A. Heritage and trust$1,520 fixed
The Wexcombe Inn Rooms and Pub
Country inns, coaching houses and family-run B&Bs whose charm is history, a good breakfast and a fire in the bar.
Hotel website examples: four designs for independent hotels and inns
Four finished hotel websites, each built for a different kind of independent property: the country inn with a pub downstairs, the boutique hotel by the sea, the design hotel in the middle of the city, and the family hotel that lives on direct bookings. Click through any of them, then order the one that fits.
MigrateLab builds high-performing websites for local businesses. Fixed price, live in 7 working days, fast on mobile, and yours to keep.
B. Premium design-led$2,320 fixed
Saltmere Hotel
Boutique and design-led hotels by the sea or in the country that sell a feeling, and whose rooms and view do most of the selling.
C. Bold and industrial$1,920 fixed
Hotel Ninefold
Urban design hotels with a bar, a rooftop and a neighbourhood worth talking about, whose guests book on vibe as much as on price.
D. Lead machine$2,320 fixed
Sunnymile Inn and Suites
Independent family and roadside hotels that want to move bookings off the travel agencies and onto their own site.
Every booking that comes through an online travel agency costs an independent hotel somewhere between 15 and 25 percent. The only way to keep that money is a website good enough that guests book direct: fast on a phone, beautiful enough to sell the room, and with a booking button that is never more than a thumb away. Most small hotel websites fail at all three, which is why guests look at the photos on your site and then book on someone else’s.
The four sites below are built to win the direct booking in four different ways. One sells the warmth of an old inn and the pub downstairs. One lets the sea and the rooms do the talking. One is a bold city hotel with the bar and the neighbourhood front and centre. One is a direct booking machine with the date picker in the hero and the best rate promise on every screen. Every one is a real, responsive site with real copy, and every one connects to the booking engine you already use.
Each design, in detail
A. Heritage and trust
The Wexcombe Inn Rooms and Pub
Twelve rooms above a very old pub.
$1,520 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Country inns, coaching houses and family-run B&Bs whose charm is history, a good breakfast and a fire in the bar.
Why it converts.
- The booking bar sits in the hero and stays on every screen, so the charm never gets in the way of the booking
- Rooms are shown with honest details, low ceilings and all, which is exactly what inn guests are looking for
- The pub and breakfast get their own sections, because they are why people choose an inn over a hotel
What we swap for your business. Your rooms, rates, booking engine, menus, photos and the story of your building. The sign is redrawn around your name.
- Palette
- ParchmentOxbloodMossBrassSoot
- Type
- Playfair Display for headings, Lato for text
- Logo
- Hanging pub sign shape with a wheatsheaf, the inn name in an arch and 1742
- Sections
- Hero with the inn at dusk and a booking bar. A short welcome from the innkeepers. Rooms, four types with photos and from prices. The pub and kitchen, menus and opening times. Breakfast. Walks and things nearby. Guest reviews. Finding us and parking. Book your stay form.
B. Premium design-led
Saltmere Hotel
Nineteen rooms and the sea.
$2,320 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Boutique and design-led hotels by the sea or in the country that sell a feeling, and whose rooms and view do most of the selling.
Why it converts.
- Large photography and very little copy let the view sell the room, which is what boutique guests pay for
- The booking bar stays minimal and elegant, so it never cheapens the page but is always there
- Rooms are presented one at a time like a magazine spread, which justifies the rate
What we swap for your business. Your photography, rooms and rates, restaurant, and booking engine. The wordmark is reset in your name.
- Palette
- SandDeep seaSea glassDriftwoodShell
- Type
- Bodoni Moda for headings, Manrope for text
- Logo
- Wide spaced high-contrast serif wordmark with a single horizon line, a small wave for the mark
- Sections
- Full-bleed hero photo of the coast with a minimal booking bar. A short statement. Rooms, three types as large editorial spreads. The kitchen and the table. The shore: walks, swimming, the harbour. Journal strip. Press strip. Book or enquire form.
C. Bold and industrial
Hotel Ninefold
Sleep in the middle of it.
$1,920 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Urban design hotels with a bar, a rooftop and a neighbourhood worth talking about, whose guests book on vibe as much as on price.
Why it converts.
