Reedbank — hotel website template

The date form comes first

Someone opening a hotel site has one question: is there a room on my dates. Everything else — the view, the sauna, the hall — is an argument that only matters after the answer. So the form sits on the first screen with the nightly rate written next to it, above the gallery rather than below it.

It submits nowhere until you point it at your own system. A template cannot know whether your bookings go to an inbox, a channel manager or TravelLine, and a form that quietly posts into the void is worse than one that says what it is. The README has the two lines to change.

Rooms say what is in them

Bed size, bath or shower, whether the window faces the courtyard or the water, whether a cot is free. Four room types including an accessible double at the same rate as the ordinary one, with the step-free route described rather than implied by an icon.

The hall is a page, not a paragraph

For a lot of hotels the banquet and conference rooms earn more than the beds, and they are usually given one line at the bottom of the home page. Here they have their own page with capacity, guide prices and what is already in the price — and the argument that sells them: guests who stay late are already at their hotel.

No stock photography, on purpose

The template ships with labelled placeholder blocks — “Photo — double, river side” — not with pictures of somebody else’s hotel. Each block says what belongs in it, so the list doubles as a brief for whoever takes the photographs. The README shows the one-line swap to a real image, with the width, height and loading attributes that keep the page from jumping.

Colour in one place

Twenty-four custom properties at the top of src/input.css, twelve for light and twelve for dark. Change --brand and every button, link and focus ring follows; there is no other place colour is written. Dark mode follows the visitor’s system unless they have chosen light.

Running the hall as well? Agenda is a weekly planner for the bookings and Tick a checklist for the set-up days.