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Forty-five pages, six room types with their own pages, and a booking engine that answers the question a hotel actually gets asked: is there a room free on every night between these two dates?
$1,780$890one time · live in ~10 business days
Includes your domain for a year, a year of hosting at MaiaHost, SSL, and every page rewritten around your business.
Demonstration site. The Woodside Inn, LLC is a fictional business invented for this demo — every phone number on it is literally 000-000-0000. The website itself is entirely real and built exactly as yours would be.
Why this design works for a hotel and b&b
Almost every small hotel website has the same two problems. The room pages are thin — a photograph, a sentence and a price — so a guest choosing between them cannot, and books the one with the best photograph rather than the one that suits them. And the booking button hands the guest, the commission and the guest list to a third-party platform.
This design fixes both. Every room type gets a real page: the bed configuration, the square footage, which floor, which way it faces, what is included and — the part that actually converts — what the room does not have. A guest who reads that the attic room is two flights up under a sloping ceiling and books it anyway does not arrive disappointed.
The booking engine is the part worth looking at closely, because a hotel asks a harder question than a restaurant or a clinic. A clinic books a slot. A hotel books a RANGE OF NIGHTS, and a room type is only available if one of them is free on every single night between arrival and departure — four nights out of five is not four fifths of a yes, it is a no. This engine checks every night, prices each night on its own so a stay that crosses a seasonal rate change is priced correctly, and when it has to refuse it says which of three things went wrong.
A room type is available only when one of them is free on every night between arrival and departure. Four nights out of five is a no, and the page says which night failed rather than a bare apology. The check-out date is not a night and is never charged as one.
“No availability”, “closed to arrivals” and “minimum stay not met” are different sentences that send a guest in different directions. Collapsing them into one “sorry, nothing” is the most common lie on a hotel booking page, and this one refuses to tell it.
Three flat numbers, no percentages and no dynamic pricing: the room's rate, a fixed weekend uplift, and a seasonal adjustment. A stay that crosses a season is priced night by night and both sides are shown.
No lift, a sloping ceiling at the eaves, a front room on a bus route. Every room page carries that list, because a guest who books knowing it comes back and a guest who finds out at nine at night does not.
The booking engine runs on your own hosting. No per-booking fee, no third party owning your guest list, and no listing page competing with you for your own name.
Screenshots from the live site
These are screenshots of the real website, taken from the live demo. Nothing here is a mockup — open it yourself and every one of these pages loads.
Mobile first, not mobile afterthought
Local service searches are overwhelmingly done on phones, so the phone layout is the one we design first and test hardest. Text stays readable without zooming, the phone number stays reachable with a thumb, and nothing needs a horizontal scroll.
Every page, listed
45 indexable pages, each with its own title, description, structured data and a place in the sitemap. That is 45 chances to appear in a search instead of one.
Included — not an add-on
PHP and MySQL, written from scratch — no plugin, no monthly SaaS fee, no per-booking commission, no third party owning your guest list. It runs on the same hosting as the website.
The software runs on your own hosting and belongs to you. There is no monthly licence, no per-booking commission and no third party holding your customer list — which over a few years is usually worth more than the price of the website.
What $890 covers
You get the same structure and design system with your business in it — your name, logo, colours, photographs, services, prices and locations, and every page rewritten for you. Two businesses starting from this design do not end up looking like each other.
Pages you do not need come out. Pages you need that are not there can be added at $90 each. The local SEO — titles, descriptions, structured data and the copy itself — is retargeted from Woodside to wherever you actually work.
Your domain name
First year included, registered in your name
One year of MaiaHost hosting
Fast EU LiteSpeed hosting, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring
SSL certificate
HTTPS from the first minute, auto-renewing
Your branding
Your business name, logo, colours and typography
Your content
Every page rewritten around your business, services and prices
Your photographs
Your images placed and optimized — or we keep the demo imagery
Local SEO retargeted
Titles, descriptions, schema and copy aimed at your city
Working contact form
Spam-protected, delivering to your inbox
Google Search Console
Verified and your sitemap submitted
One revision round
Tell us what to change after the first build — included
30 days of free fixes
Post-launch corrections and small tweaks on us
You own everything
Files, design, content and domain — move host any time
Who this suits
Not quite your trade? Designs adapt more easily than people expect — the structure matters far more than the industry it was written for. Tell us what you do and we will say honestly whether this one fits.
Questions
For direct bookings, yes — it holds real per-night inventory, prices a stay night by night, takes the booking, emails the guest and gives your desk an arrivals board and a month calendar. What it does not do is list you on that platform's marketplace or sync with other channels. Most small properties run this for direct bookings alongside one platform, and stop paying commission on the guests who searched for them by name.
Room types are data, not code. Quantities, rates, minimum stays and occupancy are all screens in the admin, and adding a type is a row. The demo has six because the building it describes has six; yours has whatever yours has.
The demo uses flat adjustments — a weekend uplift and seasonal date ranges — because they can be explained at a front desk and checked by a guest. If you want per-date rates instead, that is the same table with a row per night. What we will not build is opaque dynamic pricing, because the whole argument of this design is that the guest can do the arithmetic.
A database transaction that locks the nights it is deciding about and re-checks them before committing — not a unique index, because “a room of this type is free on every night of this range” cannot be expressed as one. We tested it by firing four simultaneous bookings at the one suite in the demo: exactly one succeeded and three were told honestly that it had gone.
Yes. A manager sets quantities, rates, seasons, minimum stays and blackout dates and sees every booking and the guest list; the front desk sees today's arrivals and departures, who is in the building, and a month calendar of rooms left per type per night, and can close a room out for maintenance. The split is enforced by the code rather than by hiding links.
Yes. The header loop is generated for your property the same way the photographs are, and it sits behind a still poster so it never costs you anything in page speed — the poster is what the browser measures, and the loop starts after it.
More general questions are answered on the sample websites page.
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