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- Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:03 am
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Ryanair Viilas?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 23976
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 ...
- Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:38 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Towels - colour provided?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12852
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...
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:33 pm
- Forum: Handling rental enquiries
- Topic: If I had a pound for every enquiry for dates already booked
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8500
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 ...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:29 pm
- Forum: Portugal
- Topic: What to pay my cleaning lady
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15573
- Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:24 am
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Locking cupboards - a suggestion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10743
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 ...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:45 pm
- Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
- Topic: Does anyone know any cheap websites where i can advertise
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4260
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...
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:56 pm
- Forum: Website reviews
- Topic: Please feel free to review
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3063
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...
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:57 am
- Forum: Website reviews
- Topic: www.cambalala.com - My new vacation rental website.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4697
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...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:56 pm
- Forum: Portugal
- Topic: What to pay my cleaning lady
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15573
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...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:53 am
- Forum: Bookings
- Topic: online availability calendars
- Replies: 63
- Views: 30565
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'...
- Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:08 am
- Forum: Just starting out
- Topic: Guest Information Packs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24623
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...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:16 pm
- Forum: Managing your property
- Topic: Cleaning the bath
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10144
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...
- Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:04 pm
- Forum: Just starting out
- Topic: Guest Information Packs
- Replies: 20
- Views: 24623
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 ...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:58 pm
- Forum: Non-internet marketing
- Topic: Free sunday times ads..
- Replies: 161
- Views: 74242
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:09 pm
- Forum: Non-internet marketing
- Topic: Free sunday times ads..
- Replies: 161
- Views: 74242
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 ...