Albatross is a nifty and elegant free WordPress hotel theme. It’s dedicated to building rental property sites for any accommodation type, ranging from a hotel with multiple rooms to urban and rustic vacation rentals. The Albatross WordPress hotel template is backed by two powerful plugins: MotoPress Hotel Booking for online bookings, property search, availability calendars, property management, and Elementor for seamless visual customization. Build your hotel brand online, grow direct bookings, and save hours of time you spend on your business routine.
A Perfect Free Elementor Template for Hotels
Seasonal Pricing
Unlimited Properties & Bookings
Online Payment Processing
OTAs Channel Manager
Bookings Calendar
Extras & Packages
Taxes & Fees
Custom Search Filters
Automated Emails
Revenue & Bookings Stats
Discount Coupons
Availability Calendars
You can extend this theme with many premium extensions*
PDF Invoices
Automated Payment Requests
Property Reviews
WooCommerce Payment Gateways
Mailchimp Integration
Personalized Emails
Customized Checkout Form
*These extensions are NOT included with the theme purchase, but you can buy the desired ones separately.
Breathtaking Front Page & Theme Visuals
Breathtaking Front Page & Theme VisualsPrioritizing bold image galleries, properties, news & events, you’ll create outstanding pre-vacation experiences of your hotel or vacation rental. You can use a video, slider, or image in the front page header.
Feature your best rooms, focus on the social proof with testimonials, and provide visitors with structured information in clean header and footer sections.
Property Page Design Variations
Property Page Design VariationsThis free Hotel Booking Elementor WordPress theme makes it easy to showcase properties in a compact list view with a sidebar or put single/multiple properties in the spotlight (without a sidebar).
With a single accommodation layout, you are free to focus on individual properties – display an image gallery, room capacity, pricing, availability calendars, virtual tours, and more.
Tweak Theme Design with Elementor
Tweak Theme Design with ElementorThe Albatross free WordPress hotel theme is crafted with the most popular and loved WordPress site builder – Elementor. It guarantees smooth and flexible edit times for you, even if you don’t have any tech skills.
All those stunning visuals you see in a demo – galleries, tabs, sliders, testimonials, and more are pre-built and styled with Elementor. And you can edit them in visual mode!
Lottie Animation, Image Hotspots & More with Stratum
Lottie Animation, Image Hotspots & More with StratumStratum is our hand-crafted collection of extra widgets that brings many more customization opportunities to Elementor and Albatross.
We didn’t just pack this addon with the theme, we added many pre-designed content widgets created with Stratum: lightweight Lottie animations, maps, image galleries, and more!
Change Theme Accent Colors in WordPress Hotel Template
Change Theme Accent Colors in WordPress Hotel TemplateThe Albatross Free WordPress Hotel Theme allows you to change the color scheme via WordPress Customizer for the entire site globally.
For individual content elements, there are always Elementor widgets to help you choose complementary colors for buttons, backgrounds, texts, and any needed content element.
One-Click Demo Import for Super Quick Setup
One-Click Demo Import for Super Quick SetupWant your hotel site to look exactly like in a demo? You won’t need to worry about the setup process!
The Albatross Free WordPress Hotel theme is packed with the dedicated tool that will help launch your site and make it look like in a demo, literally in minutes.
Property Management & Bookings with MotoPress
The MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin is sharpened for lodging business needs. It enables you to have control over the full cycle of property and bookings management! The plugin is available in free and PRO versions. The Albatross Elementor hotel template is powered by the free version, but we also highlight premium features so you can see all plugin opportunities.
Seasonal Pricing & Custom Rates
Seasonal Pricing & Custom RatesSet different rates for the same accommodation type based on different conditions. For example:
- Accommodation facilities.
- Calendar period (holidays, weekends, seasons).
- Discount coupons.
- The length of stay and number of guests (available with Hotel Booking Pro only).
PayPal, Pay on Arrival, Direct Bank Transfer
PayPal, Pay on Arrival, Direct Bank TransferThe free version of the Hotel Booking plugin integrated with Albatross allows for secure payment processing via the built-in PayPal payment gateway, direct bank transfer, or cash on arrival.
