Ciestra Resort theme for WordPress has its all to welcome the travellers with an outstanding website and better property rates. Whether you rent out a mountain villa or dozens of suites in a beachfront resort, this theme is perfectly suitable.

Fully dedicated to lodging business, Ciestra offers a perfect uncluttered design and a variety of on-demand content modules: a structured directory of properties, amenities & services gallery, clear contact and location info, Instagram gallery, guest reviews and more.

MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin is included in the theme package and enhances your website with the booking functionality.

Ciestra Resort Theme Highlights:

Ciestra - Resort WordPress Theme

Ciestra: A journey to the heart of your hotel & resort brand

Responsive design, the all-around property booking system packaged for free, tailored for needs of modern travelers. Brought to you by MotoPress – the lodging business WordPress experts.

For Hotels, Resorts and Villas

Featuring vibrant and elegant design, Ciestra is just perfect for beachfront hotels and resort accommodations. Add all your listings with amenities, bed types, sleeping arrangements, pricing and more categorized details. Rent out unlimited properties with no commission.

Accommodation Booking System

Ciestra resort theme is powered by our custom plugin – the popular WordPress reservation system. It’s a built-in powerhouse for all your bookings, properties directory, seasonal prices, rates and the whole array of tools for lodging business. The premium room & property booking plugin is included for free!

Beautiful Galleries & Slideshows

Keep your website up-to-date with what guests want: provide helpful info about nearby bars and attractions, services, landscapes, events and more.

The theme is equipped with unique, easily editable Elementor content modules for creating a perfect pre-vacation experience for your guests.

Sync Bookings to OTAs like Airbnb, Booking, Google Calendar etc.

Don’t miss on other popular listing websites! Rent out the properties elsewhere and sync bookings to your independent website built with Ciestra. No need for paid for channel managers, no commissions.

The reservation system is able to automatically sync your hotel bookings to external OTAs via iCal (make sure the medium platform supports iCal).

Prepayment or Pay at the Property

You are free to enable guests to pay online safely a full or deposit price (fixed / percentage) or charge them after arrival.

There are several out-of-the-box payment gateways you can enable: PayPal, 2Checkout, Stripe, Braintree and Beanstream/Bambora. A user-friendly Pro add-on is available for more gateways.

Weekly and Monthly Rates

Need to set up a complex & dynamic pricing system? Set custom rates for peak seasons. Discount your hotel rooms or other resort accommodations automatically for a longer stay with weekly, monthly or other customizable rates. Designate price variables based on the room’s capacity. Any rate and pricing is easily tunable.

Simple & Advanced Booking Rules

For each property and season you can set up min / max days to stay, available check-in and check-out dates, block chosen units for a certain period of time and more.

Availability calendars of all properties will display available and unavailable days in real time according to your rules.

Free & Paid Bookable Extras

An easy way to entice guests to buy more extras along with the property bookings: offer extra packages and services and eventually find a bigger sum in every check!

Set the price per accommodation / guest; once or per night. You can also offer free services that must be booked in advance.

Created with Elementor Builder

One of the main strengths of this Booking website template is 100% user-friendly customization: tune in every piece of Ciestra with Elementor visual page builder and other WordPress tools.

Intuitive drag-and-drop content manipulation, inline editing and more things non-tech users love.

Instagram Gallery

Lots of marketing studies show that people explicitly use Instagram to choose travel destinations or plan vacations.

With Ciestra, you can focus on image storytelling with a lightweight and beautiful Instagram gallery that automatically displays a feed of your latest Instagram uploads.

Import Sample Data in One Click

Unlike many other WordPress themes for hotels, Ciestra is absolutely easy on installation & getting started thanks to dummy data that you can import in one click.

The data importer is packed with the theme allowing you to replace sample info with your custom content with no hassle.

Our premium MotoPress Hotel Booking plugin, one of the most recognizable WordPress plugin for rentals, is included into the theme for free (save $49). It will help you use the all-around property management system and the booking system in one place.

You’ll find it easy to designate different booking rules, add pricing rates depending on the number of people and the length of stay, accept instant online payments, keep track on all bookings and guests and more.

