Terrassenhotel Edertal: a new website for a hotel on the Edersee

What was needed

The Terrassenhotel Edertal is a hotel with a restaurant on the Edersee in Germany. The old website ran on WordPress with Elementor and no longer suited the hotel. The wish was a more modern and more luxurious look, with the surroundings and the lake clearly in view.

The hotel already works with its own booking system. So the website did not need to take bookings itself, but it had to convince guests and then bring them to that system as directly as possible. The hotel also wanted to see which steps guests take on the site.

What we built

• A custom website in Next.js, in German and English, with a light and a dark theme.
• Pages for the rooms, the restaurant, events, day trips in the area and packages.
• Clear buttons to the hotel's booking engine, without building that engine into the site. That way the hotel keeps a single place where bookings come in.
• A contact form delivered through Resend.
• A custom cookie banner with Consent Mode. Google Analytics, Google Ads and the Meta pixel only measure after the visitor has given consent.
• Tracking for opening the booking screen, calling and the contact form, so the hotel can see which pages lead to a next step.
• Hosting on Vercel, with the hotel photos in Cloudflare R2 on a dedicated media domain.

Technology

• Next.js
• Tailwind CSS
• next-intl
• Vercel
• Cloudflare R2
• Resend
• Google Tag Manager
• Google Analytics
• Google Search Console

Afterwards

After the launch we set up Google Ads: a search campaign for the Edersee and a Christmas campaign. We adjust the search terms based on what comes in.

The Google Business Profile links to the new site, and on social media a post with the hotel's own photos appears on a regular schedule.

Services in this project

• Website design
• Google Ads management