Something you'd like to see added to holiday websites?

Omg yes, this drives me nuts! It’s such an obvious thing to want to search for but no one has it as an option.

Fair point, that's good to know. Thank you.
I wish more of them did.

You said no-one does it. And I'm telling you BA does. Whether you then choose not to use it is up to you, but the features you desire exist!

Go to ba.com, select flight+hotel then "create custom trip".
You can select your flights, add a hotel for part of your stay eg to check in on Saturday rather than Friday and choose "beachfront" or the areas eg Jumeirah, The Palm.

You create a trip as if it's separate but you'll get package prices, so it will work out cheaper than booking separately, but only BA / Qatar flights.

We always book villas and I won’t bother using websites that don’t have a filter for car optional/not required. Both DH and I regard driving as a massive ball-achy chore and we will not do it on holiday, so we have to be in walking distances of restaurants, bars, a beach, and at least a mini-mart.

A holiday company that deals in school holiday times only. So often it says "summer offers from £..." but when you look, it's June and September, or it will say "May" but if course, when you click and look, it's not the half-term week, or the price in that week is actually double if not triple. It do time consuming and time wasting sorting through it all.

Just school holidays please.

The issue is that most of them do a subset of these.
I don't often use BA holidays because I tend to find cheaper prices at Destination2, for example. But Destination2 does not allow a hotel for only part stay so I almost always use them for the hotel booking only and book flights separately, which is annoying. It's particularly relevant for my requirements because we go to the Middle East a lot and always fly overnight Friday night and overnight Saturday on the way back. So I only need 7 nights in the hotel but the package holidays always include 8 nights hotel. Not all website include requirements like "beach" either. So you end up wading through hotels in downtown Dubai or Deira for example, when I'm going on a sun holiday and the main requirements is to be on the beach.

Details of public transport / taxi costs to popular areas from accommodation - not everyone drives or wants to drive on holiday.

Ease of manoeuvring a bicycle from outside the hotel into the room without removing the wheels. We've had one apartment in a supposedly sport-focused hotel where the only way we could get a bike into the room was to lift it over the balcony. We'd have been in a pickle if we hadn't been on the ground floor. (Yes, I accept that this is very niche and IABU.)

Length of the swimming pool that's usable for swimming.

Option of clicking on a video of the dining room at peak time, with sound.

I think they should specify up front whether or not taxis can drive up to the hotel. I got caught out dragging luggage along cobblestones for ages because the hotel was in a car free zone of the city

Floor plan for every Airbnb and similar. I don't want to get somewhere to find you have to walk through a bedroom to get to the only bathroom or some other weird thing they haven't mentioned.

Lower prices…

I won't book anywhere that doesn't show the precise location as I want it to be walking distance to the beach, restaurants, supermarket etc but I just use Google maps to work this out.

I also want a decent balcony or terrace as this is where we spend all our time when in the accommodation.

British Airways Holidays does all of that..
but only if you can fly from London.

Option for hotel only and not both flight and hotel.
option for a hotel for “part of my stay”
additional filters such as “beach”
some websites do some of the above, very few do all.

Actually on booking.com I got around it by searching "palma airport" or "Marrakech airport" and then it sorts them distance first with the distance to each airport in km.

Yes to kids club hours and yes to menus! On booking.com I'm sure you can filter distance to airport or city centre.

I think it was jet2 that you used to be able to filter by bedrooms but I can’t see that option anymore. So annoying. Why does every holiday provider think families want to cram into one room with a sofa bed?

As pp have said I want to search for bedrooms, layout of beds, room types such as interconnecting or 2 beds, plus floor plan, plus know if pool is heated or not with actual dates (not just ‘seasonal’ - what date of what month does this mean?)

Also if it’s an AI or half board, it would be great to see sample menus. I know not everyone would need this, but my dc are autistic and beige eaters, so I’m not taking the chance of paying loads and being locked in to 7 dinners comprising of things they won’t eat.

Also if there’s a kids club - how do I book? What times do they run? Got stung one year when I’d booked a specific place as it had a club (lone parent desperate for a few hours snoozing by the pool) but it turned out the club only ran for 1.5 hours in the afternoon, right over when my kids would want lunch…but lunch wasn’t provided and you couldn’t send food. Argh!

It's a bit niche but I won't book any cottage where I can't see the garden furniture. We like to sit out and read for ages so I don't want to be perched on some iron bistro chair.

Heated pools or not, for Easter and autumn half-term holidays

Floor plan of the room.

So I can understand how it would work for a cot or sharing with kids.

I have spent hours, days of my life searching for the optimum hotel room, usually based on one photo and snippets from reviews.

Incredibly annoying.

Not in my experience!

Proper information about accessibility of the room, resort and the wider area would be great.