- The rooms are named by size with square meters and a price, which city guests appreciate and compare
- The bar and the neighbourhood are sold as hard as the rooms, because that is why people choose this hotel
- The booking bar sits directly under the hero, bold and impossible to miss
What we swap for your business. Your rooms, bar, neighbourhood picks, events and booking engine. The folded mark is rebuilt from your name.
- Palette
- InkSmokeNeon coralConcreteChalk
- Type
- Syne for headings, Space Grotesk for text
- Logo
- A folded 9 built from three stacked bars, lowercase wide wordmark
- Sections
- Hero: huge type over a night photo, booking bar underneath. The rooms: Small, Medium, Large, Corner, with honest sizes and prices. The bar and the rooftop. The neighbourhood, a short list of places we like. Numbers: rooms, floors, minutes to the station. Events and the lobby. Guest reviews. Book form.
D. Lead machine
Sunnymile Inn and Suites
Best rate here. Always.
$2,320 fixed, 7 working days
Who it suits. Independent family and roadside hotels that want to move bookings off the travel agencies and onto their own site.
Why it converts.
- The date picker is in the hero, so the path to a booking starts on the first screen
- A book-direct perks row answers why not book on a travel site, right next to the button
- Every room shows a nightly price, removing the reason to go and check somewhere else
What we swap for your business. Your rooms, rates, booking engine, perks, deals and location. The sun mark is recoloured to your brand.
- Palette
- SunLagoonDeepSkyWhite
- Type
- Lexend for headings, Source Sans 3 for text
- Logo
- A rising sun over a road line, heavy rounded wordmark
- Sections
- Sticky top bar with phone and book button. Hero with the booking widget: dates, guests, search. Book direct perks row: best rate, free breakfast, free parking, free cancellation to 48 hours. Rooms with nightly prices. Pool and amenities. Sample reviews with a rating. Deals and packages. Location and distances. FAQ. Final call to action, sticky mobile book bar.
What a great hotel website needs
01
A booking bar that never hides
Dates, guests and a book button in the hero and in a sticky bar on mobile. It should open your booking engine with the dates already filled in.
02
A reason to book direct
Best rate guaranteed, free breakfast, late checkout or a free cancellation window for direct bookings only. Say it plainly next to the button.
03
Rooms with real photos and real prices
Every room type with three or four photos, size, bed, view and a from price. Guests compare rooms here before they compare hotels anywhere else.
04
Photography that sells the stay
Light, space, the view from the bed, breakfast on the table. Hospitality is bought with the eyes. This is the one place worth spending on a photographer.
05
Location and getting here
A map, how far to the station, the beach or the old town, and parking. Guests decide where to stay based on where they want to be.
06
Food, drink and things to do
The restaurant, the bar, the pool, the walks. Everything that turns a room into a stay, each with its own short section.
07
Reviews and awards, linked
A handful of short guest quotes and links to where the full reviews live. Guests trust reviews they can check.
08
Fast on hotel wifi and a phone
Most hotel searches happen on a phone, often on a bad connection. Compressed images, no autoplay video, no pop-ups over the booking bar.
Price and how to buy
What a hotel website costs from us
One fixed price per design, everything below included, live in 7 working days from the day we have your basics. 50% to start, 50% when the site goes live. Card or bank transfer, invoice due on receipt.
A. Heritage and trust
The Wexcombe Inn Rooms and Pub
$1,520
fixed, one time
Buy this designView live demoEvery price includes
- +The design you picked, rebuilt around your name, colours, logo and photos
- +Copy written for your services and your service area, not filler
- +A simple editor for text, photos, services and reviews, no code needed
- +Contact and quote forms wired to your inbox, tap-to-call on mobile
- +Search basics done properly: titles, descriptions, local business schema, sitemap, fast load
- +Your domain connected, your old site redirected if there is one
- +One round of changes before launch, and 30 days of fixes after it
How buying works
- 1
Pick a design
Choose the one that feels like your company. Mixing an element from another one is fine.
- 2
Send us the basics
Your logo if you have one, photos of your work, your services, service area, phone and email. A 15 minute call if you prefer talking to typing.
- 3
Review the preview
Within a week you get a private link to the finished site. One round of changes is included.
