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The peculiarity of creating self-operated accommodations is that you can have multiple contracts for the same hotel with different suppliers. So you can create one description of the hotel and link it with multiple contracts. It is shown on the following picture and influences the process of accommodation creation (as described below in the following sections).
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Creating a New Accommodation
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On the Room types and meal types tab, in the Room types group, click Create. The New room window appears:
Enter the necessary information:
Name: full name of a room type as provided by a hotel (for example, Double Standard Room, Double Deluxe Room, Family Sea View).
Accommodation: the allocation of guests a room is suitable for (for example, Single or Double).
Category: the category of the room (for example, Standard or Deluxe, etc.)
Short description: brief description of a room type. It will be shown in the search results.
Description: detailed description of a room type. It will be shown in the separate window with room details.
Room capacity: the boxes in the group are filled in by default when you select accommodation type (e.g. for a single room it will be specified that there is 1 main bed within it; for a double room there are 2 main beds, etc.), but you can specify the number of available main beds, extra beds and sharing places manually. It is possible to add the number of bedrooms and the number of bathrooms in the Capacity and beds section. The information on the number of bedrooms and the number of bathrooms you can also see in reservation.
While creating your own hotel, you can specify the acceptable number of guests: children and adults separately. Also, for children, you can specify the age.
Bed types: specify the bed types that are available in the room (if supplier provides this information). Click the option of your choice. It is possible to add multiple bed types in each of block (basic and alternate). In case of added settings on bed types (both basic and alternate) information will be displayed in created reservation.
Room services: select the room services that are available for the room type.
Click Save.
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On the Room and meal types tab, in the meal types group, click Create. The New board type window appears:
In the window, fill in the required information:
Name: enter the name of the meal type as it is specified by hotel (e.g. “Vegetarian Breakfast”)
Type: select the meal type from the drop-down
Default: select the default check box to apply the meal type under configuration as default.
Description: locate mouse pointer into the Short description and Description boxes and enter the meal type description.
Click Save and click Close.
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On the Sport, leisure and kids services tab, in the required group, click Create.
Let us consider an example of adding a restaurant. The New restaurant window appears:
Enter the necessary information into the form:
Name: name of the facility
Type: type of the facility: restaurant or coffee-shop
Location: where a restaurant is located: inside the hotel or near it
Cuisine: type of the cuisine: for example, European, oriental, etc
Short description: a couple of phrases about the restaurant
Description: more detailed information about the restaurant
Click Save.
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