ThinkReservations: a Check Availability widget and room links

ThinkReservations says it’s built for hotels and boutique hotels, B&Bs and inns, hotel groups, and vacation rentals from one unit to a portfolio.

1. 01

   The Check Availability widget

   A script you download, edit and host yourself, plus a small placeholder on each page. It comes as a check availability block, a room-specific block, a room block with a calendar, or a calendar alone. ThinkReservations doesn’t support installing it on your site, so your web person handles it.

2. 02

   Your own search with a link

   ThinkReservations documents booking engine links with dates, adults, children, a coupon code or a room, so your own search bar or room pages can hand off with everything filled in.

Guests book at secure.thinkreservations.com followed by your property’s short name. ThinkReservations doesn’t document running it on your own domain. It customizes the booking engine to match your website.

ThinkReservations documents start_date and end_date (YYYY-MM-DD), number_of_adults, number_of_children, coupon_code (with customer_group=coupon_code) and room_id, which shows that room first.

API. Included on every plan. You create your own keys under Settings. It’s read-only. It can read reservations, availability, rates and rooms, but it can’t create or change reservations, so booking still happens on ThinkReservations’ page.

Payments. ThinkPayments, which runs on Stripe.

ThinkReservations lists connections to big travel sites, vacation rental sites and Google.

Big travel sites

• Booking.com
• Expedia
• Hotels.com
• HotelTonight
• Tripadvisor

Vacation rental sites

• Airbnb
• Vrbo

Google

• Google free booking links

Booking.com also covers Priceline, Agoda and Kayak, and Expedia covers Hotels.com, Travelocity and Orbitz. Other sites like Glamping Hub get a one-way iCal feed. Hipcamp isn’t documented.

Use the documented links. A search bar on your homepage and a Book button on every room page that opens that room with dates filled in is fast, works on any site and is easy to keep running.

Either way, your own pages are what Google and AI tools read and recommend, so that's where the work pays off. I build direct booking websites around the booking software you already have, and I can move a site out of your booking software, redirecting every old page so your rankings carry over.