Last Summer, Jean published a great review of the best hotel reservation plugins for WordPress.
Plugins are a good solution for reservations if you have an existing website, however if you are looking for a complete booking system, you may want to consider using a WordPress theme. In today’s article, we have curated a list of twenty of the best booking and reservation WordPress templates online.
As you view the many different booking and reservation themes below, bear in mind that booking functionality is resource intensive, no matter which theme or plugin you use. Before adding any significant new functionality to your WordPress site, you need to consider whether your current hosting is capable of handling that strain.
Once you actually have traffic, you don’t want visitors to your site to be confronted with unexplained delays, they are not going to stick around if a page takes minutes to load, no matter how much they want to book that chalet in the French Alps. More importantly, you definitely don’t want the French guy who owns the chalet contacting you to ask why your site isn’t working!
The advice we always give is to make sure you get properly resourced hosting in place before you launch. We recommend two hosts that we have seen work out well for our readers, the choice between them comes down to money:
If you are on a tight budget, BlueHost has a good reputation for well-managed and well-supported shared hosting at a good price.
If, on the other hand, absolute reliability and performance are more important to you than price, WP Engine provides the best possible managed WordPress hosting, I use them for all of my most important sites, the ones that generate money. They even work out significantly cheaper than other managed WordPress hosts if you take advantage of the exclusive discount we have arranged for the readers of WP Mayor which, surprisingly, you can use in addition to their usual annual discount:
1. Luviana
Luviana Hotel Booking theme is a universal WordPress solution for hotel business, whether it’s a hotel, any vacation rental type, local inn, or even a hostel. Built exclusively for the Gutenberg block editor, the theme ensures a smooth visual editing experience for users of all skill levels.
The key point of Luviana is the built-in online reservation functionality from the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin. On top of that, the template provides 40+ free & custom Gutenberg blocks from a Getwid plugin.
2. 5 Star
5 Star is a professional hotel booking theme that features a fully customisable home page. It has a coupon system and allows you to adjust prices in seasons. You can even charge for additional items such as wifi. Reservations are handled via Templatic’s booking plugin.
3. Embark
Embark is an amazing theme for tour and travel companies, providing a simple all-in-one solution for booking, payments, and scheduling. Designed from the bottom up with tour and travel companies in mind, Embark is a powerful booking and scheduling WordPress theme that will help you take and manage bookings with ease. Create multiple calendars, availability time slots, custom fields, and customer profiles in a snap. Try Embark Live Demo here.
4. Book Your Travel
A responsive booking theme for travel websites that includes a fully functional booking plugin. It comes with nine colour schemes, a built-in slider and a filtering system for customers.
5. Appointway
Appointway is a business template that can be used to book appointments for dentists, beauty salons, advisors and lawyers. The appointment system can collect payments through the integrated payment module and email you once appointments have been arranged.
6. HotelEngine
A hotel WordPress theme that has two unique skins and eight colour schemes. It also has been optimised for tablets and mobiles.
In addition to a booking management plugin, the theme also comes packaged with the Slider Revolution and Visual Composer plugins.
7. Car Hire
A car rental theme that lets customers reserve cars directly through your website. It features a custom post type for vehicles and pricing. PayPal and credit card payments can be accepted using the theme.
8. Travelo
Travelo is a beautiful clean WordPress theme with five colour skins and a responsive design that is optimised for all devices. It features an integrated booking system, a built-in ratings system and three types of sliders.
9. Soho Hotel
A classy hotel WordPress template that has an integrated four step booking system and availability checker. It can accept deposits via PayPal or bank deposit and you can select a per person or per room pricing system.
10. RoyalGold
RoyalGold is a stylish booking template for hotels and health clubs that was designed using HTML5 and CSS3. Bookings are made using the easyReservations WordPress plugin.
13. HotelBooking
A professional hotel booking WordPress theme that allows visitors to make bookings directly through your website. It features an integrated coupon system and an availability calendar for visitors.
11. Vacation Rental
Designed for advertising homes for rent, Vacation Rental is a good option is you are looking for a design that is less flashy. It has an integrated coupon system and the home page can be customised easily using widgets.
12. Eatery
A premium restaurant theme that comes with six unique skins. It offers event management options and food menu functionality. Reservations can be made using the integrated booking form.
13. Ambassador
Ambassador is a beautiful WordPress design that was created for businesses, resorts and hotels. Customers can make bookings using the integrated booking form. It also includes a full-width-slider, events module and stylish photo gallery page template.
14. Lezzatos
Lezzatos is a feature rich WordPress theme for cafes and restaurants. A reservation form is built into the theme and it includes three different styles of menus and four predefined theme skins.
