Can I show hotel photos and descriptions on my website, or does the API only give me the name and the price?

Yes, you can show photos and descriptions, because most hotel booking APIs send that information separately from the live prices. The search part of the API returns what is available and what it costs, and a second part of the API returns the hotel content, which usually includes images, a written description, the address, the map location, the star rating and a list of facilities such as a pool, parking or airport shuttle. Your portal pulls the two together so the customer sees a proper hotel page rather than a bare list of names.

How rich that content looks depends on the supplier behind your API. Large chain hotels and popular city properties normally come with plenty of good photos and a full description. Smaller guesthouses and apartments sometimes arrive with only one or two images, a short description, or no photos at all, and there is nothing we can add on your behalf if the supplier has not provided it. Some suppliers also set conditions on how their images and text may be displayed, so it is worth reading that part of your agreement before you start reusing the content elsewhere, for example in adverts or brochures.

If you connect more than one hotel supplier, the same property can arrive with different photos and different wording from each one. The usual approach is to choose one supplier as the main source of content for each hotel so the page stays consistent, no matter which supplier ends up selling the room. Guest reviews and review scores are a separate matter and are often not included, so if you want those on your pages you may need a separate source for them.

A good next step is to ask which content fields your chosen supplier provides, then look at a sample of hotels in the destinations you sell most before you go live.