Hotel Royal Spa

Hotel Royal Spa offers its guests a premium experience and has won various awards for the exceptional luxury and rich SPA treatment. The owner wanted to provide their most frequent and distinguished guests with special offers and make the application experience more luxurious. On top of that, our client didn't feel that the website reflects the quality of their offering. It offered scarce information on the actual services and amenities, and had many visual imperfections.

The hotel interior spaces inspired a palette of soft earth tones - champagne-toned paper for the application form, and a contrasting dark brown colour for the envelope. The utilitarian application form offers a hint of subdued luxury. The paper we selected has a slight roughness, that feels established and traditional, but at the same time - contemporary. The logo was finished using hot foil stamping that gives it not only texture, but also depth you can feel as you brush your finger across the envelope. The club identification card is the token given to members - it needs to be informative and sturdy. We experimented with a matte surface that minimises reflections, but at the expense of readability. In the end we agreed that form should follow function and used a glossy finish - even with some inevitable glare, text is still easier to read.

Since Hotel Royal Spa is located in a popular balneological resort, all nearby roads are decorated with billboards advertising the other hotels there. Our client has been renting a number of them for a long time, and current ads were very worn out. To help the hotel get noticed by people travelling in the region, we focused on displaying the rich interiors and SPA facilities, and helped get the new vinyls printed.

We studied the path visitors took when looking to book - they looked at accomodation options, went over the services and amenities, made a stop to check out current special offers, and finally looked for the contact information, if all other boxes were checked. The structure of the new website is a response to this behaviour, providing information and reassurance at every level. The owner wanted to push things further and provide a way for guests to book their stay directly from the website. Upon exploring this option, however, we discovered that most of them would prefer to just call and have hotel staff take care of the details, so instead we integrated a service that allows guests to make a free call directly from the website and book their stay.

Providing you with a comfortable experience regardless of the device you use requires specific optimisations. Information gets reordered and restructured as needed to remain accesible and legible whether you're on your computer, tablet, or phone.

We delivered a batch of 1 000 membership packages. They were immediately put to use and a few months later the marketing director at Hotel Royal Spa called asking us to place a second order, since they were quickly running out. Since the launch of the new website, we've received reports that hotel staff barely have time to do their jobs, because they constantly have to answer calls coming from the new website.