Booking.com Review Widget for Blogger — Free, Shows What the Official Widget Won't
BlooTrue's Booking.com Review Widget for Blogger is a free embed that displays your Booking.com guest reviews on any Blogger blog (.blogspot.com or custom-domain) via the Layout HTML/JavaScript gadget or by switching a post to HTML view. Booking.com's official website widget only takes bookings — it books tables but never displays reviews. The Blogger HTML/JavaScript Layout gadget is the cleanest way to surface a hotel's Booking.com reviews on a blog, and BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Booking.com hotel page and turning them into a paste-ready Blogger embed. Every review comes from a verified guest — someone who booked through Booking.com and honored the booking — and the widget header shows your real 1–5 star Booking.com average with no conversion. The Blogger free plan supports this fully — there is no upgrade, no premium tier, and no third-party Blogger app store install because Blogger has no marketplace. The Layout gadget approach places the widget sitewide (sidebar / footer / header) in one paste and avoids the editor-state quirk where Bloggers Compose view can auto-escape pasted HTML when you toggle back from HTML view. The inline post-HTML approach is for cases where you only want reviews to appear inside one specific article — paste while in HTML view, save from HTML view, then view the live post. Schema.org Review + AggregateRating JSON-LD is added on top of Bloggers stock theme schema (Article, BlogPosting) — cleanly, without conflict — giving your blog two independent structured-data signals on the same page.
How to embed Booking.com reviews on Blogger in 60 seconds
- Paste your Booking.com hotel page URL (https://www.booking.com/hotel/your-hotel) into the configurator above.
- Pick a widget style and customize colors, theme, and layout.
- Click Copy Code to get the one-line HTML embed.
- Sitewide: open blogger.com → Layout, click Add a Gadget, choose HTML/JavaScript, paste the embed code, and click Save.
- Inline post: open Posts → Edit, switch from Compose to HTML view, paste in the post body, save and view from HTML view directly.
Why doesn't Booking.com's official widget show reviews on Blogger?
Booking.com's first-party website widget is built to do one thing: take bookings. It books tables, but it never displays the verified-guest reviews your hotel has earned. Booking.com does not publish a paste-ready review embed the way Trustpilot publishes TrustBox or Google publishes Place Cards. Third-party widgets pasted into Bloggers HTML/JavaScript Layout gadget are the standard way Blogger-based hotel blogs surface their Booking.com reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category.
