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Is SKT Cottage the Best WordPress Theme for Vacation Rentals and Country Homes?

If you own a countryside inn, a vacation rental, or a cozy cabin in the woods, then you know your business thrives on charm, comfort, and a sense of escape. But in today’s digital-first world, you need more than a beautiful property—you need a website that captures its magic.

That’s exactly what the SKT Cottage WordPress Theme is built for. Tailored for rustic retreats, holiday homes, and countryside lodges, this theme combines professional design with booking-friendly functionality.

Let’s explore why this could be the perfect theme for your website—and how it can help turn browsers into bookings.

Built for First Impressions That Last

When it comes to vacation rentals, visuals matter. Guests want to feel like they’re already there before they book. The SKT Cottage theme opens with large, captivating image sections, allowing you to spotlight your best photos—whether it’s a log cabin covered in snow or a lakeside view at sunset.

What sets this theme apart is how effortlessly it balances visuals with user experience. Your homepage can include:

Full-width image sliders of the property

An "About the Property" section

Guest testimonials

Booking or availability inquiry buttons

A showcase of local attractions

This not only builds emotional engagement—it builds trust.

Hassle-Free Customization for Every Style of Cottage

From quaint garden cottages to modern eco-lodges, the SKT Cottage theme can adapt to any brand personality. With full compatibility with page builders like Elementor and Gutenberg, you don’t need a developer to design your dream website.

Customize everything:

Fonts and typography for a rustic or elegant look

Color schemes that match your branding or natural environment

Section spacing, layout, and backgrounds

Custom icons for amenities like Wi-Fi, pet-friendly access, or a wood-burning fireplace

Even if you manage multiple properties, you can create unique landing pages for each listing, all under one cohesive site.

Mobile-Optimized for Travelers on the Go

More than 60% of people use mobile devices to plan their trips. If your site isn’t responsive, you’re losing out on bookings. Fortunately, SKT Cottage is fully mobile-optimized.

From image galleries to contact forms, everything adapts perfectly to phones and tablets. Navigation is smooth, buttons are tap-friendly, and content is easy to read.

This ensures guests can learn about your property and book from anywhere—whether they’re at work daydreaming or already on the road.

Easy Booking Integration That Converts

Whether you use a booking plugin like WP Booking System or prefer simple inquiry forms, this theme supports both approaches. You can embed calendars, booking widgets, or pricing tables effortlessly.

Guests can:

Check availability

Submit reservation requests

Get instant confirmation emails

Pay online using secure gateways

This seamless experience increases trust—and conversion rates.

SEO-Ready to Attract Organic Traffic

People search for “cozy cottage for rent near me” or “romantic weekend cabin getaway.” To appear in these search results, your website needs to be SEO-optimized. SKT Cottage has all the essentials:

Clean, structured code for easy indexing

Schema markup for rich results (reviews, business info, FAQs)

Fast-loading performance to reduce bounce rates

SEO plugin compatibility with tools like Yoast or All in One SEO

With proper optimization, your site can attract steady traffic from Google—without spending a dime on ads.

WooCommerce Support for Extra Revenue

Selling local experiences or rental add-ons? The SKT Cottage theme is WooCommerce-compatible, so you can create a shop page to offer:

Guided tours or activities

Food delivery packages

Welcome baskets or souvenirs

Premium cleaning or laundry services

This is a great way to boost per-booking revenue while offering more value to your guests.

Blog to Boost Engagement and Trust

Every host should blog. Why? Because sharing insider travel tips, seasonal updates, and behind-the-scenes content positions you as a helpful, trustworthy expert.

With the Cottage theme’s built-in blog layout, you can easily post:

Local guides (restaurants, attractions, events)

Renovation stories or property updates

Guest reviews and photo galleries

Tips for planning memorable stays

Each post not only builds SEO—it builds a connection with potential guests.

One-Click Demo Import + Reliable Support

Starting from scratch can feel overwhelming, but not with this theme. With one-click demo import, you can install a prebuilt site structure that’s ready to customize.

You’ll also have access to detailed documentation and customer support from the SKT Themes team, who can help resolve any setup issues or design tweaks.

