OAR Cottage: designing a guest guide that feels like the stay—calm, curated, and practical.
Location: Garai, Biscay, basque country, spain
Our services: Guide structure & usability, Editorial curation, Copywriting (ES/EN), Google Maps + QR, Editorial design (PDF), and Photography.
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The Challenge
OAR Cottage needed a refined, bilingual guest guide: easy to use on the go, genuinely helpful—without reading like a tourist brochure. The content had to mirror the hotel’s calm Garai setting while offering clear, practical recommendations on food, culture, nature, and txakoli in Biscay and nearby areas.
Our Approach
We created an editorial, sensory-led guide designed for real guest use: concise structure, scannable sections, and a consistent tone throughout. We curated towns, restaurants, beaches, hikes, and wineries with a local-first lens, added practical cues (times, distances, best moments, pairings), and delivered a polished PDF—print- and screen-ready—with a Google Maps QR code for easy navigation.
The Results
A 20-page bilingual guest guide for digital and print use—clear, beautiful, and immediately actionable. OAR Cottage now has a branded resource that elevates the guest experience, supports the front desk with ready recommendations, and extends the hotel's presence into the surrounding region through a cohesive editorial lens.
Team:
Ester | Sensory Travel founder | Creative direction, editorial concept, copywriting (ES/EN), editorial design, and photography.
TESTIMONIAL
"We needed a guest guide that felt like OAR Cottage itself: calm, curated, and genuinely useful — not a list of tourist tips. The Sensory Travel team understood that immediately. The result is a bilingual guide our guests actually read: towns, restaurants, hikes, txakoli wineries — all selected with a real sense of Biscay and what kind of traveller we receive. They translated the spirit of OAR Cottage into something tangible, practical, and beautiful. It supports our team, it surprises our guests, and it has become part of what we offer."