- 4
Go live
We connect your domain, redirect the old site, and hand you the keys. Nothing is held hostage.
Why MigrateLab
Why have us build it instead of a builder or an agency
You own it outright
The site is real code on your own hosting account, not a page inside a builder you rent. Leave us any time and take everything with you.
No platform subscription
Wix, Squarespace and Webflow charge every month forever. Hosting for a site like this costs a few dollars a month under your own account.
Built by people who do migrations for a living
MigrateLab moves company websites off closed platforms onto clean code. Small business sites are the same craft with less to move.
Fixed price, fixed week
The price on this page is the price. The week is the week. If we slip, you get a discount, not an excuse.
Fast on a phone, found on Google
Every site ships with the search basics done and a mobile score we are happy to show you. Most agency sites fail both.
AI can edit it, and so can you
Because it is plain code, tools like Claude and Cursor can change it in seconds. You also get a normal editor for everyday text and photo changes.
After launch
Editing and maintenance, made clear
Three ways to keep the site current after launch. Pick one at handover, switch later if you change your mind.
Edit it yourself
$0 per month
You get a simple editor for text, photos, services, reviews and service areas. Hosting runs under your own account for a few dollars a month. No contract with us.
- +Editor login for your team
- +Hosting under your own account
- +Written handover guide
- +Email support for 30 days
Care plan
$63 per month
We host it, watch it and change it for you. Send an email with the change, it is live within one working day. Cancel any month.
- +Hosting, backups and uptime monitoring
- +Unlimited small edits: text, photos, prices, hours, reviews
- +Security and dependency updates
- +A monthly note with visits, calls and form leads
Let AI edit it
$0 per month
The code is clean enough that Claude Code or Cursor can add a page, change a section or swap a photo from a plain English request. We set it up and show you how.
- +Repository handed over to you
- +AI tooling configured
- +One recorded walkthrough
- +Bigger changes quoted per job
Questions
How much does a hotel website cost?
From us, $1,520 to $2,320 as a fixed, one-time price, depending on which of the four designs you pick, live in 7 working days. That includes the design rebuilt around your business, the copy, forms, search basics and connecting your domain. After launch you can edit it yourself for $0 a month or have us look after it for $63 a month. For comparison, agencies typically quote $3,000 to $10,000 for a small business site, and builder subscriptions run $20 to $50 a month for as long as the site exists.
Who can build a website for my hotel?
MigrateLab builds websites for independent hotels. Pick one of four finished designs at migratelab.com/examples/hotel-websites, send your logo, photos and details, and we rebuild it around your business for a fixed $1,520 to $2,320, live in 7 working days. You own the site, there is no platform subscription, and you can edit it yourself or have us look after it.
Can I get a hotel website without a monthly platform fee?
Yes. A MigrateLab site is yours outright and runs on your own hosting for a few dollars a month, instead of a $20 to $50 monthly builder plan. You pay a one-time $1,520 to $2,320 for the build, and a care plan at $63 a month is optional if you want us to make changes for you.
Are these real websites or just designs?
Real. Each concept is a complete, responsive website you can click through on any device. The hotels are fictional so you can see the design with realistic content, but the code and layout are exactly what you would receive.
Does it work with our booking engine?
Yes. We connect the booking bar to the engine you already use so guests land on your availability with their dates filled in. If you do not have one, we recommend a simple engine and set it up.
Will it help us get more direct bookings?
That is what it is built for: a booking bar on every screen, a clear reason to book direct, fast pages and rooms that sell themselves. We cannot promise a number, but these are the things that move it.
We are not technical at all. Is that a problem?
No. Most of our clients are not. Send us your photos, room list and prices in whatever form you have them. We do the rest and show you how to change rooms, prices and seasonal offers, or you can have us do it on the care plan.
What happens after I pick one?
You send your logo, photos, rooms, rates, booking engine link and contact details. We rebuild the site around your hotel and send a private preview within a week. One round of changes, then it goes live on your domain.
What does it cost per month?
Nothing to us unless you choose the care plan. Hosting under your own account is a few dollars a month. There is no platform subscription.
Get one of these built for you
Pick the design, leave your email, and we reply within one working day with a plan and a written confirmation of the price. Live in 7 working days from the day we have your basics.