Prestatyn man plans site to help people find North Wales holiday homes

Joe Melson, 25, is aiming to launch findacaravan.com on Thursday, June 1.

There are two main goals in creating the site, he said – “make the customers’ lives easier, and help parks sell their stock a lot more”.

He said: “I’ve been working on holiday parks for nine years this year, and set up my own company doing consultancy in North Wales and across the north west last year.

“That’s done really well, and made me come up with the idea of starting this website to try and help customers find holiday homes. It’s about trying to help the local economy through the tourism industry.

“I’m solely dealing with static caravans, lodges and residential homes; not actual houses or cottages, as such.

“The caravan website will be UK-wide, but I’m going to start it off in my local area, which is North Wales. We’ve got holiday parks here signing up to the website already, which is good.”

Joe also has almost a decade of experience of working in the holiday park industry to draw on, having previously represented the likes of Presthaven and Lyons Holiday Parks.

This was followed by him setting up his own business, Leisure Parks Consultants, last year.

To find out more, email contact@findacaravan.com.

He added: “The way I pitch it is, if you were looking to buy a house, you’d go to Rightmove, Zoopla… if you were buying a car, you’d go to Auto Trader.

“If you were to buy a holiday home in North Wales or across the UK, where would you go? My ambition is to try and grow something like that.

“We want to make the most of the summer, as it’s obviously the busiest time for things like this. It’s been a goal of mine for the last two or three years, but we’ve been planning it for about the last 12 months.

“The goal with the consultancy was always to make the money to put into something like this; just to make customers’ lives easier, and to help parks sell their stock a lot more.”