Mike Smith DesignThemes

Pilot

A five-page Astro theme for a small B&B or guesthouse: named rooms sold with photo galleries and character copy, an enquiry form with a native date picker, and an area guide. Built for B&Bs, guesthouses and small holiday lets.

See the live demoor buy it for £20

The Pilot home page
Pilot room page for The Lookout bedroom with price per night and a photo gallery button
Pilot hosts section introducing Ellen and Tom above a coastal banner with an Ask about dates button
Pilot local walks page listing three coastal routes beside photos of a flower lined cliff path
Pilot booking enquiry form alongside a Good to Know sidebar on check-in, breakfast and parking
Pilot on a phone

Six screens from the live demo. Scroll or step through.

Pilot is a five-page B&B theme, airy and photography-led, built for guests who book by asking rather than by widget. Three named rooms, each with a character paragraph, an "in the room" line and a photo gallery with lightbox, an enquiry form with native date inputs that preselects the room from a "Book This Room" link, an area guide for walks and eating, and a hover-grow room strip on the homepage.

Pilot is a bed and breakfast website template built with Astro, for developers and freelancers making sites for guesthouses and b&bs. Buy it once and use it on as many client projects as you like.

What you edit

  • site.json: business name, address, phone, email, colour pack, and the stay-page policy lines (check-in, breakfast, minimum stay, dogs, parking)
  • rooms.json: your rooms, prices, body copy, an "in the room" line and a photo gallery for each
  • area.json: walks from the door and two grouped eating blocks
  • public/img: your own photography

What is in it

  • Astro 7, zero frameworks, one global stylesheet
  • Lenis smooth scroll and sparing scroll-triggered reveals
  • Room gallery lightbox, enquiry form with room preselect and date guard, hover-grow room strip, all driven by JSON
  • Right-bleed hero image at every width
  • Four colour packs with a one-click switcher: thrift, harbour, sand and pebble
  • Fully responsive, respects prefers-reduced-motion, semantic HTML
  • Builds to pure static files, deploy free on Vercel, Netlify or GitHub Pages

Try it free first

The Pilot's House Lite is the free one page HTML cut of this theme: same design, no build step, no sign up. The full theme adds all 4 colour packs, the JSON data layer and the working parts above.


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