Your hotel website is losing bookings to OTAs because it can't close the deal itself.
We build custom websites for hotels, resorts, and hospitality brands — high-converting booking flows, availability engines, and brand experiences that turn direct traffic into direct revenue. Fixed scope, fixed price.
You're paying Booking.com and Expedia 15–25% commission on rooms your guests would have booked direct if your site had a decent booking flow and a reason to trust it.
Every booking a guest places through Booking.com, Expedia, or Airbnb is money that went somewhere other than your property. At 18% average commission and 60% OTA mix, a 100-room property doing $3M in annual revenue is handing $324k a year to distribution partners. And a big part of why guests default to OTAs isn't loyalty — it's that your direct website is slower, harder to use, and less visually compelling than the aggregator listing of your own property.
The booking engine widget you bolted on from Siteminder or Cloudbeds works. It's also dated, it's slow to load, and it dumps guests into an iframe that looks nothing like your brand the moment they click "Check Availability." Trust breaks. They bounce back to Booking.com. Commission paid.
On top of that: your website probably hasn't been touched since 2021, it renders terribly on a phone (where 70% of hospitality searches happen), and the room photography lives in a slideshow plugin that adds 3 seconds to load time. Meanwhile properties half your size with better websites are scooping direct bookings because the experience feels premium enough to hand over a credit card.
This isn't an OTA negotiation problem. It's a website problem.
A hotel website that loads fast, looks better than your OTA listing, and closes bookings at checkout — without a third-party booking engine eating your margin.
Conversion-tuned direct booking flows
Date pickers, room availability checks, room-type comparisons, upsells, and checkout — built into your site's design system, not an iframe from a third-party engine.
Room and experience showcase that loads fast
Full-bleed photography, virtual tour integration, amenity pages, and package builders that work in under 2 seconds on mobile.
Channel manager integration
We wire into your CMS (Cloudbeds, Siteminder, Opera, Little Hotelier) for real-time availability and rate sync so you're not managing two calendars.
Local SEO and schema markup
Hotel schema, review schema, FAQ schema, and local search optimisation so your property ranks when guests search for accommodation in your area.
Loyalty and direct-book incentive flows
Best-rate guarantees, loyalty program signups, and early check-in perks — front-and-centre to give guests a reason to book here instead of the aggregator. Built on Next.js for sub-second loads, Sanity for content the front desk can update themselves, and Stripe or your existing payment processor for direct checkout.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A hotel website that loads fast, looks better than your OTA listing, and closes bookings at checkout — without a third-party booking engine eating your margin.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Hospitality operators don't have time for multi-month agency projects. You have a peak season, a renovation window, and a marketing budget that needs to work before summer or holiday bookings open. Fixed price, fixed scope, fixed delivery date. We spec the booking flow, the room pages, the integration, and the checkout together — then build it. No surprise additions to the invoice, no missing booking integration you assumed was included.
A single busy season recaptures the entire website investment in saved commissions.
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Read moreQuestions, answered.
You can keep it. Most of our hotel builds wire into an existing channel manager (Cloudbeds, Siteminder, Mews, Opera) via their booking widget API or deep-link integration. The goal is that the transition from browsing to booking feels seamless within your brand — not that you replace your PMS.
We integrate with your channel manager's API or iFrame SDK. Availability is always pulled live from the same source your OTA listings use, so there's no risk of double-booking.
It depends on your direct marketing. A better website is necessary but not sufficient — you also need a reason for guests to land there (SEO, email, social, loyalty). What we fix is the conversion side: guests who arrive on your site should book there at a meaningfully higher rate.
A full hotel website with custom booking flow, room pages, channel manager integration, and local SEO typically runs $12k–$25k. Smaller properties or B&Bs scope lower; resort properties with multiple booking types scope higher. Every engagement is fixed-price.
Most hotel website builds ship in 8 to 12 weeks. If you have a hard deadline (opening, rebrand, peak season start), tell us upfront and we'll scope the timeline first.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.