Lost Shore’s site goes live as resort gears up for launch
The e-commerce website for the new Lost Shore Surf Resort went live yesterday.
Posted
August 16 2024
The site, designed and built by the Union Digital team, now takes bookings for surf lessons, sessions and accommodation. The resort plans to open this October in Edinburgh.
The new resort will be the largest of its kind in Europe.
Lost Shore will be Europe’s largest inland surfing facility and give Scotland’s tourism sector a major boost. The £60 million investment represents one of the most significant new visitor destinations to country has seen for many years.
The wave pool will be three times the size of the Wembley pitch, making it Europe’s largest, and one of the most advanced of its type worldwide. The cutting edge Wavegarden technology delivers up to 1,000 waves per hour, providing the best possible environment for surfers of all abilities to enjoy the experience.
Lost Shore will be ideal for those wishing the experience surfing for the first time.
The resort is set in a sprawling 60-acre country park, with 53 luxury accommodation units, a waterfront bar, café and a restaurant. Located in Ratho, near to Edinburgh Airport, the resort is easily accessible for both local and international visitors.
Lost Shore is the brainchild of founder Andy Hadden, who has been working for the last ten years to make the project a reality. (His passion for surfing started when he was seven years old.)
The website took over 12 months to develop. Consisting of a customer portal and full booking journeys for surf and accommodation, the site involved multiple integrations with the core booking engine from Vintia. Other integrations are for payment systems, CRM, email, recruitment, spa and hospitality applications. Key to the project was careful planning by the agency’s UX team, working closely with designers, developers and the client. This ensured multiple accessible user journeys.
The Union’s team focused on delivering a seamless user experience.
Ian McAteer, the agency’s Digital Director, said: “Over the last few years we’ve been scaling up our technical team to take on bigger challenges. The award-winning Traffic Scotland website was a massive two-year project; the Lost Shore project has stretched us further with its intricate functionality and the granular detail required to plot the logic for the booking journeys. I’m proud of our team in the way they handled the task, and ultimately in the quality of the end product. But the work’s not finished, Lost Shore will adding services and experiences to the resort so we expect to be busy in the next few months.”
Lost Shore are taking surf and accommodation bookings from now up till April next year. What are you waiting for?
