Lodging Engine Websites
Professional Hotel Websites. Fully Managed.
Your website should help turn interested travelers into direct booking opportunities, not create more work for your team. We build, maintain, and continuously improve hotel websites designed for performance, visibility, and conversion.
Your hotel. Your booking engine. A better digital presence.
The problem
Most hotel websites work against the hotel.
Guests compare you on search engines, booking platforms, and AI assistants — then check your website before they book. That's the moment your site has to deliver.
Built for desktop, browsed on phones
Slow pages and hard-to-find booking buttons lose guests who are planning on their phones.
Room details trapped in the booking engine
When rooms, photos, and policies only appear inside the booking engine, search engines and guests can't see them on your site.
Every change needs a developer
Updating an offer, a photo, or opening times shouldn't mean waiting days for an outside agency.
Not ready for search or AI answers
Missing titles, duplicate URLs, and vague facts make it harder for search engines and AI tools to describe you accurately.
What we build
A website designed around how guests find and book hotels.
Fast and mobile-first
Lightweight pages designed for phones first, measured against Google's Core Web Vitals.
Technical SEO foundations
Clean URLs, unique titles, sitemaps, canonical tags, and accurate hotel structured data from day one.
AI search readiness
Your key facts — location, rooms, amenities, policies — stated plainly so answer engines can use them correctly.
Your booking engine, connected
Clear book buttons that send guests to the booking engine you already use.
Booking engine integration
Keep Your Booking Engine. Upgrade Your Website.
Lodging Engine works with your existing reservation technology. We integrate your website with compatible third-party booking engines instead of asking you to replace your reservation system. Your bookings, rates, availability, and payments stay with your current provider.
We're not a certified partner of any booking engine provider unless stated. Integration options depend on what your provider supports. Booking engines compared
What we never do
We don't process bookings or payments, manage room inventory, or control your rates. Those stay with your booking engine provider.
External booking links
Book buttons that open your booking engine, with dates and guests passed through where your provider supports it.
Approved widgets
Availability or booking widgets supplied by your provider, added to your pages after we've reviewed them.
Embedded booking flows
Where your provider supports embedding, the booking flow appears within your site.
Official APIs
Where a provider offers an official API, we can display information it permits — subject to the provider's terms.
Which methods are available depends on your booking engine provider. We confirm the options for your provider before we start.
How pricing works
One-Time Setup + Predictable Monthly Service
One-time setup
The agreed website design, development, configuration, booking engine connection, and launch.
Monthly service
Hosting, security updates, backups, support, and the maintenance and optimization allowance defined in your plan.
Anything outside your plan — redesigns, new features, extra pages, or ongoing SEO strategy — is optional and quoted separately. See all pricing or add Lodging Engine Growth for monthly visibility work.
Website plans
One setup fee. One monthly subscription.
Proposed starting prices in USD, excluding taxes. Your scope and price are confirmed in a written proposal.
Essential
Managed for youA professional, managed website. We make the updates.
$149/month
+ $750 one-time setup
First year: $2,538 (setup + 12 monthly payments)
- Website designed, built, and launched by our team Delivered by our team
- Responsive design for mobile, tablet, and desktop Available now
- Technical SEO basics Delivered by our team
- Hosting on your domain, security updates, and backups Delivered by our team
- Book button linked to your existing booking engine, or an approved widget Available now
- Content changes made by our team (up to 1 hour a month) Delivered by our team
Scope: Up to 8 pages at launch. Includes up to 1 hour per month of small content changes made by our team. No customer CMS dashboard.
Professional
Includes CMSA customized website your team can update itself.
$299/month
+ $1,500 one-time setup
First year: $5,088 (setup + 12 monthly payments)
- Everything in Essential, with more design customization Delivered by our team
- Hotel CMS: edit rooms, amenities, offers, pages, and journal posts Available now
- Photo uploads or photos added by link Available now
- Booking engine link with dates and guests passed through (where your provider supports it), or an approved widget Available now
- Enhanced technical SEO Delivered by our team
- Maintenance and optimization by our team (up to 2 hours a month) Delivered by our team
Scope: Up to 15 pages at launch. Includes up to 2 hours per month of maintenance and optimization by our team.
Performance
Includes CMSAdvanced customization, two languages, and monitoring by our team.
