The Chestnut Grove is a restored 1933 family estate in Dalhousie, brought back to life as a six-room luxury villa. A property like this lives or dies on direct bookings, so the build had to cover the full stack: a fast, search-ready website, real payment handling, availability synced across every OTA the property lists on so no date gets double-booked, and the print pieces that carry the same feel into a guest's actual stay.
Every booking a boutique property takes through an OTA comes with a commission cut, and every double-booked date costs a guest's trust before they've even checked in, two problems most hospitality sites never solve. We built thechestnutgrove.com around both: a direct booking engine with Razorpay built in, so guests can book and pay on the property's own site instead of relying only on third-party platforms, and a channel sync that keeps availability and rates updated in real time across Airbnb, Booking.com, MakeMyTrip, and the other OTAs the property lists on, so the same room can't be sold twice.
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A beautiful site that's slow or invisible on search doesn't fill rooms. Alongside the build, we handled on-page SEO, structured metadata, clean URLs, image alt text, and copy built around the terms people search for when planning a stay in Dalhousie, plus page speed: compressed and properly sized imagery, lazy-loaded galleries, and a lean build with nothing loading that a guest doesn't need. A slow page loses a booking before anyone's even seen a room.
Beyond the site, we designed two pieces of the property's physical guest experience: the dining menu and the room door key design, carrying the same restored-heritage tone as the property itself.
