Hotel Master Booking WordPress

Hotel Master is a booking theme for WordPress that gives hotels, hostels, apartments, resorts and bed and breakfasts a built-in room reservation system.

Introduction

Hotel Master is built around its own room booking system, so guests can browse rooms, check availability and change their booking details on the site itself. The theme suits a range of accommodation types, from a hotel with many rooms to a hostel with dormitory beds or an apartment operator with a few units. Five demos show the range of styles: Classic, MyApartment, Modern, Dark and Hostel. Each one is a starting point that can be adjusted to match the property’s own look.

Design and Layout

The theme includes a built-in page builder with full-screen, full-width and boxed slider options, along with a shortcode generator for placing booking elements and other content. The Dark demo gives a different tone from the Classic and Modern layouts, the MyApartment demo suits self-catering units, and the Hostel demo suits shared accommodation.

Key Features

• Room reservation: Guests can search availability and reserve rooms, and the backend lets staff manage bookings.
• Ajax booking changes: Guests can change search dates or switch rooms during a booking without reloading the page.
• Coupon codes: Each coupon has a code, a value, an expiry date and a choice of percentage or fixed amount.
• iCal sync: Bookings can be synchronized with services such as Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway.
• Hostel mode: Dormitory rooms and per-bed booking are available for hostels.
• Add-on services: Services such as cleaning can be made mandatory or optional during booking.
• Room blocking: Individual rooms can be blocked for chosen dates.
• Redesigned transaction page: The backend transaction page has been redesigned.

Use Cases

A hotel with several room types can use the reservation system to show availability and take bookings directly on its own site. A hostel can use the dormitory and per-bed options, and an apartment operator can start from the MyApartment demo with add-on services such as cleaning. A bed and breakfast can use coupon codes for repeat guests, and a resort can block rooms on chosen dates for maintenance or private events.

Integration and Compatibility

The iCal sync works with services such as Airbnb, VRBO and HomeAway, but it has a limit: it only works when the room amount setting is one per room type. Room types that have several units are not supported by the sync, so an operator with multiple identical units should plan around this before relying on it.

The booking system works independently of WooCommerce and does not itself handle room payments. The theme is compatible with WooCommerce, so shop pages can sit alongside the booking pages, while reservations are managed by the theme’s own system. WPML compatibility is included for sites that publish in more than one language.

Customization and Flexibility

Each demo is a complete starting point, and the built-in page builder lets owners rearrange sliders and content blocks. Add-on services, room blocking and coupon codes can be configured to suit the business without code. Multilingual sites can use the WPML compatibility to publish their booking pages in more than one language.