15. Dish
Dish is a restaurant WordPress theme that comes with five unique skins. It has a fantastic food menu system and visitors can book a table directly through your website. It also includes many different types of sliders for promotions.
16. Philoxenia
Philoxenia is a beautiful hotel WordPress theme that includes a home page slider, room carousel and an integrated booking form. A blog template is also included with the theme.
17. Smart Booking
SmartBooking is an integrated WordPress Theme designed for people involved in Online Taxi Business, Spa Salons or any Online/Offline Business. It has an incredibly consolidated system that enables to deal with products & services through your website. SmartBooking WordPress Theme is SEO inbuilt, plus it has the InkAppointment WordPress plugin which helps to collect online payments and also gives an option to pay your regular customers later on.
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Please note that some themes feature a complete booking system that let customers check availability, make a reservation and then make payment. Other themes simply include a booking form, which means it is up to you to manually process the booking.
Be sure to check each the features of each theme thoroughly before you buy so that the theme does what you need it to do.
Also, bear in mind that booking functionality is fundamentally resource intensive, no matter which theme or plugin you use. Before adding any significant new functionality to your WordPress site, you need to consider whether your current hosting is capable of handling that strain.
Once you actually have traffic, you don’t want visitors to your site to be confronted with unexplained delays, they are not going to stick around if a page takes minutes to load, no matter how much they want to book that chalet in the French Alps. More importantly, you definitely don’t want the French guy who owns the chalet contacting you to ask why your site isn’t working!
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Travelo is very attractive and Simple certainly my favorite.
Thankyou, Nice and Vast content! I’m going for Philoxenia.
My favorite rental booking WordPress theme is the Turbo- WooCommerce Booking & Rental Plugin. Complete rental & booking solution for your site based on WooCoommerce. Gives you option your pricing, maintain a calendar, order very effectively. This plugin allows you to sell your time or date based bookings.
Is there any theme like booking,com that allows hotels to register (extranet)? Please can you inform me?
Thanks for your great theme , I love book your travel theme
At our company we program themes for clients all the time. Some of these are great but a few are a mess. I can personally recommend Embark, nice, but not the fastest. Keep up the great work and keep the list coming.
Great themes all around. I’m thinking of using something like one of these.
I need venue booking like wedding venue booking template any suggestions
Great post buddy.. thums up!!
Great Post! Great list of Booking and reservation themes. latest and popular themes are there in the market should give a try to those as well. Like Chateau theme from Templatic and many more. But over all great collection of theme.
These are all great booking themes, though if you are a businessman that doesn’t excel at web design you may want to try some more complete solution. The companies offering all-round solutions are growing with each day, for example offers sites that would be great for a startup business or a small family company they offer booking business targeted websites with responsive design, their monthly subscription is one of the cheapest on the market and they also offer to build client specific customizations for their websites to accommodate for their clients needs. It’s worth checking it out.
This is good wordpress booking cars her you can use it for building VTC website also and more
Which would you recommend for just one villa? I don’t need anything that supports several houses or rooms. Thanks in advance…
Hi Kevin,
I have a question for you:
My client has a villa with multiple rooms. Clients can either rent individual rooms or the entire villa. If one or more rooms are rented for a particular date, the entire villa cannot be rented anymore, of course. Also, once the entire villa has been rented as a whole, none of the individual rooms are available anymore. Does your theme and booking system take that into account automatically, without having to block calendars manually?
Thx in advance for your answer!
Regards,
Robert
Nice line up. I look forward to trying a few out today
We’d love to know what you opt for and why Chris 🙂
Wonderful collection of booking themes
Its very nice functionality. Is it possible to check availability for only single date not depends on arrival and departure?
thank you very much for your collection.
But you have miss very important and full of featured Luxury| Hotel Booking and Reservation theme . Add this theme in your collection iam sure this is master piece in above all collections.
Hi, is it works with wordpress.com? or only on org?
Hi Kevin,
Wonderful compilation of booking and reservation themes. Kindly check out and if found to be of high standard, do add to this list. Thanks.
Can you recommend a theme for booking and paying for parties?
looking for a good car rentel theme, is there anyone who can recommend one?
Hi bizztor, we’re working on a product that’ll enable you to manage your car rental website and apps from a CMS (specifically designed for car rental companies). Let me know if you’d find that useful.
Hi Pranav,
Yes it would be very usefull !
I’m looking for a cars rental template, which could be multiligual (french and english).
Great booking WordPress themes.
Glad this was helpful Wendy!
Excellent work – possibly the best (and most complete) summary I have come across in this realm. thanks!