A hotel booking system is one of the main components of a site that provides travellers hotel booking services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the online hotel reservation system, they can check a particular hotel\u2019s availability and plan their trip accordingly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, it allows hotel owners to manage their workflows nicely and provide top-level services to the guests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It helps both parties establish a genuine customer and owner relationship right from the time of making a reservation at the hotel using the booking system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you run a hotel booking site or planning to start one, and looking for a WordPress hotel booking plugin, then in this post, we\u2019ll look at the 10 best hotel booking plugins for WordPress available for free and on premium basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using these booking plugins, you\u2019d be able to build the ultimate hotel booking system you\u2019re thinking to create. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without any delay, let\u2019s check them out one by one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n

(1) Date and Time Picker<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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If you’re using Contact Form 7, WPForms, Divi Contact Form Module and other contact form builder as your hotel booking form, then with the Date and Time Picker<\/strong><\/a> WordPress plugin, you can easily create a hotel booking system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can use this plugin to display a date calendar and time picker on the form that customers can use to pick their desired date and time to make a reservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It allows you to do that by inserting an input field on the form and then convert it into a date and time picker using the CSS Selector<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moreover, if you use the premium version<\/strong><\/a> of Date and Time Picker, you can export the data of your hotel booking system to several 3rd party booking management system using the .ics<\/strong> file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, Google Calendar<\/strong>, Outlook<\/strong>, Airbnb<\/strong> and Booking.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you go with the free version of the Date and Time Picker to create a hotel or restaurant reservation system<\/a>, then the date calendar can disable past dates, specific dates and weekdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can have a time range from day start to day end. And even define specific time for different weekdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the premium, you can have a date range for check-ins and check-outs<\/a>. Make a date and time picker more stylish, plus easily integrate it with different form builders like Gravity Forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(2) Booking Calendar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Booking Calendar<\/strong><\/a> is a simple to use WordPress hotel booking plugin with advanced options. It allows you to add a calendar to the site that displays customers what dates are available to book, already booked, and pending approval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has an inbuilt form editor, so you don’t have to install any other contact form builder. Though, using this hotel booking WordPress plugin, you’d only be able to create a single form with First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone Number and a Custom Message field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the customer books a hotel by selecting multiple or single dates, it will appear in the Booking Calendar’s backend as pending. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, you can approve or delete it. Once you do either, the customer will receive the email confirming whether his accommodation has been booked or not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This how Booking Calendar works, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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