A guest's first job is picking dates — so that's the first thing they see
At a boutique hotel the buying decision starts with a photo and ends with a date. The whole page is built to put those two steps back to back.
- Industry
- Boutique hotel
- Location
- Alaçatı, Çeşme
- Capacity
- 9 rooms
- Status
- Concept build
Design decisions
Why it looks this way
This is a concept build — not real client work. What follows are the decisions I'd defend while working with a real business in this industry.
The house's own material instead of the blue-and-white sea cliché
I dropped the blue-and-white palette that "Aegean hotel" usually means. The palette came from the house itself: stone, olive green, earth, and ochre. The photos show the courtyard, the bougainvillea, the breakfast table — not the sea.
The booking bar overlaps the hero
The page's signature element: a bar for check-in/check-out dates, guest count, and room type overlaps the hero's bottom edge by 58 pixels. A visitor sees the place and can pick dates before they've even scrolled.
"You stay in the room you saw in the photo"
In a nine-room house, every room is different. Stating that the room number is fixed at booking is the clearest way to stand apart from chain hotels — and it's the thing guests worry about most.
Saying less to hold attention better
The amenities section skips spa, gym, restaurant — it lists pool, breakfast, bicycles, and quiet instead. A line like "after 23:00, conversation in shared spaces stays at a whisper" tells a guest who the hotel is for better than any bullet list.
Full page
Top to bottom
Systems for the real project
- — Date- and guest-count booking bar
- — Room type and availability management
- — Booking admin panel
- — Instant notification on a new booking
- — Trilingual structure (TR / EN / DE)
- — Gallery with a mosaic layout
- — Hotel structured data
- — Location and distance information
In this concept the interface was designed; the database and notification layer already run live in Casa Aurelia.
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