A project · Paris 16th
Villa des Ambassadeurs
Seventeen rooms on a quiet street in the 16th, a fourteen-minute walk from the Eiffel Tower, and a booking engine that already worked perfectly well. The website told none of that story.
- The property
- 3-star hotel, 17 rooms, Paris 16th
- The plan
- Complete — booking engine integrated
- Languages
- French, English, Spanish
- From brief to revised version
- Seven days
Where it started
A working engine, a website lagging behind
Villa des Ambassadeurs has taken direct bookings for years through its own engine. It does its job: availability is right, payments go through, the front desk knows it inside out. Replacing it was never on the table.
The problem came earlier. A traveller looking for a quiet hotel near the Trocadéro landed on pages that showed neither what the rooms look like, nor what sits around the corner, nor how many minutes away the Eiffel Tower is. They went back to a marketplace, and the hotel paid commission on a booking it had already won.
What we built
Four pages, and nothing spare
- A home page that puts the hotel on screen in the first second.
- A rooms page: the three categories, their photos, what is inside them.
- A neighbourhood page with a hand-drawn map — the Trocadéro six minutes away, Iéna, the Arc de Triomphe, the three metro stations.
- An FAQ that answers before the guest asks: check-in, check-out, breakfast, cancellation, children, pets.
- A gallery of eighteen photos, and a Book button always within thumb’s reach.
The decision that matters
We leave the engine alone
The booking block sends guests straight to the hotel’s own engine, in their language, with the dates already filled in. No migration, no subscription to cancel, no data to move. The front desk works exactly as it did the day before.
It is the question every hotel that has already invested in a booking engine asks: am I going to have to start over? No. The engine stays yours; the site changes around it.
Three languages
Written, not translated
French, English and Spanish were written by hand, one after the other. A machine-translated page gives itself away within two sentences, and a traveller who notices thinks twice before typing a card number.
Afterwards
The hotel edits the site itself
A rate to change, a photo to swap, a question to add to the FAQ: the hotel sends us a message, reads the preview, and publishes. Nothing to install, nothing to learn, no waiting on us.
A real example: on 16 October the hotel added its breakfast hours to the FAQ, in French, English and Spanish, in two messages and one look at the preview.
Let’s talk
And your place?
Tell us about it in two lines. If your booking engine suits you, we build around it.
By email · contact@92mediahouse.com