What a guest sees, end to end

Everything else in this section is written from your side of the screen. This page is written from the guest’s, because the fastest way to spot something wrong with your site is to walk it the way a stranger would.

The screenshots below are a real published Stay N Host site, not a mock-up.

1. The front door

Guest URL / on your custom domain, or /s/your-slug

Your logo, your hero image, your tagline, and a search box that spans every property you published. Below the fold sit your destinations, your collections, and whatever custom pages you added.

If a guest has no dates in mind, the same box offers “I’m flexible”: a length of stay and a month, answered with when the portfolio is actually free.

2. Results

Guest URL /search

Rooms that can genuinely take those dates, grouped by property, each with the total for the stay and the average per night. The rail on the left filters by the amenities your units actually carry, with a count beside each one, so a guest never picks a filter that returns nothing.

Map view puts a price pin on each property. A pin opens that property’s card.

The results are advisory, and the wording says so

A room shown here can still be taken by somebody else before this guest finishes. The page says “available”, never “reserved” - the unit is only held once a payment proof is recorded, and the two-hour hold starts there.

3. A property

Your photographs, your description, the amenities, the map, and your policies, in the order a guest decides in. The tab strip sticks to the top as they scroll.

4. The rooms

One card per room type, each priced for the dates the guest already typed. Their search travels with them: a click never costs a guest their dates.

5. A room

The room’s own gallery, its facts, your written description of it, and Book.

6. The enquiry, or the booking

Two doors, and both land in your workspace:

• Book takes the guest through the funnel: their details, then a quotation with your bank details, then your confirmation. It mints a priced inquiry - nothing is held until a payment proof is recorded and verified.
• Enquire is for the stay that does not fit a form: a long stay, a group, a question. Every accepted enquiry opens a real inquiry in your inbox, with the guest’s dates, phone and WhatsApp number attached.

Card payment is not offered, and the site says so

The booking page tells the guest plainly that card payment is coming and that you take bank transfer or cash with a proof upload. Do not write copy anywhere on your site that implies a card checkout exists.

Walk your own site before you publish

Open it signed out, in a private window, on a phone. The three things that most often look wrong to a stranger and right to you:

1. A property with no photographs. It falls back to its rooms’ photos, and if those are empty too the card is bare. See Photos.
2. Prose you wrote as one paragraph. Your line breaks are kept, so what looks like a wall of text in the editor is a wall of text on the site.
3. A collection that currently matches nothing. It is hidden from the guest rather than shown empty, so check the match count on the Collections tab.

What’s next

• Search, filters and the map
• Collections and destination hubs
• What your site charges