Adventure gardens & events · Sunshine Coast, QLD · 2026

Fairhill. A booking engine that doesn’t feel like one.

01 — Context

The brief

Fairhill is a working adventure-garden venue in Ninderry on the Sunshine Coast — rope swings in the trees, a sensory-play creek, a cafe, seasonal events that run year-round. The kind of place that lives or dies by weekend bookings.

When Angela came to us, the existing site was a brochure. Lovely photos, no engine underneath. Ticket sales were fragmented across third-party platforms; staff were copy-pasting bookings into spreadsheets; the seasonal events calendar lived in someone’s head.

The brief was simple in description, deep in scope: a single site that handles content, bookings, the cafe, recruitment and reviews — and reads like Fairhill, not like a SaaS template.

02 — Approach

Our approach

We started with the events calendar, not the homepage. Easter, Halloween, Mothers’ Day weekend, Father’s Day — each one a different beast with different ticket types, capacity rules, weather contingencies. Get that right and the rest of the site falls into place around it.

Behind the scenes we built a content engine the Fairhill team can actually run — pages, events, blog posts and recruitment listings all edited from one admin dashboard, no developer-in-the-loop required. SimpleTix handles the ticket transactions; we wired the rest.

On the front end we leant into Fairhill’s natural voice: wistful, sensory, place-anchored. No corporate stock photography, no cookie-cutter "book now" pressure. The booking flow is there when the visitor wants it — and invisible until they do.

03 — Outcome

The outcome

Launched in time for the {{ peak season }} push, Fairhill v2 is now the central nervous system of the business. Bookings, content updates, recruitment applications and reviews all flow through one place.

Site performance held to Lighthouse-100 targets across the key landing pages — critical for the paid-social spend that drives weekend traffic.

Angela and the team can spin up a new seasonal event end-to-end in {{ time-to-publish }} — what used to take a week of back-and-forth now ships in an afternoon.

{{ bookings up X% }}: Year-on-year ticket sales
100: Lighthouse target on key pages
{{ N }}: Seasonal events run through the engine

04 — Tech stack