Is the SKT Cottage Theme Right for You?

If your business falls into one of these categories, then Cottage WordPress Theme could be your perfect match:

Vacation cottages or Airbnb hosts

Mountain lodges or lakeside cabins

Bed and breakfasts or farm stays

Eco-retreats or off-grid rentals

Rural boutique hotels or tiny homes

Its charm, flexibility, and booking-friendly features make it a powerful tool to grow your presence and revenue online.

Final Takeaway:

Running a cottage rental is about offering peace, charm, and great memories. But in a competitive market, your website needs to reflect that from the first click. With SKT Cottage, you get a WordPress theme that feels personal, performs professionally, and makes managing your rental business online a breeze.

It’s not just a theme—it’s a hospitality tool designed to help your guests fall in love before they even arrive.

Ready to turn visitors into bookings? Download the SKT Cottage theme today and start creating the online presence your property deserves.

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As Passenger Angst Grows, Japan to Let Some Off Ship, but Fewer Than Hoped

TOKYO — For a moment on Thursday, John and Carol Montgomery thought they might be departing early from the cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama, Japan, where new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed almost daily.

Japan’s health minister said a few categories of passengers could spend the remainder of the two-week quarantine ashore. The Montgomerys thought they qualified because they share a cabin without windows or a balcony and Mr. Montgomery, 68, has diabetes.

Their hopes were quickly dashed. The health minister’s statement, it turned out, had been ambiguous. The captain of the vessel, the Diamond Princess, announced narrower criteria for offshore quarantine: passengers 80 or older with underlying medical conditions or windowless cabins.

“Looks like we’re not going anywhere,” said Ms. Montgomery, 67.

The misunderstanding punctuated what critics call Japan’s bungled communications during the crisis, reinforcing how the nation has been vexed by an epidemiological challenge that grows each day. With more and more of the Diamond Princess 3,400 anxious passengers and crew getting sick — possibly infecting one another — health officials have even raised the possibility of prolonging the quarantine, now set to expire next Wednesday.

Precisely how the coronavirus has been spreading aboard the ship is just one of many unknowns in the affliction’s reach into Japan. The country also announced its first death from the coronavirus, of a woman in her 80s in Kanagawa Prefecture, which includes Yokohama.

The authorities said the woman did not appear to have traveled to China, the center of the epidemic, before falling ill. Her death was the third so far outside mainland China; the others were in the Philippines and Hong Kong.

Japan’s health ministry also announced 44 new coronavirus cases from the ship, raising the total to 218. Counting those from the vessel, total cases in Japan have surpassed 250, the most of any country other than China.

The clumsy messaging aside, the move by the health ministry to begin letting some people off the Diamond Princess was clearly a response to mounting stress on board as the quarantine slogs toward its planned conclusion in less than a week. The step also reflected the particular risk that the virus appears to pose to the elderly.

“People in the ship’s surroundings are kind of in a cesspool of probability of being infected,” said Dr. Peter Katona, an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Updated Feb. 10, 2020

What is a Coronavirus? It is a novel virus named for the crown-like spikes that protrude from its surface. The coronavirus can infect both animals and people, and can cause a range of respiratory illnesses from the common cold to more dangerous conditions like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.

How contagious is the virus? According to preliminary research, it seems moderately infectious, similar to SARS, and is possibly transmitted through the air. Scientists have estimated that each infected person could spread it to somewhere between 1.5 and 3.5 people without effective containment measures.

How worried should I be? While the virus is a serious public health concern, the risk to most people outside China remains very low, and seasonal flu is a more immediate threat.

Who is working to contain the virus? World Health Organization officials have praised China’s aggressive response to the virus by closing transportation, schools and markets. This week, a team of experts from the W.H.O. arrived in Beijing to offer assistance.

What if I’m traveling? The United States and Australia are temporarily denying entry to noncitizens who recently traveled to China and several airlines have canceled flights.

How do I keep myself and others safe? Washing your hands frequently is the most important thing you can do, along with staying at home when you’re sick.

“We don’t really understand the transmission of this virus very well,” he added. “So I think that keeping people in their rooms and letting them out briefly is about as good as you are going to be able to do on a ship, but the psychological impact of that is hard to measure.”

