City Hostel | Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme Overview
City Hostel is aimed squarely at budget and shared accommodation: youth and student hostels, guest houses, inns and motels, with the vendor extending it to villas, lodges and bed and breakfasts. A rooms catalogue presents each type in turn.
axiomthemes is the author, and the build follows that studio’s house pattern. WPBakery Page Builder arranges pages, headers and footers alike, while a bundled addons plugin supplies the extra content types, widgets and shortcodes. Slider Revolution, Essential Grid and Swiper ship under the theme licence.
Reservations are handled by a bundled appointment plugin rather than a property management system: enquiry and booking forms with a date-and-time picker, feeding requests through to you. Underneath sits an option-heavy framework with several hundred Customizer settings, a setting inheritance and override system, Ajax search, and boxed or full-width page layouts.
Key Features of City Hostel | Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme
- WPBakery Page Builder extending to header and footer layouts
- Bundled appointment and calendar plugin for reservation requests
- Premade room and accommodation pages with a catalogue view
- Slider Revolution, Essential Grid and Swiper included under licence
- Several hundred Customizer options with inheritance and override
- Custom post types, widgets and shortcodes via the addons plugin
- Interactive Ajax search across site content
- Multiple blog styles with post views, likes, sharing and related posts
- Boxed and full-width layouts with flexible colour and typography
- Separate user and main menus, plus Fontello and image icons
Who City Hostel | Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
Canadian hostels, student and youth accommodation, backpacker houses, guest houses, small inns and motels are the clear fit, especially a property mixing dormitory beds with a few private rooms. The catalogue structure copes with both without forcing them into one template.
Seasonal lodges, ski-town bunkhouses and bed and breakfasts can use it equally well. Where it strains is scale: a property needing live availability across channels, dynamic pricing or per-bed inventory will want a dedicated reservation platform behind the site rather than a form.
Important Notes About City Hostel | Travel & Hotel Booking WordPress Theme
Maintenance is current: version 1.2.7 was published on 17 September 2026, and a February 2026 release closed a potential file-inclusion vulnerability, which is a solid argument for staying on the latest build. Note too that the appointment plugin named in the description’s compatibility list was swapped for a different calendar plugin in early 2024, so confirm on the live demo which one you are actually getting.
Selling shared accommodation carries obligations no template can settle. Occupancy limits, fire and life-safety requirements, house rules, minimum age policies, and exactly what a private room includes as against a dormitory bed belong in plain words on the page, because that is where disputes begin. Alongside them sit deposits and cancellation terms stated before payment, accommodation and municipal taxes inside the displayed rate, municipal registration where short-term letting rules apply, an accessible booking flow, and guest records held as personal information. Compliance here belongs to the property owner, not to AppiAppi.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
You select City Hostel and buy the licence from axiomthemes on ThemeForest. AppiAppi installs it with WPBakery and the bundled plugins, imports the demo, then rebuilds it around your property name, colours, photography and house information.
Dormitories, private rooms and facilities become structured entries with rates per bed or per night, capacity, amenities and galleries, and house rules sit where guests read them before booking. We configure the reservation form, deposit handling and confirmation emails, and route enquiries to a monitored inbox. Thereafter AppiAppi provides AI-assisted SEO and content support, updates seasonal rates, applies theme and plugin updates with backups, and handles booking correspondence under your subscription.
Original design by axiomthemes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source