Kosmos Lodge: booked direct.
Kosmos Lodge is a 7-room guesthouse in the Magaliesberg, looking over Hartbeespoort Dam. We built it a website in its own forest green that shows every room and gives guests a reason to book directly, not through an OTA.
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Pages designed & built
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Rooms, each with its own page
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Local attraction guides
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Commission on direct enquiries
Most bookings paid Booking.com a commission.
Kosmos Lodge is a 7-room guesthouse on the mountainside in Kosmos Village, above Hartbeespoort Dam. Most bookings came through platforms like Booking.com, which take a cut of every one.
The brief: a website as good as the lodge, with the rooms and the story up front, and a reason for guests to book directly.
Before and after.
Page for page, the old site against the one we built. The old one was a free template made for education events. These are from the Internet Archive’s copy, which kept its pages but not its images, so its logo is missing.
Home
Contact
Forest emerald, brushed gold and a bush baby logo.
We started from the lodge's logo, a hand-drawn bush baby from the Kosmos Village bush, and built the colours out from it: forest emerald for the brand, brushed gold for labels and details, warm charcoal sections and soft cream panels.
Headings pair engraved Roman capitals with a serif, and a plain sans carries the reading. Every section has one job: to show guests the quality of the place before they arrive.
Every page leads to an enquiry.
Nothing came from a template. Every layout was drawn for Kosmos Lodge.
7 individual room pages
Each room has its own page with photos, amenities and an enquiry link, so guests see exactly what they're booking.
Direct enquiry system
An enquiry form beside the lodge’s details and nightly rates, with WhatsApp and email one tap away.
Explore & attractions
Seven attraction pages, from the waterfront to the cableway and the elephant sanctuary, each linking back to the lodge.
Built for phones
A simple menu and a booking bar that stays on screen, with the nightly rate, a call button and Book Now on WhatsApp.
Local SEO
Structured data, canonical tags and location-targeted copy for searches like "Hartbeespoort guesthouse" and "dam view lodge".
Reviews & guest questions
The lodge’s Google rating and guest reviews on the homepage, with an FAQ that covers where it is, what it costs and which rooms have the dam view.
Designed for the guest who books on their phone.
Most people look for a place to stay on their phone, often while they plan the weekend. So we designed for the phone first. A booking bar sits at the bottom of every screen and reaches the lodge by WhatsApp or a call in one tap.
Bookings that come straight to the lodge.
Guests who find kosmoslodge.co.za reach the owners through the form or WhatsApp. There is no platform in between and no commission to pay.
Before they send a message, guests already know the rooms, the pool, the view, what's nearby and what they'll pay.
The owner says enquiries and bookings went up as soon as the site went live.
Our new website made a real difference. We instantly started getting noticeably more enquiries and many more bookings than before. I highly recommend Clevex and we’re definitely planning to continue working with them.
