From Outdated Brochure Site to a Booking Engine That Works While They Sleep
About the Client
A boutique hillside resort near Nuwara Eliya offering 18 rooms, a spa, and an in-house restaurant. The resort relies almost entirely on direct and online bookings, with the majority of guests arriving from Colombo, India, and Western Europe. Before working with Pixel Quest, the resort’s web presence consisted of a static brochure style website built several years earlier, with no booking functionality and no mobile optimisation.
The Key Challenge
The resort’s outdated website was actively costing them bookings. Most traffic came from mobile devices, but the site had never been optimised for anything beyond desktop, leading visitors to abandon the page within seconds.
- Outdated, non-mobile website with broken layouts on phones and tablets
- No online booking functionality every enquiry had to go through a manual WhatsApp or phone process
- Slow load times (8+ seconds) causing high bounce rates from paid ad traffic
- No SEO foundation the resort was invisible on Google for relevant search terms
Our Solution
Pixel Quest delivered a complete website rebuild on WordPress, designed specifically around the mobile booking journey and built with SEO as a foundation rather than an afterthought.
Custom Mobile First Design
A fully custom WordPress design built mobile first, with large visual imagery, fast loading galleries, and an intuitive room browsing experience optimised for thumb navigation.
Integrated Booking Engine
A direct booking system integrated into the website, allowing guests to check availability and book rooms instantly without leaving the site or waiting for a WhatsApp reply.
SEO & Speed Optimisation
Full on page SEO setup targeting ’boutique resort Nuwara Eliya’ and related terms, combined with image compression and caching that reduced load time from 8 seconds to under 2.
Result
Within the first three months of launch, the resort saw a measurable shift in how guests discovered and booked the property
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