A hotel website that takes its own bookings
Live room rates, a branded booking engine, English + Hindi
Digiocular rebuilt the website of Hotel Vagmi, a boutique hotel in Shivpur, Varanasi, and makes its weekly Reels. Guests now book direct on the hotel's own booking engine, in English or Hindi, at tonight's real rate and with no OTA commission.
Client: Hotel Vagmi
At a glance
Rooms bookable direct
Languages
Instagram reach
Direct inquiries
What needed solving
Hotel Vagmi is a boutique hotel in Shivpur, Varanasi that guests could really only book through OTAs charging 18-22% commission. The old website showed no live prices and had no way to book, nothing existed in Hindi for domestic travellers, and Instagram was sporadic. Direct revenue was leaking on every stay.
What we did
Rebuilt from scratch
A new Next.js site on the hotel's own domain — rooms, dining, a city guide, policies — opened by a loop-spliced film of the real lobby, rooms and restaurant.
Branded booking engine
booking.hotelvagmi.com, deep-linked from every room with the guest's dates, rooms and occupancy carried across.
Tonight's real price
The 'from' rate on the site is read live from the booking engine and anchored to tonight, so it never advertises a price the guest can't actually get.
WhatsApp on every room
Room types not yet on the engine open a prefilled WhatsApp enquiry instead. No enquiry forms anywhere — the owner asked for none.
Complete Hindi edition
Every page mirrored in Hindi with proper hreflang, so the site reads naturally for domestic guests.
Print, brand and Reels
Ten branded print pieces — brochure, tariff card, vouchers, in-room directory — plus weekly cinematic Reels, all from the same identity.
What changed
hotelvagmi.com now runs on the hotel's own domain with its own booking engine, live prices and two languages — a direct channel that pays no OTA commission. Alongside the site, weekly Reels took organic Instagram reach up 10× and engagement up 250% in 60 days, and direct booking inquiries via WhatsApp rose 40%.
Rooms bookable direct
Languages
Instagram reach
Direct inquiries
Built with
“Bookings used to come from Booking.com taking 20% off the top. Now half my bookings come from people who DM'd us on Instagram. That's a different business.”
— Hotel Vagmi, Hospitality
See it live
hotelvagmi.com
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