Budgetrooms
A hotel and B&B listing business relaunched as fourteen branded websites running from one platform – with direct bookings, partner stays, maps, filters and travel guides, built to handle over a million properties.
- Client
- Budgetrooms
- Services
- Multi-site · Custom features
- Website
- budgetrooms.co.uk ↗
Budgetrooms and Roomguide launched in 2007 as a place for independent hotels and B&Bs to list their rooms for a flat fee, with no booking fees: guests deal with the property direct.
Bringing the business back meant far more than one website. Budgetrooms, Roomguide, Dreamstays and eleven sister brands each needed their own name, domain, colours and pages, but running fourteen separate systems would have multiplied the cost and the work. The platform also had to stay fast with a very large number of listings.
- One platform, fourteen brands: the site works out which brand to show from the address being visited, so each has its own look, menus and pages
- Shared listings: properties, customers and bookings are shared, and each listing can be shown on the brands chosen for it
- Book direct or partner stays: places listed with Budgetrooms are booked direct with no booking fee, alongside partner stays that can be booked and paid for online instantly
- Search that feels familiar: a map, price and facility filters, and a clear “Back to search” from every property page
- Built for scale: caching and careful database design keep searches quick, tested with over a million properties
- 47 “Top 10 things to do” city guides across the UK, US, Spain, Italy and France, shared by every brand
- The same admin design as every nemCMS site, including the dashboard, page builder and analytics, set to whichever brand you're working on
Budgetrooms and its sister sites now run from one set of code and one database. A new brand can be launched quickly, and every improvement reaches all fourteen sites at once.
Search across every brand
Guests search by destination and dates, then narrow down with filters and a map. Properties listed directly always appear above partner stays, and each result shows clearly whether it's booked direct or with our partner.