If you list your properties elsewhere, the built-in channel manager will help you connect your independent website to medium travel platforms, without any upfront or further commission. Thanks to iCal support, you can import reservations from your Airbnb, HomeAway or similar calendars and export them back to the OTAs that support iCal. The system will establish two-way auto sync to help you avoid overbooking.

Tune in the theme appearance with Elementor builder, edit the site via the WordPress Customizer, import sample data in once click – Ciestra Resort theme sets you up with user-friendly customization kits.

More about Ciestra Resort WordPress theme:

Best design practices for streamlined and automated property booking experience
Fast-loading and lightweight
Visual content editing with Elementor
Social media icons integration
Multiple menu locations
Testimonials slider
Unique Amenities&Services slider
Full-width / with sidebar page templates
Customizable navigation menus
SVG support
Contact form 7
HTML5 & CSS3 & latest WP standards
SEO Optimized markup
Tech support: ticket system, live chat and email
Fully documented.

More features of the built-in WordPress reservation system:

Premium MotoPress WordPress Booking plugin included for free
Real-time search availability form with editable fields
Availability calendars
Packages and services
Flexible booking rules
Manual and automatic booking confirmation
Automatic reservation notifications for guests and admin
Discount coupons
Taxes and fees management
iCal support to sync bookings across OTAs
Dashboard bookings calendar
Adding booking from the backend
Booking multiple units by one guest
Complete bookings statistic and payment history
Multiple currencies
Translated into 14 languages
Ability to add more region-specific payment gateways with WooCommerce add-on [not included into the theme]
Send payment reminder via the Payment Request Addon [not included into the theme]

Ciestra WordPress rental theme is an easy solution to manage one accommodation for rent or a single room in a hotel. For creating a single property, the search form should be changed to the booking form while setting up accommodation on the homepage.

That is exactly why Ciestra can be used equally well as a multipurpose hotel booking template, vacation rental and resort theme, or serve as a basis for apartment rental and real estate WordPress sites.

So even if your hospitality business alters its concept or scale, the flexibility of Ciestra WordPress rental theme will let it evolve and transform along with the changes.

Changelog

= 1.8.0, Jun 26 2025 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 5.2.3.
* Added support for the Hotel Booking Accommodation-Based Payments add-on.
* Added the ability to limit search results based on the requested number of guests.
* Added the ability to create discount coupons specifically for services and fees. Note new and updated columns in CSV reports.
* Extended the list of countries that can accept payments via Klarna (Stripe).
* Added the "DTSTAMP" property to calendar export of blocking rules.
* Added the ability to sync bookings with buffer times included.
* Added the ability to remember the chosen guest count until checkout page.
* Added more options for the price format.
* Added the ability to create annually repeated seasons.
* Added the ability to export bookings imported from external platforms to CSV reports.
* Added a user-friendly option to select accommodation types in the WordPress block editor.
* Added the ability to sort seasons by the start and end date. Now they are sorted by date by default.
* Added the ability to easily change the order of the rates to set their priority.
* Improved the Booking Details page to show all associated payments, not just the last one.
* Improved compatibility with WordPress 6.8, addressing the _load_textdomain_just_in_time notice.
* Improved calendar synchronization to accurately reflect the entire blocking duration.
* Improved tooltips in the calendar date picker.
* Improved the import of ongoing bookings from external channels.
* Improved the way to customize rates based on the number of extra guests.
* Improved the display of the season dates in the table of rates.
* Improved the display of booking rules in different calendar themes.
* Optimized an admin booking calendar URL for easier sharing.
* Fixed an issue with annual season rules overriding the minimum stay setting.
* Resolved several issues related to site timezone settings.
* Fixed an issue where coupons were not applied correctly in languages other than English on the checkout page.
* Fixed an issue with the extra guest fee calculation in search results for entries exceeding accommodation capacity.
* Minor bugfixes and improvements.

= 1.7.1, Jan 06 2025 =
* Ciestra Engine plugin updated to version 0.0.6.

