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Polaris: A Website Template for Tour Operators, Homestays and Camps

Polaris is an Astro travel website template for tour operators, homestays, lodges and camps, with trip and stay finders, itineraries with an altitude profile, departures and enquiries.

By Shail2 min read

The Polaris home page: the headline "Walk above the clouds" over a mountain sunrise, with a trip search bar

Before anyone books a trek or a room in the mountains, they ask the same questions. Where is it? When is the best time to go? How hard is it? And where will I sleep: is there a road, power, a phone signal? Most travel websites bury those answers, or leave them out.

Polaris is a website theme for tour operators, homestays, lodges and camps, built around exactly those questions.

Answers travellers look for

Every trip has a trail grade, a season chart and a day-by-day itinerary with an altitude profile. Departures show the seats left and whether a date is open, filling up or full. Stay pages say plainly how you get there, what the power is like and where the phone works, along with the rooms, prices, house rules and the host.

A Polaris trip itinerary, Day by day, up and over, with an altitude profile that peaks at Shang Sumdo and the first days listed below
Each trip has a day-by-day itinerary with an altitude profile.

The design reads like a field atlas, with coordinates, contour lines and a ridge-line edge, in calm alpine colours.

A Polaris departures list: five dates from June to September 2027, each with the seats left, a status, a $890 price and a Request button
Each departure shows the seats left and its status.

Built for enquiries

Every trip and stay page has a booking box. Travellers pick a departure and package, or dates and a room, and press Request. The enquiry form opens already filled in, and the request reaches you by WhatsApp, email, Web3Forms or Formspree. There are no payment fees and nothing to run on a server. Many travel businesses work this way: an enquiry, a call, then payment.

A Polaris stay page for a homestay in Leh, with a booking box for check-in and check-out dates, room and guests, and a Request to book button
A stay page's booking box: pick dates and a room, then request.

What’s inside this travel template

  • Three home pages: a tour operator, a stays and camps business, and a local operator in one region
  • Trip and stay finders with filters for region, month, grade and guests
  • Destinations, camping and a journal, each with its own pages
  • Built-in site search that loads only when it’s opened
  • 31 blocks in 68 variants, in light and dark mode
  • Structured data for trips and their departures, stays, destinations and posts

Polaris loads one font file and almost no JavaScript, and serves photos as WebP at the right size for each screen.

Your trips, stays and destinations are plain text files, and the documentation covers every step. Explore the live demo and try the trip finder.