher than the best public rate for the same room, dates and conditions elsewhere. Your own website, loyalty programme, email-only offers and members-only rates are outside that.

Three ways. Through Bakuun if you use a channel manager or PMS (one connection reaches more than 210 systems); through Roibos if you already distribute through that marketplace; or directly in the Flexiestays Owner Dashboard, with an iCal feed if you have one, for properties without a channel manager.

A six-month initial term from the commencement date, then rolling monthly. After the initial term either side can end it on 30 days' written notice; confirmed bookings with dates after the end are honoured.

Email partners@flexiestays.com with the property name and address, the type of property and room types, whether you use a channel manager and which one, and when you could go live. The team sends the standard agreement, sets up the connection and checks the listing with you before it goes live.

From the business desk

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Talk to the team

Employers: tell us the dates, the headcount and how long the project runs, and we come back with availability and a rate the same working day. Hotels and owners: send the property name, the address, the room types and whether you use a channel manager.