Corendon Hotels

The problem

Corendon Hotels & Resorts was about to open its first hotel, the Corendon Vitality Hotel Amsterdam. DBK made the concept. The site had to present that one hotel properly. I didn't want it built around a single building, though. A chain needs a structure where a second or third hotel can slot in without a redesign.

Approach

I made the design and built the front-end. The main menu has three parts: find a hotel, about Corendon and contact. Pick a hotel and the grey bar below it switches to that hotel's own menu: rooms, facilities, location, packages, gallery, business and contact. A booking bar with hotel, check-in, check-out and persons sits on the header photo of the homepage and the hotel page. The rooms overview lists each room type with a photo, its size, a starting price and a green book button. A single room page has its own booking form on the right and the other room types listed under it.

Outcome

Red and grey carry the whole site, with green kept for booking only. On the find-a-hotel page a second location, The College Hotel, already sits in the menu next to Amsterdam. I checked the layouts on an iPad and on a phone, where the hotel menu folds into one button.

What changed

• A main menu for the brand and a second menu per hotel.
• A booking form on the homepage, the hotel page and every room page.
• A rooms overview with size, starting price and a book button per room type.
• Layouts for desktop, tablet and phone.