The health minister, Katsunobu Kato, said the government would consider expanding the criteria to include passengers under 80 years old in the coming days.

According to a document distributed to several embassies by Japan’s foreign ministry and seen by The New York Times, the Japanese government is discussing plans to administer coronavirus tests to people aboard the ship in tranches to determine if more can be quarantined onshore. Some passengers have been calling for testing of everyone on board, a step the government has called impractical.

Their psychological stress worsened on Thursday as the health ministry announced the new cases. The authorities have said that a small number of the 218 infected are in serious condition.

“I have worked hard to stay calm, but now it’s getting so much harder,” Sarah Arana, 52, a medical social worker from Paso Robles, Calif., said in a text message. “It appears that we are put at risk daily by staying on the ship.”

Some epidemiologists said it was possible that the bulk of the people receiving diagnoses now had contracted the virus before the quarantine began on Feb. 4. The outbreak has been traced to a man who disembarked from the ship on Jan. 25 in Hong Kong and later tested positive.

For more than a week after his departure, passengers shared buffets, sat close to each other in theater performances and played mahjong on deck.

“The curve you’re seeing is a natural epidemiological wave,” said Dr. Allen Cheng, an infectious disease specialist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. “The first person may have infected a number of people, and those secondary cases have caused tertiary cases, and what we’re seeing now is the natural incubation of those tertiary cases.”

With crew members living and eating in close quarters, the chances for new infections rises the longer everyone stays on the ship. The danger was underlined on Wednesday when the health ministry announced that one of its own officials had been infected after helping to evaluate passengers and crew members for symptoms. The official had been wearing a mask and gloves but not a hazardous materials suit.

“There is a possibility that infections have spread despite the fact that passengers have been isolated on board,” said Mitsuyoshi Urashima, a professor of molecular epidemiology at Jikei University Hospital in Tokyo. “It’s better to let them off, as we don’t know the cause of infection at this stage.”

Passengers were growing concerned that the longer they stayed on board, the longer the quarantine could be extended for passengers who are potentially exposed to confirmed infections.

“The logic and the basis for the quarantine is that if people do not have a fever or show signs of sickness after 14 days, that they don’t have the virus,” Mr. Montgomery, the passenger, said. “But the problem is, on this petri dish of a ship, is that three days prior to the 19th, we may have an interaction with somebody in the hallway or on the deck” who is infected.

On Wednesday, he said, when the couple went out for a prescribed fresh air break, another passenger was coughing in the hallway as they returned to their cabin.

“So this whole thing is based on a false logic,” he said.

In a briefing earlier this week, Masami Sakoi, a health ministry official, said it was possible that people exposed to infected passengers would have to effectively reset the clocks on their quarantine periods.

Ms. Montgomery suggested that the governments of the countries with passengers or crew members on the Diamond Princess should offer to house people in quarantine facilities on land.

“If the U.S. embassy took the Americans off and took us away from here and quarantined and tested us and they did that with every nationality, I think that would be more effective,” she said.

Even so, finding space where such a large number of people could be safely isolated and given proper medical care could be a challenge, especially as Japan is now seeing fresh cases elsewhere. On Thursday, the health ministry announced three new cases, involving a taxi driver and a doctor, in addition to the death from the coronavirus.

“With those waves of new infections every day, that would challenge the most resilient person’s sense of security,” said Benjamin Cowie, an infectious disease physician at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne. “But that’s a very substantial number of people to then try to have to quarantine anywhere on the shore.”

Even with the rising stress, some passengers were making the best of their time trapped on board. Aun Na Tan, 43, an administrator from Australia who is sharing a windowless cabin with her husband, 44, and two teenage children, said they were playing card games and watching movies together while her husband works remotely and her children keep up with homework online.

In such close quarters, Ms. Tan said, “my daughter hops into my bed for a cuddle every now and then. I’m just enjoying the opportunity. They get less and less as she gets older.”

Even some who might be eligible to quarantine off shore said they would stick it out on the ship.

