Lay My Hat

Hi All We signed up with Ryanair a few weeks back and have had 4 enquiries so far, thought we actually had a booking last week but then the lady changed her mind. The main problems are that the availability calendar will only display weeks on a Sat - Sat basis which is ridiculous because people end ...

I'm with Party on the white towels - you KNOW they are clean. Although to be honest, a quick sniff will usually tell you all you need to know about how clean a towel is!! My mum is concerned about people getting their towels mixed up so has sewn coloured thread onto the labels. Whether anyone actual...

Come January next year I shall be emailing all the people who enquired for booked dates to remind them that they need to book early should they want to secure their dates in that lovely apartment they missed out on in 2008....Looked at that way, you could just see them as potential bookers for next ...

Hi Mamacats

Just a thought - you seem to have spelt Quarteira wrong. This will affect your ability to be found on search engines etc....

Cheers
Sonia

What a good idea NeatandPicky, thanks for that! We are lucky enough to have a large storage cupboard next to the underground car park in our complex that our renters wouldn't even be aware was there. But it is a bit annoying having to bring little things back and forth (and it is really creepy down ...

Hi Simon I put a free ad on Travel Library and recently had an enquiry for a week in August (we were already booked unfortunately). Easy to do, you get a nice inbound link for your website and they do quite well in google searches too. You could also try the free listing in the Sunday Times - some L...

Hi Jonny Welcome to a fellow Algarve renter! Having had just a quick look at your website (which is what any prospective guests will do!), I'll just say: Less text, more pics! I believe that when many people are first looking for a place to rent for a beach holiday they are looking for an inviting p...

Hi Raymond Looks great, makes me really want to go there and wasn't even considering a holiday in South Africa! Even thought 'this would be great when we have kids in a few years!' Can I reserve it for a week in 2015?! My SA geography isn't great though so only suggestion would be to say what the ne...

We have a English guy for our cleaning / laundry / meet and greet / transfers. We only 'opened' in October and he won't actually do his first job for us for a couple of weeks, so I can't comment on his standards, but we've met him and chatted on the phone and he seems like a 'top geezer'. He charges...

We use dateblocker and I've found no problems with it at all - better as a link instead of embedded on your website though as it does slow the page down a bit. This is it should you want to take a look: http://www.dateblocker.com/AvailabilityCalendar?PropertyId=4737 Only small snag is that 'pending'...

If your guests want to sit down and read through a book whilst on holiday then they're either weird or there's something wrong with the holiday. They really shouldn't have time Is this because they are so busy reading instruction manuals to find out how to turn the cooker on, visiting the tourist o...

We don't have an enamel bath so can't advise in specific but we get a rough area of limescale build-up in our bath from where a small patch of water sits. Comes off no problem with some appliance descaler - just squirt some on and leave for half an hour. Gets plugholes really shiny too and stains ou...

Hi Paul Welcome to laymyhat - and good luck with your rental! We're currently sorting out our info folder (my husband and I bought our apartment jointly with my mum - she'd written some stuff down after her first visit in October and we've been checking it for 'holes' - we just got back today, so I ...

Hi Clive

Thanks very much for your help, but miraculously my mum managed it on her work PC. No doubt someone else on here will find your tip useful though!
So fingers crossed for some bookings now!

Cheers again!
Sonia

I tried placing an ad with Firefox, Safari and IE5.2 on my Mac with no joy. So I rang the Times and the guy said it won't work on Macs. I pointed out that was a little ironic seeing as they are a publishing company and no doubt use Macs all the time and that it isn't especially hard to get pages to ...