= 1.7.0, Jun 18 2024 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.11.2.
* Added the ability to link selected accommodations, enabling automatic blocking of linked accommodations when one is booked.
* Added hooks for overwriting prices in the core API.
* Improved calendar loading speed.
* Upgraded Stripe to the new API, added Klarna, and removed the retiring SOFORT payment method.
* Fixed time zone issues.
* Fixed an issue with serializeJSON() at checkout.
* Fixed an issue where blocked dates for linked accommodations weren't displaying in the admin calendar.
* Fixed a cost calculation issue for properties with variable pricing during search and booking.
* Fixed an issue with adding a rate through REST API.
* Fixed an issue with setting priority for booking rules.
* Fixed an issue with retrieving booked services data in the REST API.
* Fixed an issue where higher-priority booking rules in the list were not overriding lower-priority ones.
* Fixed an issue where the Klarna payment method was still displayed as an option within Stripe even if it was disabled in the plugin settings.
* Fixed an issue with applying 'not stay-in' booking rules and loading availability calendar data.
* Removed whitespace characters from AJAX requests.

= 1.6.0, Feb 15 2024 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.8.8.
* Significant revamp of the Direct Bank Transfer method has been made. Bookings made using this method now have a default status of "Pending Payment". You can set a time frame for customers to pay their bookings, and if payment is not received within that timeframe, the booking will automatically become "Abandoned". You can create an email template with instructions for this payment method; please do so in the payment method settings.
* Restricted the possibility to cancel booking after the check-in date has passed.
* Changed 'adults' to 'guests' for services in email notifications when the children field is disabled in the plugin settings.
* Added the accommodation title tag to the reserved accommodation details email template in the email settings.
* Added "Pending Admin" and "Pending Payment" statuses to the iCal export.
* Added the possibility to set the booking status to 'Confirmed' or 'Pending admin' when creating a new booking in the admin area.
* Added the ability to change a default display range on the admin bookings calendar.
* Added year information to the check-in and check-out dates in the Bookings table.
* Added customer name information to the booking details in the admin bookings calendar.
* Fixed an issue with viewing booking information in the admin calendar.
* Fixed an issue where the check-out calendar would clear when the check-in calendar was opened in the booking form.
* Fixed an issue that prevented notes from being saved when creating a booking via REST API.
* Fixed an issue with displaying the availability calendar for 12 months.
* Fixed an issue where booking rules were being applied to reservations added via the backend.
* Fixed an issue with the incorrect display of the 12 months' availability in calendar of individual accommodation.
* Fixed an issue with sending emails in languages that use RTL writing systems.
* Fixed an issue with PayPal in a sandbox mode.
* Fixed an issue with caching search availability calendar's data.
* Fixed an issue with custom checkout fields that were not exported to the CSV report.
* Fixed an error of incorrect calculation of accommodation subtotal price in the CSV report.
* Fixed an issue with changing capacity on the checkout page when the Stripe gateway encountered errors.
* Fixed an issue with deleting imported bookings with a past check-in date.
* Fixed an issue of applying the current rates to the old booking to ensure the accurate pricing in exported reports.
* Fixed an issue that could cause error messages to appear in the direct booking form on certain websites.
* Fixed an issue that could cause warning messages to appear in .ics files on certain websites.
* Fixed an error with displaying a user account when switched to a non-default website language.
* Bug fix: The plugin now takes the property capacity into account when guests choose the number of adults and children while making bookings directly from the accommodation page. This fix applies only if the property capacity is set in the settings.
* Improved calendar styles of the search and booking forms, and added booking note tooltips to the datepicker.
* Improved calendar compatibility with page caching plugins.
* Improved calendar loading speed.
* Improved date selection in the search form to display the checkout-out date month corresponding to the selected check-in date.
* Improved the process of handling downloads of the exported bookings.
* Improvement: The plugin now retains past bookings imported from external sources instead of deleting them.
* Booking calendar improvements: search and booking forms display blocked and booked dates for a better user experience.
* Enhanced code and WPML compatibility.
* Minor style improvements.

= 1.5.3, Feb 28 2023 =
* Minor style improvements.

= 1.5.2, Feb 10 2023 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.6.0.
* Added the possibility for clients to select the check-in and check-out date directly in the availability calendar.
* Added an error message to the booking form to notify clients when an accommodation ID is not found.
* Added coupon settings for early bird and last minute discounts.
* Added the possibility to view the information about imported bookings in the admin calendar after clicking on a particular booking.
* Added the price display in the availability calendar for non check-in dates.
* Limited the number of adults and children selectable in the form to match an accommodation’s capacity for bookings directly from the accommodation page.
* Removed the maximum limit for the adults and children capacity in the variable pricing rate settings.
* Fixed a database bug related to customer and user data selection.
* Fixed an issue with assigning an accommodation type upon the accommodation creation.
* Fixed an issue with calculating prices in the availability calendars for overlapping seasons.
* Improved the plugin compatibility with PHP 8.2.
* Minor style improvements.

