Sailing – Hotel WordPress Theme Overview
Sailing is a WordPress theme for accommodation businesses — hotels, hostels, resorts and guest houses — where taking reservations on your own site matters more than the brochure pages around them. The reservation side is not bolted on afterwards; the rest of the design is arranged around it.
The author is ThimPress, and the booking engine is the same company’s WP Hotel Booking plugin. From the WordPress dashboard you work with rooms, room types, occupancy limits, pricing plans, extra packages, coupons, customer records and a report view, and you can close off dates when a room should not be sold.
Around that sit the presentation pieces: Slider Revolution for headline slideshows, the SiteOrigin builder for arranging content by dragging blocks into place, prepared home page designs with one-click demo import, Contact Form 7 and MailChimp fields. WooCommerce is integrated and handles payment, and translation files with right-to-left support are included.
Key Features of Sailing – Hotel WordPress Theme
- WP Hotel Booking reservation system from ThimPress
- Rooms, room types and occupancy limits managed in the dashboard
- Pricing plans plus optional extra packages for guests
- Coupon creation and a booking report view
- Blocked dates for periods when a room cannot be sold
- Offline payment, Authorize.net, PayPal and Stripe gateways
- WooCommerce integration handling checkout and payment
- Slider Revolution and the SiteOrigin drag-and-drop builder
- Prepared home page designs with one-click demo import
- WPML compatibility, RTL support and 600+ Google fonts
Who Sailing – Hotel WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
Independent Canadian hotels, motels, inns, hostels, lodges and small resorts are the natural fit, particularly a property with a handful of room types that wants direct bookings instead of paying commission on every stay. Bed-and-breakfast operators and cottage owners renting a few units can use the same structure.
Larger operations running a channel manager or a property management system should check integration first: nothing in the listing describes synchronising availability with outside platforms, so rates and inventory are maintained here. Because WooCommerce carries the money, gift certificates or tours can sit in the same place.
Important Notes About Sailing – Hotel WordPress Theme
The listing publishes no changelog, so there is no dated release history; ask ThimPress which WordPress and PHP versions current builds are tested against. The demo count is stated inconsistently — five hotel demos in one place, eight home pages in another — so judge that by the live demo. The front end rests on Bootstrap 3, and the vendor’s search-ranking claims are marketing rather than measured results.
For a Canadian accommodation business the real work is in the wording. Deposits, cancellation windows, change fees and refund conditions belong on screen before a guest pays, and the rate shown should carry accommodation and municipal taxes. Short-term rental hosts face municipal registration in many cities, often with a licence number that must appear in listings, and condominium or lease restrictions may apply. Booking records are personal information, and the booking flow needs to work with a keyboard or a screen reader. The owner carries responsibility here; AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
You choose Sailing and buy its ThemeForest licence from ThimPress. AppiAppi installs the theme with WP Hotel Booking and WooCommerce, imports a demo as a starting frame, then replaces it with your property name, logo, colours and photographs.
We set up each room as structured content with its rates, occupancy, amenities and availability, configure extras and coupons, connect a payment gateway, and route enquiry and reservation messages to a mailbox somebody reads. Beyond launch, AppiAppi provides AI-assisted SEO and content support, applies updates, keeps backups and monitoring in place, and handles enquiries and bookings day to day under your subscription plan.
Original design by ThimPress. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source