Booking.com Review Widget for Joomla — Free, Shows the Reviews the Official Widget Won't
BlooTrue's Booking.com Review Widget for Joomla is a free, extension-free embed that displays your Booking.com reviews on any Joomla hotel site. Booking.com's official website widget only takes bookings — it never displays the verified-guest reviews your hotel earns; those stay on booking.com. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Booking.com hotel page and turning them into a paste-ready Joomla embed. Every review comes from a verified guest who booked through Booking.com and honored the booking, and the widget shows your real 1–5 star average exactly as it appears upstream. Works on Joomla 3, Joomla 4, and Joomla 5 via the built-in Custom HTML module type, with the default Cassiopeia template (J4/J5), the older Protostar template (J3), and any third-party template. No Joomla Extensions Directory install, no per-month fee, no Booking.com API key required.
How to embed Booking.com reviews on Joomla 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.
- Open Content → Site Modules (J4/J5) or Extensions → Modules (J3), click + New, choose Custom, click Toggle Editor to switch to HTML, and paste.
- Set the Position (e.g.
position-7) and Menu Assignment, then Save.
Why doesn't Booking.com's own widget show reviews?
Booking.com's first-party widget is built to do one thing: book tables. It embeds a booking form, not social proof — the guest reviews that convince someone to book stay on booking.com. Booking.com does not publish a paste-ready review embed the way Trustpilot publishes TrustBox or Google publishes Place Cards. Third-party widgets are the standard way Joomla hotel sites surface their Booking.com reviews on their own pages — BlooTrue is the free option in that category.
