hospitality · booking

Booking that feels like the stay already started

Direct reservations platform for a boutique hotel group — calm, atmospheric, and faster than the OTAs.

Curved layered glass with warm evening light — Oqtosh Stays booking case visual
year

2025

scope

Web platform · Booking engine · Photography direction

stack

Next.js · Headless CMS · PMS integration

context

Oqtosh Stays runs four boutique properties between Tashkent and Samarkand. Online travel agencies took up to 22% of every booking — and presented rooms with the same template used for airport motels.

the challenge

Give guests a reason to book direct: a site that sells the feeling of the stay, with a booking engine that beats the OTAs on speed and clarity, connected live to the group's property management system.

the approach

We designed around atmosphere first — full-bleed imagery, unhurried pacing, typography that breathes — then made the booking engine disappear into it: dates, room, confirmation, three steps inside the mood rather than a jarring checkout portal.

Rates and availability sync live with the PMS, so the site never quotes a room it can't deliver — the trust failure that had pushed guests to OTAs in the first place.

Floating glass panel showing the booking experience as a warm luminous image block and booking bar
the craft

The whole experience holds 60fps scrolling through heavy imagery via aggressive art-directed loading: rooms appear as light resolves, never as spinners. Bookable rate to confirmed stay in under two minutes on a phone.

results
+44%
direct reservations in one season
−22%
commission recovered per direct booking
1:54
median time to confirmed booking