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MotoPress Hotel Booking
Great for managing hotels but bad for managing expectations.
GrowingPoor rating
65/100
The plugin offers great features but fails on support and refund honesty.
Active installs
~31,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.7★
65 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+11%
Growing
156 → 173 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.70★
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +11% in the last year
156/day a year ago→173/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayMotoPress Hotel Booking is praised for its lightweight, feature-rich core and good customer service, but many users report poor support, misleading refund policies, and usability or stability issues.
What people like
- +Lightweight and easy to work with, requiring no complex coding
- +Handles seasonal pricing and synchronized calendars reliably
- +Excellent customer service
- +Provides extensive functionality that saves admin time and is easier than WooCommerce alternatives
Common complaints
- −Mobile app displays limited calendar detail, omits booking rules, and has tiny touch targets, making it unsuitable for phone use
- −Support is unhelpful, rude, and often provides only generic article links×5
- −Refund policy is misleading; advertised free trial and 30-day guarantee are not honored×2
- −Plugin is clumsy, overly complex, and difficult to customize without custom CSS×2
- −Recurring bugs appear in new releases, with issues reported since version 4.8 (since 4.8)
- −Security concerns and missing basic settings (e.g., unable to set city)
- −Compatibility problems with WPML
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.70★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.70★
- 20%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-12-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 65 total
Latest reviews · 66 analyzed
- 2026-05-30★★★★★Mobile App is no improvement over using WP mobile appckbooth
- 2026-05-15★★★★★The most professional and intuitive booking system!oftalmolog
- 2026-04-26★★★★★Stable and reliable hotel booking pluginHamza Kwehangana
- 2026-04-18★★★★★Professional Grade Booking Solution!vilanasa
- 2025-11-04★★★★★Misleading “Free Trial” and Appalling Customer Supportrivmedia2650
- 2025-11-04★★★★★No refunds given, check before purchase…aja841-shot
- 2025-06-16★★★★★Not a good pluginbrandonjf
- 2025-03-17★★★★★Not badjeccicajessy1-shot
- 2024-05-06★★★★★bug is in every new versionPablos
- 2024-01-25★★★★★Scam ! – They don't refund, careful guys !ecomlux
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
191
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
190
Prior 7-day baseline
193
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
3,226
Mean release-day peak (30d)
166
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+0.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.83
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
56%
5★ share in analyzed sample
20%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.67 → 3.70★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered