Public Website
- Room catalogue with Standard, Deluxe, Luxury and Suite filters
- Booking enquiry form in a modal
- Restaurant page with the Thakali menu and prices
- Gallery and blog
14Case study · Hotel website & local SEO
Hotel Aarohi: A Hotel Website Built for Local SEO
Hotel Aarohi is a hotel in Chandrapur, Rautahat, with rooms from NPR 2,500, a Thakali restaurant and halls for events. Between March and May 2026 I designed and built its website, room catalogue, booking enquiries and local SEO pages, plus a full-stack management prototype. The site is live.
- Rooms filtered by Standard, Deluxe, Luxury and Suite
- Booking enquiries from any page, with the phone always visible
- Local pages with Hotel, FAQ and opening-hours schema
- RoleSolo: design, development & SEO
- ClientHotel Aarohi, Chandrapur, Rautahat
- BuiltMarch–May 2026
- StatusLive
01The problem
The Problem: A Good Hotel Local Search Could Not Find
A hotel in a smaller town gets most of its guests from a phone search: “hotel in Chandrapur”.
Hotel Aarohi in Chandrapur, Rautahat had rooms from NPR 2,500, a Thakali restaurant and halls for events, but no website that showed any of it clearly or appeared in local search.
It needed a fast site that answers that search, shows its rooms and makes booking one tap away.
02The solution
What I Built: A Fast Hotel Website and a Management Prototype
I designed and built a static marketing site with pages for rooms, the restaurant, the gallery and a blog. Guests can filter rooms by category and send a booking enquiry from a modal on any page, and the phone number for bookings is always visible.
Alongside the public site I built a full-stack management prototype in React, Express and Prisma: a dashboard for rooms and their status, bookings, customers, gallery and notifications. It is the kind of website development most local businesses in Nepal need.
03Features
What the Hotel Aarohi Website Does for Guests and Staff
A public site that answers the guest’s search and makes booking easy, and a prototype for the staff who manage rooms.
Local SEO
- Landing pages for the best hotel in Chandrapur, Thakali food in Chandrapur and things to do in Chandrapur
- Hotel, FAQ, opening hours and breadcrumb structured data
- Clean URLs, sitemap, robots and humans files
Management Prototype
- Dashboard overview
- Rooms with available, booked and reserved status
- Bookings, customers, gallery and notifications
04Architecture
Hotel Aarohi Architecture and Tech Stack
The public website is plain static HTML, which keeps it fast on rural mobile connections and free to host. Booking enquiries go through Formspree, so the hotel receives them by email without a server to maintain.
- Guest’s phoneStatic HTML, CSS and JSNo framework to download
- HostingGitHub PagesA custom domain, free to host
- EnquiriesFormspreeSent to the hotel by email
- PrototypeReact + Express + PrismaSeven data models
The Hotel Aarohi Tech Stack
The management prototype is a separate React and Express application with seven data models: users, hotels, rooms, bookings, gallery items, customers and notifications.
- Live site
- Static HTML, CSS and JavaScriptGitHub PagesCustom domain
- Forms
- Booking enquiries through Formspree
- Prototype front end
- React 19ViteTailwind CSS 4Framer MotionReact Router 7Zustand
- Prototype back end
- Express 5 in TypeScriptPrisma 7PostgreSQLhelmetmulter
05Engineering
Engineering Decisions Behind the Website
The two decisions that shaped Hotel Aarohi, and why I made them. Each one solves a problem a real user would hit.
01
Built for the Search the Guest Actually Types
Most guests search for a hotel in the town they are travelling to. The site has a page for that search, a page for the restaurant’s Thakali food and a page about things to do nearby, each with its own title, description and structured data. That is local SEO done in the build, not after it.
02
Fast by Default
Static pages with no framework to download mean the site appears quickly on slow connections, and there is nothing to patch or pay for each month. For a hotel whose pages rarely change, that is cheaper and faster than a CMS. An SEO audit checks exactly this on sites that already exist.
SEO and Performance
Every page is written and marked up for the searches guests make, the same groundwork I set up alongside a Google Business Profile.
- A unique title and description on every page
- Hotel, opening hours, features and FAQ structured data
- Breadcrumbs marked up on every page
- A sitemap listing every page, including the local landing pages
- Clean URLs, plus robots and humans files
- No framework to download, so pages appear fast
06Screens
Hotel Aarohi on a Phone
Most guests find a hotel on their phone, often on mobile data, so the site was designed for that first.
07Status
Where Hotel Aarohi Stands Today
The Hotel Aarohi website is live at hotelaarohi.ujjwalrupakheti.com.np. The management prototype’s source is on GitHub.
Live
It is the kind of project most local businesses in Nepal need: a fast site, clear rooms and prices, easy booking and pages built for local search.
Related services
Need a Website Like Hotel Aarohi?
These are the services behind this case study. Each page lists prices, timelines and how I work, and every starting price is on my services page.
Every project, with its stack and status side by side, are in my web development portfolio, and the person behind them is on my about page.
FAQ: Hotel Aarohi Website
What the project included, what a hotel website costs and how it helps local search.
Ask me on WhatsAppWhat Did the Hotel Aarohi Website Project Include?
It included the design and build of a static website with pages for rooms, the restaurant, the gallery and a blog, a room catalogue with filters, booking enquiries from any page, local SEO landing pages with structured data, and a separate full-stack management prototype for rooms, bookings and customers.
How Much Does a Hotel Website Cost in Nepal?
A static hotel website like this starts from NPR 18,000 and takes 1 to 2 weeks. A larger site with a CMS you edit yourself starts from NPR 35,000. Domain and hosting are extra, though a static site like Hotel Aarohi’s can be hosted free on GitHub Pages.
How Do Guests Book a Room on the Site?
Guests filter rooms by Standard, Deluxe, Luxury and Suite and send a booking enquiry from a modal on any page. Enquiries go through Formspree and reach the hotel by email, and the phone number for bookings is always visible for guests who prefer to call.
How Does the Site Help the Hotel Rank in Local Search?
The site has landing pages for the searches guests make: the best hotel in Chandrapur, Thakali food in Chandrapur and things to do in Chandrapur. Each has its own title, description and structured data, and the whole site carries Hotel, opening hours, FAQ and breadcrumb markup.
Why Build a Static Website Instead of WordPress?
A static site with no framework to download appears quickly on slow rural connections, costs nothing to host on GitHub Pages and has nothing to patch each month. For a hotel that rarely changes its pages, that is cheaper. If you already run WordPress, read my WordPress SEO guide.
Can You Build a Website for My Hotel or Homestay?
Yes. I build hotel and homestay websites in Nepal with room catalogues, booking enquiries and local SEO pages, so guests find you when they search for a hotel in your town. See web development in Nepal for prices, or send me your hotel’s name for a fixed quote.
Want a Hotel Website That Gets Found?
I’ll Send a Fixed Quote.
Send a short note about your project and budget. I reply within one working day with questions or a first estimate.
Ujjwal RupakhetiReplies within one working day
What are you planning?
Opens WhatsApp with your message started.