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- Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:55 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Cottage.com or on our own
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7293
It's worth remembering that Cottages also list your property on AirBnb / Booking.com and hundreds of other portals as well. I moved from my local agent who was giving me 87% occupancy each year to Cottages.com for a variety of reasons, booking occupancy (believe it or not) not being one of them. Wh...
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Cottage.com or on our own
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7293
It's worth remembering that Cottages also list your property on AirBnb / Booking.com and hundreds of other portals as well. I moved from my local agent who was giving me 87% occupancy each year to Cottages.com for a variety of reasons, booking occupancy (believe it or not) not being one of them. Wh...
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 6:12 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Cottage.com or on our own
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7293
Cottages/ Hoseasons/ Welsh Cottages yadayada - see my post ( below) in a thread from earlier in the year. The contract you sign with cottages states your property can only be marketed on their site, so by putting it on Airbnb you are, in theory, breaking the agreement. Avoid ! We have two properties...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:49 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Guest booked for 4 adults over Xmas, but 6 turned up!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9065
Had five turn up in a four bed house and took them to task immediately. I was doing an introductory walk around when I noticed so immediately challenged them. It was five lads from the military who probably hadn't expected me to be there or just thought they could take the piss. Once challenged they...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:36 am
- Forum: Managing your guests
- Topic: Fire, misuse leading to extra cleaning..
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7380
Depending on season we sometimes light a fire for their arrival and leave a couple of logs to top it up with. We leave logs, kindling in a store room, an honesty box and ask them to pay a fiver per sack. Since doing this 90% of guests have used the facility which has boosted our income albeit by a t...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:17 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: LESS RENTALS IF WE DON'T ALLOW DOGS?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4972
We were pressed by one rental company to accept dogs as it would lead to more bookings, being new to the business we heeded their advice but received more without pet bookings. We had guests arrive with 2 dogs that were left unattended in the property and caused damage which cost £255 to put right s...
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:47 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Any views on Hoseasons?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3342
Re: Any views on Hoseasons?
Hi, We moved away from Sykes in 2018 due to the lack of care and damage our cottage suffered from their customers. However, local booking agents haven't brought in the same level of bookings so we're thinking of going back to one of the big boys (we don't have enough time free to run this ourselves...