$599/month
+ $3,000 one-time setup
First year: $10,188 (setup + 12 monthly payments)
- Everything in Professional Available now
- Advanced design customization Delivered by our team
- Website in up to 2 languages, set up by our team Delivered by our team
- Enhanced structured data Delivered by our team
- Monitoring of this website by our team (technical, speed, and search checks) Delivered by our team
- Priority support Delivered by our team
- Website performance dashboard In development
- AI-assisted content drafting, approved by your team In development
- Adding languages yourself in the CMS In development
Scope: Up to 25 pages at launch, in up to 2 languages. Includes up to 5 hours per month of maintenance and optimization. Features marked “In development” are not part of the plan until they ship.
Available now: works in the product today. Delivered by our team: part of the service, not self-service. In development: not included yet.
First-year figures exclude taxes and extras and don't imply a twelve-month contract.
Portfolio
Hotel websites our team has built.
Live sites for hotels and villas in Mexico. Click through to see each one as guests do.
Visit site (opens in a new tab)La Casona de Don Lucas
Hotel · Guanajuato
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Hotel Santa Regina
Hotel · Guanajuato
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Hotel Plata Condesa
Hotel · Guanajuato
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Hotel de la Paz
Hotel · Guanajuato
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Casa Quebrada
Boutique hotel · San Miguel de Allende
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Villa Delfines
Private villa · Isla Mujeres
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Villa Bliss
Private villa · Cancún
Visit site (opens in a new tab)Rocaval Suites
Hotel suites · San Cristóbal de las Casas
Professional and Performance
A secure CMS for your team.
Update rooms, photos, offers, and articles yourselves — with a draft and publish workflow so nothing goes live by accident. Each hotel's content is kept separate and private to its own team.
- Rooms and suites: descriptions, sizes, beds, occupancy
- Photo library with alt text and credits
- Amenities and hotel facts
- Offers and promotions with start and end dates
- Content pages, blog, and destination guides
- SEO titles and descriptions for every page
- Booking engine settings
- Draft and publish workflow
- User roles for your team
Uses a fictional hotel. No bookings are made.
Performance adds
- Website in up to 2 languages, set up by our team Delivered by our team
- Enhanced structured data Delivered by our team
- Monitoring and search checks by our team Delivered by our team
- Website performance dashboard In development
- AI-assisted drafting, always approved by your team In development
AI-assisted drafts are suggestions only — nothing is published without approval from your team.
AI-assisted drafting, the website performance dashboard, and self-service language versions are in development. Your proposal states exactly what's available when you sign.
Essential sites are fully managed: send us your changes and our team makes them within your monthly allowance.
Hosting and maintenance
Everything needed to keep your site running.
Hosting
Fast, secure hosting with HTTPS included.
Security and updates
Software and security updates applied by our team.
Maintenance allowance
A defined number of hours each month for routine changes and upkeep.
How it fits together
Your website subscription and our visibility service do different jobs.
Start with a website plan. Add the Growth service for ongoing search and content work, or Guest Engine for guest messaging, if and when you want them.
Website subscription covers
- Website platform and hosting
- Security and software updates
- Backups
- CMS access (Professional and Performance)
- Defined routine technical upkeep
Lodging Engine Growth covers
- Ongoing SEO, AEO, and GEO strategy
- Agreed implementation work
- Content optimization
- Search performance analysis
- Monthly strategic review
Lodging Engine Intelligence
The AI-assisted checks behind our managed services — technical SEO, structured data, speed, and AI search readiness, reviewed by our specialists. On Performance, our team monitors your website as part of the service. The software isn't sold on its own.
About our technologyAdd Guest Engine for faster replies to common guest questions, with your team handling the rest. Discover Guest Engine
Clear scope
What website plans don't include.
- Building or operating a booking engine — we integrate with the one you already use.
- Processing bookings, payments, rates, or room inventory.
- Unlimited SEO, unlimited content creation, or unlimited changes.
- Redesigns and new custom features beyond the agreed scope (quoted separately).
- Photography, video, and translation of your content (unless agreed in your proposal).
- Third-party costs such as your booking engine, domain registration, or paid integrations.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Proposal
Discuss your hotel website.
Tell us about your property, your current site, and your booking engine. We'll reply with practical next steps and, if it's a fit, a written proposal.
Lodging Engine Websites is a new service. Timelines and features for your site are confirmed in your written proposal.
We never guarantee rankings, AI mentions, or bookings.