Booking.com Review Widget for OpenCart — Free, Shows the Reviews the Official Widget Hides
BlooTrue's Booking.com Review Widget for OpenCart is a free, extension-free embed that displays your Booking.com reviews on any OpenCart-built hotel site. Booking.com's official website widget only takes bookings — it books tables but never shows the reviews guests left for you. BlooTrue fills that gap by pulling reviews from any public Booking.com hotel page and turning them into a paste-ready OpenCart 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, no conversion, no percentages. OpenCart is a free, open-source PHP e-commerce platform widely used in MENA, Eastern Europe, and South-East Asia, and it ships with both a CMS Information system (Catalog → Information) and a bundled HTML Content module (Extensions → Modules) — BlooTrue pastes into either. No OpenCart marketplace purchase, no PHP edits, no Booking.com API key, no developer application, no hotel-account login required. Works on OpenCart 3.x (the dominant deployed version) and OpenCart 4.x with any theme. The single biggest install gotcha is the Source button (the </> toggle that switches the editor between WYSIWYG and raw HTML) — without clicking it, the visual editor escapes the embedded<script> tag and the widget disappears on save.
How to embed Booking.com reviews on OpenCart in 60 seconds
- Paste your Booking.com hotel 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.
- For a CMS page: open Catalog → Information, edit the page, click the Source button (
</>) in the editor toolbar, and paste. - For a sidebar / footer module: open Extensions → Modules, install HTML Content, paste in its Source view, and assign via Design → Layouts.
- Save — your Booking.com reviews are live on OpenCart 3.x or 4.x.
Why doesn't Booking.com's own widget show reviews?
Booking.com's first-party website widget is built for one job: taking bookings. It embeds a booking form, not your review feed — the verified-guest reviews stay on booking.com. Third-party widgets are the standard way OpenCart-built hotel sites surface their Booking.com reviews — BlooTrue is the free option in that category, and because every Booking.com review comes from a guest who honored a booking, the social proof it displays is unusually hard to fake.
