Coco Bungo
Boutique resort booking. +65% direct bookings.
Coco Bungo is a boutique resort in Costa Rica, and Eyal Gantz designed and built its direct booking website as designer and developer over about eight weeks. The resort was competing with Airbnb and Booking.com for its own guests, paying significant commission on bookings that could have come direct, and it needed a site that captured the magic of a jungle resort experience while giving visitors a reason to book on the property's own terms. Gantz designed and built a beautiful multi-language Laravel site with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js, an integrated booking calendar with calendar sync, and Stripe payments carrying the transaction end to end. The result is a direct booking channel that competes with the online travel agencies instead of depending on them: direct bookings rose 65 percent, revenue rose 30 percent on reduced OTA fees, and guests rate the booking experience at 4.9 stars.
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What problem did Coco Bungo have?
Competing with Airbnb and Booking.com while capturing the magic of a jungle resort experience.
How did Eyal solve it?
Designed and built a stunning multi-language Laravel site with integrated booking calendar and Stripe payments.
What were the results?
"Our new website captures the magic of Coco Bungo perfectly. More importantly, guests now book directly with us, which has significantly improved our margins."
Owner | Coco Bungo Resort