You can unlock even more gateways, such as Stripe, Beanstream/Bambora, Braintree, and 2Checkout with Hotel Booking Pro.
Property Search Form with Your Custom Filters
Property Search Form with Your Custom FiltersThis feature is available with Hotel Booking Pro only.
For multiple accommodations, you can make the property search as quick and convenient as possible for your prospects.
The search form can be easily extended with any sorting filters that are specific to your business realities.
Automated & Manually Approved Bookings
Automated & Manually Approved BookingsYou may opt for accepting all booking submissions automatically, for example, upon payments or when a guest confirms their booking by clicking a link in the email.
Otherwise, entrust this task to your website admin staff so that they can approve or decline booking submissions manually.
Double Your Profit with Bookable Extras
Double Your Profit with Bookable ExtrasAdd and categorize extra services, assign them to specific accommodation types, and set charging rules (e.g. charge once per stay or per each night) for them.
At checkout, guests will be able to view and add the offers they like to their bookings.
Sync Site Bookings with OTAs like Airbnb
Sync Site Bookings with OTAs like AirbnbThis feature is available with Hotel Booking Pro only.
Grow direct bookings with the Albatross Hotel Booking Elementor WordPress Theme but don’t forget about extra channels! Sync availability calendars across different OTAs like Airbnb or Booking.com and your WordPress website.
Admin Calendar for All Bookings
Admin Calendar for All BookingsThe calendar gives you a visual view of all bookings with all statuses (confirmed, pending confirmation, etc.).
You can quickly filter them by the status, date, or accommodation type to see available/unavailable slots. Additionally, you’ll view all bookings in chronological order via the Payment History menu.
Portable Bookings Data in CSV Documents
Portable Bookings Data in CSV DocumentsFeel free to generate booking reports and export them in a CSV format.
For your spreadsheet document, you can choose individual fields with information about accommodation types, booking statuses, booking IDs, rates, and more filters.
More features of the Albatross Free WordPress Hotel Theme
- Pre-made pages: Amenities, Restaurant, Gallery, About Us, Contact Us, News, Rooms
- Mailchimp subscription form
- Translate the theme with WPML, Weglot, and other WordPress multilingual plugins
- GDPR ready
- 9 widget zones
- 3 navigation menus
- 2 blog layouts
- Google Maps integration
- Social icons.
More features of the MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin
Compare MotoPress Hotel Booking Lite vs PRO
- Create a directory of properties with details, such as amenities, photos, videos, individual availability calendars
- Collect and file mandatory fees, accommodation taxes, service taxes, fee taxes
- Charge full or deposit payments
- Fully personalized email automation for bookings
- Block specific rooms and dates to temporarily disable bookings for chosen properties
- Allow one guest to book multiple accommodations during one transaction and use different guest names
- Actions and filters for developers
- Free video tutorials
- Add bookings manually to the dashboard (available with Hotel Booking Pro only)
- Manually edit original booking details: check-in/check-out dates, booked accommodations, booked services, and property rates (available with Hotel Booking Pro only)
- Sync bookings with Apple and Google Calendars (available with Hotel Booking Pro only).
How Do I Use Albatross with PRO Hotel Booking Plugin Features?
- Download and install the Albatross Free WordPress Hotel Theme.
- From the WordPress admin dashboard, upgrade Hotel Booking Lite to PRO.
Download Demo Data for Albatross
Download the Albatross theme demo data files and then proceed to the “Manual demo files upload” section in your WordPress dashboard. To download files below, follow the link > right-click of your mouse > click ‘Save as’ > Save to your device.
Download content import file(XML): albatross.xml
Download widgets import file(WIE): albatross-widgets.wie
View the theme demo here: Albatross
Data import is generally not immediate and can take up to 10 minutes.
After you import this demo, you will have to configure the Mailchimp and Google Maps API keys separately.
Detailed Video Tutorial
