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Vila Evelina: guest house website upgrade with its own booking window

A Druskininkai guest house's WordPress website now takes bookings in the villa's own booking system instead of a Booking.com window, works fully in Lithuanian, English and Russian, has a gallery the staff manage themselves and is ready for search engines and AI answers.

What was needed

Vila Evelina is a guest house in Druskininkai. Bookings on its website went through a Booking.com window, the English version was incomplete and there was no Russian version at all.

The English pages showed wrong contact details and some of their buttons led to pages that did not exist; the site ran without a secure connection (https) on outdated WordPress and PHP versions, and the staff could not change the gallery or the main photo themselves.

What we built

  • A booking window inside the site: the guest house's own FrontDeskMaster booking system replaces the Booking.com window on the Lithuanian, English and Russian booking pages, so guests book directly with the villa.
  • The whole site in three languages: the English version completed and a full Russian version added, with every page linked to its translations.
  • English version fixes: correct contact details and useful links in the footer, an English menu and home-page slider, and booking buttons that open the English booking page.
  • A photo gallery with its own admin screen: the staff add, arrange and remove photos and write their captions, also from a phone; the main home-page photo is changed with one choice.
  • Enlarged photos open in the centre of the screen on every page.
  • A Google review link with a QR code for printing, and a block of Google reviews on the home page in all three languages.
  • Ready for search and AI answers: a page about who the guest house suits, its rooms and what is nearby, in three languages, plus structured data, page titles, descriptions and a sitemap that search engines and AI tools read; the Google business profile tidied up.
  • House rules pages in Lithuanian, English and Russian.
  • A technical upgrade: a secure connection (https), a newer PHP version, updated WordPress and free plugins, speed and phone view fixes, with a full backup of the site made before any work.
  • Every change was first built and tested on a separate test copy of the site and moved to the live site only with the client's approval; every update can be rolled back.

What the client can now do themselves

  • Change gallery photos, their order and captions, also from a phone.
  • Change the main home-page photo with one choice.
  • Change the Google review link and download its QR code for printing.
  • Manage bookings, prices and availability in their own booking system, which the site shows by itself.
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