“Luckily, we’re staying in a stateroom that’s slightly larger, so we’re fine with it,” said Masako Ishida, 61, who is traveling with her mother and stepfather, who are in their 80s. “We wouldn’t mind at all if we’re the last ones to disembark, as long as those in need can leave the ship. It would be easier if we stayed here until the 19th and relax.”

Reporting was contributed by Eimi Yamamitsu, Hisako Ueno, Makiko Inoue and Ben Dooley.

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Robot Submarine Searching for EgyptAir Crash Evidence

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Egypt has sent a robot submarine to join the hunt for an EgyptAir plane which crashed in some of the deepest waters of the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday.

Ships and planes scouring the sea north of Alexandria have found body parts, personal belongings and debris from the Airbus 320, but are still trying to locate the black box recorders that could shed light on the cause of Thursday's crash.

Sisi said that underwater equipment from Egypt's offshore oil industry was being brought in to help the search.

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"They have a submarine that can reach 3,000 meters under water," he said in a televised speech. "It moved today in the direction of the plane crash site because we are working hard to salvage the black boxes."

An oil ministry source said Sisi was referring to a robot submarine used mostly to maintain offshore oil rigs. It was not clear whether the vessel would be able to help locate the black boxes, or would be used in later stages of the operation.

Air crash investigation experts say the search teams have around 30 days to listen for pings sent out once every second from beacons attached to the two black boxes. At this stage of the search they would typically use acoustic hydrophones, bringing in more advanced robots later to scan the seabed and retrieve any objects once they have been found.

EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo vanished off radar screens early on Thursday as it entered Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean. The 10 crew and 56 passengers included 30 Egyptian and 15 French nationals.

French investigators say that the plane sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board shortly before it disappeared.

The signals did not indicate what caused the smoke or fire, and aviation experts have not ruled out either deliberate sabotage or a technical fault, but they offered early clues as to what unfolded in the moments before the crash.

"Until now all scenarios are possible," Sisi said in his first public remarks on the crash. "So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario."

The crash was the third blow since October to hit Egypt's travel industry, still reeling from political unrest following the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.

A suspected Islamic State militant group (ISIS) bombing brought down a Russian airliner after it took off from Sharm al-Sheikh airport in late October, killing all 224 people on board, and an EgyptAir plane was hijacked in March by a man wearing a fake suicide belt.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the Sharm al-Sheikh bombing within hours but a purported statement from the group's spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, distributed on Saturday, made no mention of the crash.

Relatives of the victims of the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 react and cry during an absentee funeral mass at the main Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday. Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters

Anguish of relatives

EgyptAir has told relatives of the victims that recovering and identifying bodies from the sea could take weeks, adding to the pain and uncertainty of grieving families.

Samar Ezzedine, 27 and newly wed, was one of the cabin crew on flight 804. Her mother Amal has sat in the lobby of a hotel overlooking Cairo Airport, still waiting for her daughter to come back.

"She is missing, who hosts a funeral for a missing person?" she murmured.

Samar's aunt, Mona, said Amal was reluctant to go home or even move away from the hotel door. "She doesn’t want to believe it... I told her to switch off her phone, but she said: 'What if Samar calls?' "

An EgyptAir union appealed to Sisi to allow death certificates to be issued for the victims, to avoid the usual five-year delay in the case of missing people which leaves relatives in a legal limbo, including over pensions.

In his speech on Sunday, Sisi said the investigation would not be over quickly, but promised it would be transparent.

"This could take a long time but no one can hide these things. As soon as the results are out, people will be informed," he told ministers and parliamentarians in the port city of Damietta.

The October crash devastated Egyptian tourism, a main source of foreign exchange for a country of 80 million people.

Tourism revenue in the first three months of the year plunged by two thirds to $500 million from a year earlier, and the latest incident could crush hopes for a swift recovery.

EgyptAir Chairman Safwat Moslem said the radius of the search zone was 40 nautical miles, but could be expanded. The radius is equivalent to an area of 5,000 square nautical miles (17,000 square km).

A European satellite spotted a 2 km-long oil slick in the Mediterranean, about 40 km (20 nautical miles) southeast of the aircraft's last known position, the European Space Agency said.

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