= 1.5.1, Jan 17 2023 =
* Improved compatibility with PHP 8.

= 1.5.0, Dec 5 2022 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.5.0.
* Added support for displaying prices in the availability calendars of individual accommodations.
* Added the ability to create a percentage fee, which applies to the accommodation cost.
* Improved the color-coding for dates in the availability calendar to better show days unavailable for check-in or check-out. Note for developers: This update might affect styles of the availability calendar in your themes or projects. Please update your code.
* Improved the color-coding for dates in the admin calendar to better show booked and blocked days.
* Fixed an issue with selecting a check-out day on a day that is not allowed to stay.
* Fixed an issue with the session data security.
* Optimized the asset loading in the admin panel for REST API.
* Fixed an error of creating coupon codes in REST API.
* Fixed an error with the availability search when one of the accommodations was blocked. Applies for REST API and the mobile app.
* Minor style improvements.

= 1.4.0, Sep 13 2022 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 4.4.1.
* Implemented REST API. This will give developers more extensive control over the plugin data, help integrate third-party services, and build new frontend experiences for Hotel Booking in WordPress.
* Added the new Hotel Manager and Hotel Worker user roles that define access to the Hotel Booking plugin settings and menus. Note: you might need to change user roles you used before this update.
* Added the user area for customers that allows them to log in, view bookings and speed up reservations with pre-populated info at checkout. Website admins can set the plugin to create user accounts automatically or let customers create ones manually.
* Improved booking export report.
* Improved backend booking calendar.
* Improved support for several Hotel Booking addons.
* Fixed several translation related issues.
* Fixed an issue with dates being available for selection while direct booking despite not check-in or not check-out booking rules are applied to certain accommodation types.
* Fixed an issue with defining the number of blocked accommodation types within certain booking rules.
* Fixed an issue with the maximum stay rule of specific accommodation type that was also applied to other accommodation types.
* Minor bugfixes and improvements.
* Minor style improvements.

= 1.3.4, Sep 24 2021 =
* Added the Stratum – Elementor Widgets plugin to the theme package.
* Added the Hotel Booking & Elementor Integration plugin to the theme package.

= 1.3.3, Aug 10 2021 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.9.10.
* New feature: added the option to display information about tax and fee charges additionally to the base property rate on the frontend.
* New feature: the revenue chart (beta version).
* Added a new payment status Canceled.
* Added the ability to enable a two-step booking cancelation process that requires users to confirm their booking cancelation request on the external page.
* Added the ability to disable booking rules when adding bookings on the backend manually.
* Added a new color for the external bookings in the Bookings calendar.
* Improved the user experience with the calendar datepicker on mobile devices.
* Fixed an issue with displaying the number of bookings for secondary language versions in the WPML plugin.
* Added the ability to sort accommodations by price in the accommodations listing.
* Minor style improvements.

= 1.3.2, Mar 18 2021 =
* Added the ability to turn on a sticky menu.
* Added the "back to top" button.
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.9.5.
* Added the ability to set the Booking Buffer option.
* Added the ability to set Advance Reservation: the minimum number of days allowed before booking and the maximum number of days available for future bookings.
* Added the ability to resend the confirmation email for a booking.
* Added the ability to create internal notes for a booking visible for site admins only.
* Added the ability to edit existing bookings: you can now update check-in and check-out dates, rates, services, etc., as well as add, replace, or remove accommodations in the original bookings.
* Added the ability to set the number of days prior to the check-in date applicable for applying deposits.
* Stripe API updated to version 7.72.0.
* Improved compatibility with the image lazy-loading feature.
* Bug fix: fixed an issue that may cause errors in Sucuri and WP Mail SMTP plugins.
* Bug fix: fixed an issue with payments via Stripe when amount of transaction was not calculated properly.
* Bug fix: fixed an issue when an accommodation became unavailable for assignment to its accommodation type after renaming.
* Minor bugfixes and improvements.

