Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine & Availability Calendar is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by leslierad. With a rating of 3.0★ from 1 reviews.
Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine & Availability Calendar is a WordPress app, with a 3.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine & Availability Calendar is a WordPress app. It holds a 3.0★ average from 1 review on WordPress.
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Modern Hotel Booking is a hotel booking plugin for WordPress that lets vacation rental owners, B&B hosts, guesthouse managers and boutique hoteliers accept direct bookings on their own website — with zero OTA commission fees.
Built as a complete direct booking engine with a real-time availability calendar, AI-powered guest concierge and full page builder support, it replaces the need for costly OTA platforms like Airbnb or Booking.com.
💰 Direct Bookings — Keep 100% of Your Revenue
Per-Night Booking Engine — Optimized for hotels, guesthouses, bed and breakfasts and vacation rentals
Color-Coded Availability Calendar — Real-time room availability as a Gutenberg block, shortcode or Elementor widget
Zero Commission — Accept direct room reservations on your WordPress site without paying 15–25% OTA fees
Manual & Automated Availability — Free manual date blocking + Pro automated 2-way iCal sync with Airbnb, VRBO & Google Calendar
🤖 AI Concierge — 24/7 Virtual Receptionist
The first hotel booking plugin with a built-in AI Concierge. Your 24/7 virtual front desk answers guest inquiries about room availability, amenities, pricing, check-in policies and house rules — then guides guests through booking. Connect your own free Google Gemini or OpenAI API key with zero ongoing fees.
📋 Free Core Features
Property & Room Management
Unlimited room types and room units with base per-night pricing and guest capacity
Flexible min/max night stay rules, globally or per room
Manual date blocking and offline guest booking creation
Same-day turnover logic for check-in and check-out management
Page Builder & Theme Compatibility
8 native Gutenberg blocks — Booking Form, Room Calendar, Room Grid, Company Profile, WhatsApp Chat, Bank Transfer, Revolut Pay, AI Concierge
Full shortcode support — [mhbo_booking_form], [mhbo_room_calendar], [mhbo_room_grid], [mhbo_company_profile]
3 optional Elementor widgets with visual controls and live editor preview
Works with any WordPress theme — Block themes, Classic editor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and more
Guest Communication & Payments
AI Concierge chatbot with 13 native WP 7.0 Abilities in 15+ languages
Custom HTML email templates for booking confirmation notifications
Offline payments — Pay on Arrival, Bank Transfer, Revolut Pay link/QR, WhatsApp inquiry
Privacy & Performance
Zero-trace architecture — all data stored locally in your WordPress database, no external tracking
Multilingual — WPML 4.x/5.x, Polylang, Bogo and qTranslate-X compatible with 15 localized languages
High-concurrency MySQL locking (GET_LOCK) to prevent double-booking
🏆 Pro Features
Online Payments & Channel Management
Stripe (Credit Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, 3D Secure), PayPal and Braintree (3DS2) payment gateways
Automated 2-way iCal sync — Airbnb, VRBO, Szallas.hu, Travelminit, Google Calendar and any iCal feed
Deposit payments — percentage or fixed amount at checkout
Dynamic Pricing & Promotions
Seasonal rates for date ranges, holidays, and peak seasons
Weekend price multipliers for Friday and Saturday
Extra guest and child tier pricing
Coupon and promo code engine integrated with AI Concierge
Visual calendar editor for bulk rate and stay rule management
Analytics, Invoicing & Compliance
Business intelligence dashboard — ADR, RevPAR, Occupancy Rate and revenue charts
Professional HTML and PDF invoicing with VAT inclusive/exclusive tax breakdowns
GDPR compliance suite with consent checkboxes and automated PII erasure
Zero-trust AI identity verification with 6-digit OTP email for returning guests
Official Documentation | Pro Features & Licensing | Privacy Policy | GitHub
🏡 Who Is This For?
Guesthouses — per-night booking logic, WhatsApp inquiry and professional invoicing
Bed & Breakfasts — min/max stay rules, email automation, AI Concierge guest support
Vacation Rentals — standalone property management with zero OTA commission dependency
Boutique Hotels — multi-room availability engine with real-time booking calendar
Quick Start in 5 Steps
Hotel Booking > Room Types — Create your room or unit categories with base price and capacity
Hotel Booking > Rooms — Add individual rooms or units and assign each to a Room Type
Hotel Booking > Settings > General — Select your Booking Page from the dropdown
Edit any page — Add the Hotel: Booking Form Gutenberg block, shortcode [mhbo_booking_form] or optional Elementor widget
(Optional) Hotel Booking > Settings > AI — Paste your free Google Gemini API key to activate your AI Concierge instantly
Credits
Open-source libraries bundled locally — no external CDN requests:
FullCalendar v7.0.2 — MIT License — fullcalendar.io
Chart.js v4.5.1 — MIT License — chartjs.org
Flatpickr v4.6.13 — MIT License — flatpickr.js.org
Privacy Policy
Modern Hotel Booking does not collect or transmit guest or admin data to our servers. All booking data is stored locally in your WordPress database.
AI Concierge: When enabled, guest messages and property context are sent to your configured AI provider (Google Gemini or OpenAI) to generate responses. Conversation context is stored as WordPress Transients for up to 2 hours then automatically deleted. No PII is permanently stored by this plugin.
Rate Limiting: Anonymised per-IP request counts are stored as Transients (2-minute TTL) to prevent abuse. No IP addresses are permanently saved.
See our full Privacy Policy.
External Services
All connections are optional and only active when configured by the administrator:
WhatsApp — Communication links only. Privacy Policy
Revolut — Payment links and QR codes. Privacy Policy
Google Gemini / OpenAI — AI Concierge responses during active chat only. Google Privacy | OpenAI Privacy
Pro version only:
Stripe — Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay processing. Privacy Policy
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What is Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine & Availability Calendar?
Modern Hotel Booking — Direct Booking Engine & Availability Calendar is a WordPress app by leslierad. It holds a 3.0-star average from 1 review on WordPress.
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