Westcord

The problem

WestCord Hotels is a Dutch family business with hotels on the Wadden islands and in cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Delft. Next to the hotel sites there was Westcord Bookings, where guests search and book rooms directly. DBK made the concept. I designed the screens and coded them as HTML and CSS templates, ready to be integrated into WestCord's own booking system.

Approach

Every template shares one frame: the WestCord shield at the top left and a pink search-and-book block right below it, with location, hotel, arrival, number of nights, guests and rooms. The homepage lists the most booked rooms with review score and price and a block with reasons to book direct. A hotel page has the address, a photo strip, facilities, a map and a room table, where each room type gets its own price and pink book button. I also made a variant for WestCord Appartementen, with apartments on Ameland, Vlieland and Terschelling, and a later version of the hotels site that opens with a list of destinations.

Outcome

I kept the search block, the room table and the colours the same on every template. A new site in the group then mostly needs its own photos and text, and a guest who knows one WestCord site finds their way on the next.

What changed

• One search-and-book block used on every template.
• Room tables per hotel with a price and book button per room type.
• Variants for WestCord Hotels and WestCord Appartementen.
• Templates delivered as HTML and CSS for WestCord's own system.