= 1.3.1, Aug 31 2020 =
* Added theme support for Stratum plugin - collection of 20+ advanced Elementor widgets with extensive functionality.

= 1.3.0, Nov 19 2019 =
* Minor bugfixes and improvements.
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.7.1.
* Improved blocks compatibility with the new versions of the Gutenberg editor.
* Added customer email address to the Stripe payment details.
* Fixed an issue where the price breakdown was not displayed in the new booking emails.
* Fixed an issue at checkout when coupon discount was not applied to the total price at the bottom of the page.
* Fixed a bug concerning impossibility to complete Stripe payment after applying the coupon code.
* Fixed an issue where the type of the coupon code was changed after its use.
* Improved the "Booking Confirmed" page with regard to displaying information on client's booking and payment in case the booking is paid online. Follow the prompts to update the content of the "Booking Confirmed" page automatically or apply the changes manually.
* Added the new email tag, which allows guests to visit their booking details page directly from the email. Important: you need to update your email templates to start using this functionality.
* New actions and filters were added for developers.
* Fixed the issue at checkout when a variable price was not applied if capacity is disabled in plugin settings.
* Added Direct Bank Transfer as a new payment gateway.
* Added the ability to delete ical synchronization logs automatically.
* Added new intervals for importing bookings through the ical "Quarter an Hour" and "Half an Hour".
* The user information is no longer required while creating a booking in the admin panel. You can enable it again in the settings.
* Added new tags for email templates: Price Breakdown, Country, State, City, Postcode, Address, Full Guest Name.
* Added the ability to select the accommodation type while duplicating rates.
* Improvement: now if the accommodation type size is not set, the field will not be displayed on the website.
* Implemented bookings synchronization with Expedia travel booking website.
* Updated PayPal and Stripe payment integrations to comply with PSD2 and the SCA requirements.
* Added the ability to receive payments through Bancontact, iDEAL, Giropay, SEPA Direct Debit and SOFORT payment gateways via the updated Stripe API.

= 1.2.3, Jul 10 2019 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.5.1.
* Major improvements on booking synchronization with online channels via iCal interface.
* Added the ability to export bookings data in the CSV format.

= 1.2.2, Apr 15 2019 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.3.0.
* Improved compatibility with WPML plugin.
* Fixed the bug appeared while calculating the subtotal amount in Price Breakdown when a discount code is applied.
* Added Hotel Booking Extensions page. Developers may opt-out of displaying this page via "mphb_show_extension_links" filter.
* Booking Calendar improvements:
* Tooltip extended with the customer data: full name, email, phone, guests number, imported bookings info.
* Added a popup option to display the detailed booking information.
* Bookings table improvements:
* Added a column with booked accommodations.
* Added the ability to filter bookings by accommodation type.
* Added the ability to search bookings by First Name, Last Name, Check-in Date, Check-out Date, Phone, Price, etc.
* Added a Service option that enables to specify the number of times guest would like to order this service.

= 1.2.0, Feb 12 2019 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.1.0.
* Added new blocks to Gutenberg.
* Added option to switch to the new block editor for Accommodation Types and Services in plugin settings.
* Added option to set the Price Breakdown to be unfolded by default.
* Improved design of Accommodation titles in Price Breakdown for better user experience.
* Added styles for Hotel Booking Reviews addon.
* Added the ability to change copyright text in footer.
* Added the ability to change primary theme colors.

= 1.1.0, Jan 14 2019 =
* Added theme support for WordPress 5.0 (Gutenberg).
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.0.3.

= 1.0.0, Sep 18 2018 =
* Hotel Booking plugin updated to version 3.0.0:
* Introducing attributes. By using the attributes you are able to define extra accommodation data such as location and type and use these attributes in the search availability form as advanced search filters.
* Improved the way to display the booking rules in the availability calendar.
* Added the new payment method to pay on arrival.
* Added the ability to create fixed amount coupon codes.
* Added the availability to send multiple emails to notify the administrator and other staff about new booking.
* Fixed the bug appeared in the Braintree payment method if a few plugins for making payment are set up.
* Added the ability to set the default country on the checkout page.

= 0.1.0, Aug 20 2018 =
* Initial release.

Ciestra WordPress Theme